Pour your own custom candle at the candle bar inside Commonwealth Candle's Gaslight Square shop.

A Bardstown Road art and craft studio with weekly classes in miniatures, knitting, sewing and paper arts, plus open crafting and kids days.

A Middletown quilt shop offering sewing and quilting classes, plus longarm machine rentals.

Paint your own pottery at the Paristown home of Louisville Stoneware, a pottery maker since 1815.

A Butchertown Tour & Taste behind the scenes of Bourbon Barrel Foods' soy sauce microbrewery and smokehouse, ending with a tasting.

A St. Matthews pool hall and bar with billiards tables and live music.

A Middletown-area bar with three sand volleyball courts, live music and a dance floor.

Play mini golf, then stay for tiki drinks and live music at this Story Avenue tiki bar and cantina.

Bowl on four professional lanes at this Prohibition-themed speakeasy off the Omni Louisville lobby.

A sprawling Jeffersontown arcade bar packed with classic and modern games, plus beer, bourbon and grub.

A Germantown live music venue hosting local and national acts, with a vintage arcade and a kitchen.

A Norton Commons studio offering Pilates, yoga and barre classes.

Kentucky's first Black-owned bourbon distillery, offering weekend grain-to-glass tours and tastings.

A public art trail along the riverwalk honoring Kentucky's enslaved people, including the "In Our Elders' Footprints" installation.

A small Main Street park marking the site of Fort Nelson, the 1780s Revolutionary-era fort.

A riverfront plaza above the Ohio River at the foot of Fifth Street, next to the Kentucky Center.

A dense native microforest planted in downtown's Founders Square, open to the public.

A downtown civic square across from Louisville Metro Hall.

Kentucky's professional opera company, staging its 2026–27 season at the Brown Theatre and the Kentucky Center.

Louisville's professional ballet company, whose 2026–27 season includes Frankenstein, The Nutcracker and Carmen.

A historic Broadway theater run by the Kentucky Center, home to Kentucky Opera and Louisville Ballet performances.

Churchill Downs' downtown historical racing gaming venue on Fourth Street.

A Whiskey Row tasting room for Mahogany Fox Spirits that was licensed in 2026.

A small Germantown neighborhood park.

The namesake neighborhood park of Shelby Park, on East Oak Street.

A small Louisville craft distillery near Paristown.

A Paristown concert hall hosting touring bands, comedians and events.

Louisville's first public market, with permanent food and shop vendors Tuesday–Sunday and weekend pop-up vendors.

A state park in eastern Louisville with athletic fields, trails and an archery range.

A large eastern Jefferson County Metro park that also holds the Long Run Golf Course.

A Parklands of Floyds Fork park with hiking trails and open meadows on Louisville's east side.

A public Metro Parks golf course next to Charlie Vettiner Park.

A large Metro park off Mary Dell Lane with disc golf, ball fields, a dog run, fishing, walking paths and sledding hills.

A Sunday-afternoon farmers market in the Rainbow Blossom St. Matthews lot, held weekly through late November.

A Saturday-morning farmers market at Beargrass Christian Church, 8 a.m.–noon, May through September.

A historic estate and gardens on Lexington Road, run as "Louisville's Estate Garden."

A riverside Metro park on River Road with open meadows, trails and a dog run along the Louisville Loop.

A former meatpacking plant turned arts complex with artist studios, galleries, shops and event spaces.

A community music school founded in 1954, on Frankfort Avenue since 1971.

A Louisville flamenco dance company and school offering classes and performances.

A Baxter Avenue craft distillery offering tours, tastings and bourbon experiences.

A small Metro Parks green space in the Highlands.

A wooded Metro park next to the Louisville Zoo, with a dog run and walking trails.

A small Cherokee Triangle neighborhood park.

A Highlands Metro park off Douglass Boulevard, home to the Douglass Community Center.

An Olmsted-designed park with open lawns, ball fields and tennis courts, next to Cherokee Park.

A public Metro Parks golf course set in Olmsted's Cherokee Park.

A huge former limestone mine beneath the city offering tram tours, underground ziplining and ropes courses, plus seasonal light shows.

Louisville's state zoo, with animals from around the world, a gorilla sanctuary and seasonal events.

An 1810s historic home offering docent-led tours Tuesday through Saturday, seasonally closing in late December.

A Payne Street youth and adult theatre school and performance company, now part of StageOne Family Theatre after their 2024 merger.

An Irish Hill concert venue hosting touring and local bands.

A cat café where visitors can sip coffee and play with adoptable cats; closed Mondays.

A Sunday farmers market in the North Village Market Cottages, noon to 3 p.m. through November 1 in 2026.

A Norton Commons art gallery on Meeting Street, open Tuesday through Saturday afternoons.

A private, unstaffed golf-simulator club with two TrackMan bays and a lounge for year-round indoor play.

A vintage motorcycle museum on Taylorsville Road, open by appointment only.

An adventure park in Jeffersontown with go-karts and axe throwing.

Jeffersontown's multi-use trail network for walking, jogging, cycling and skating, planned to span 4.5 to 5 miles when complete; the city posts a map of finished segments.

A neighborhood city park in Jeffersontown.

A Jeffersontown city park with a splash park, playground and baseball and softball fields.

The city's free local-history museum on Watterson Trail, open weekdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

A Louisville Metro park in Middletown along Cedardale Road.

A City of Middletown park on Old Shelbyville Road.

A small museum on historic Main Street telling Middletown's centuries-old story, open Wednesday through Saturday.

A family bowling center with open and cosmic bowling, leagues, parties and a bar and grill.

A 24-acre St. Matthews city park tucked behind Shelbyville Road Plaza.

The city's 45-acre community park just off Shelbyville Road.

A 28-acre St. Matthews city park whose paved walking and jogging trails wind through woods along and over Beargrass Creek.

A small Schnitzelburg park with a playground, community garden, gazebo, walking path and picnic tables.

Butchertown's landmark church, founded in 1866 and rebuilt in 1885, with 175-foot twin spires added in 1905–06.

A 59-acre riverfront Metro park known for its cyclocross course and Ohio River views.

A small Butchertown park with a gravel walking loop, playground, basketball half-court and picnic areas.

A hands-on, bartender-led mixology class venue in NuLu where groups shake up their own cocktails.

A NuLu working distillery and tasting bar from Nashville Barrel Company, with guided tastings, single-barrel selections and bottle sales.

Chicken Cock Whiskey's NuLu brand home, with a sipping room, a retail gallery and an evening speakeasy called The Coupe.

A modern working distillery in NuLu offering reservation-only tours of about an hour for groups of up to eight, plus exhibits and a tasting room.

A Louisville tour company based at the Omni Louisville, running bourbon and Kentucky tours.

The Archdiocese of Louisville's history center, steps from the Cathedral of the Assumption.

The University of Louisville's downtown gallery for visual arts, on East Main near Whiskey Row.

A Louisville professional theater company that performs at the Henry Clay Theatre downtown.

Louisville's LGBTQ+ theater company, staging its season in the intimate 144-seat Henry Clay Theatre. The 2026–27 season runs from September 2026 through June 2027.

A downtown concert and event hall on West Jefferson Street with room for about 2,500 standing guests.

A 900-capacity concert hall on Fourth Street that hosts touring bands and DJs.

A covered entertainment district on Fourth Street packed with bars and restaurants, hosting concerts and themed events throughout the year.

Vermont rye maker WhistlePig's Louisville brand home, opened in late 2025, with an immersive whiskey experience, a lobby bar and a retail store.

A Whiskey Row tasting room for Owensboro's Green River Distilling, opened in 2025, with bourbon flights, cocktails and fill-your-own-bottle experiences.

The Bardstown Bourbon Company's Whiskey Row tasting room, with interactive tastings, a create-your-own-blend experience, cocktails and a shop.

A full working distillery on East Main offering daily 60-minute Signature Tours plus deeper Innovation and Art of the Finish tastings. Book ahead; reservations open about three months out.

An arts school in Norton Commons offering lessons and classes.

A gallery of fine art photography on Meeting Street.

A photography studio and gallery in Norton Commons.

A Saturday-morning farmers market at the Jeffersontown Pavilion, running from late April through October.

A city park in Jeffersontown honoring veterans, with open space and walking paths.

Kentucky's first state nature preserve, a 170-acre farm with trails and a 1785 homestead with historic outbuildings.

A bowling and entertainment center in Jeffersontown.

A Parklands of Floyds Fork park with trails, a fishing lake, a community garden and picnic areas on the site of a former distillery.

A nonprofit arts and performance center in Clifton hosting concerts, classes and community events.

A historic Italianate house in Crescent Hill, preserved by a nonprofit and used for community events and gatherings.

A public nine-hole Metro Parks golf course in Crescent Hill.