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Bardstown, KY Named Among Top Ten 'Best Southern Small Towns'
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Bardstown, KY Named Among Top Ten ‘Best Southern Small Towns’
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USA TODAY and 10Best readers say The Bourbon Capital of the World is No. 3
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Bardstown, KY – June 2015 / Newsmaker Alert / Bardstown, KY, the Bourbon Capital of the World, has done it again: “The Most Beautiful Small Town in America” has been named one of the “10 Best Southern Small Towns,” as chosen by readers of USA TODAY and 10Best. See contest results here: www.10Best.com/awards/travel/Best-Southern-Small-Town.
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Bardstown, KY Named Among Top Ten ‘Best Southern Small Towns’
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Landing in the number three spot on the list, Bardstown was cited for its abundance of bourbon distilleries; there are now six, including Barton 1792, Willett Distillery, Heaven Hill, Maker’s Mark, Jim Beam and Four Roses’ second campus – the latter four on the famed Kentucky Bourbon Trail®. A seventh distiller, the Bardstown Bourbon Company, will open in Bardstown in 2016 and offer a destination experience with a culinary dimension.

“Underage or tee totaling visitors, however, will find there’s still plenty to do, including shopping, golf and historic attractions,” the write-up notes.

The recognition comes on the heels of Bardstown leading TheCultureTrip.com’s list of the “10 Most Beautiful Towns in Kentucky. It was ranked among “the best of the best” in Fodor’s Second Annual List of “America’s Best Small Towns” and selected by AARP as one of its “10 Best Small Towns.” The Kentucky Bourbon Festival, held annually in September in Bardstown, was ranked among “Kentucky’s 10 Best Summer Events: Art Exhibitions to Food Festivals” by TheCultureTrip.com and Bardstown’s Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History was chosen as Whisky Magazines 2014 “Visitor Attraction of the Year.”

Additionally, readers of Travel + Leisure chose Bardstown as one of “America’s Favorite Towns,” acknowledging it has one of “America’s Most Beautiful Town Squares,” and Rand McNally/USA TODAY named Bardstown the “Most Beautiful Small Town in America” in 2012.

Bardstown’s distilleries and major attractions such as the Broadway-style musical, “The Stephen Foster Story,” My Old Kentucky Dinner Train, Kentucky Railway Museum and the Civil War of the Western Theatre, plus its shopping, dining and 17 bed and breakfast inns add to the luster of this award-winning destination. Come see why readers of USA TODAY and 10Best and lots of other publications and outlets say Bardstown is the best. www.VisitBardstown.com

Media Contact:
Dawn Przystal, Vice President
800-638-4877 x 114
Bardstown-Nelson County Tourist & Convention Commission

Photo: Bardstown, KY, is America’s No. 3 Best Southern Small Town.
Credit: Bardstown-Nelson County Tourist & Convention Commission

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About 10Best.com
10Best.com provides users with original, unbiased, and experiential travel content of top attractions, things to see and do, and restaurants for top destinations in the U.S. and around the world. The core of the site’s uniqueness is its team of local travel experts: a well-traveled and well-educated group who are not only experts in their fields - and their cities - but discriminating in their tastes. These local experts live in the city they write about so the content is constantly updated. In 2012, 10Best.com averaged more than 700,000 monthly unique visitors generating approximately 28 million page views. It was acquired by USA TODAY in January of 2013. 

ABOUT USA TODAY
USA TODAY is a multi-platform news and information media company. Founded in 1982, USA TODAY’s mission is to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation. Through its unique visual storytelling, USA TODAY delivers high-quality and engaging content across print, digital, social and video platforms. An innovator of news and information, USA TODAY reflects the pulse of the nation and serves as the host of the American conversation – today, tomorrow and for decades to follow. USA TODAY, the nation’s number one newspaper in print circulation with an average of more than 1.6 million daily, and USATODAY.com, an award-winning newspaper website launched in 1995, reach a combined 6.6 million readers daily. USA TODAY is a leader in mobile applications with more than 16 million downloads on mobile devices. USA TODAY is owned by Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI).

About Bardstown, KY
Located in the heart of Kentucky Bourbon Country and situated at the trailhead of the famed Kentucky Bourbon Trail®, Bardstown is more familiarly known as the “Bourbon Capital of the World.” It is home to five distilleries, including Barton 1792 and Willett Distillery, and these three Kentucky Bourbon Trail distilleries: Heaven Hill, Maker’s Mark and Jim Beam. Major attractions include the outdoor musical, “The Stephen Foster Story,” My Old Kentucky Home State Park, the highly regarded Civil War Museum of the Western Theatre, My Old Kentucky Dinner Train, The Kentucky Railway Museum and Whisky Magazines Visitor Attraction of the Year – the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History. Additionally, Bardstown has four 18-hole golf courses, three wineries, two haunted tours and numerous religious attractions. Fodor picked Bardstown as one of “America’s Best Small Towns” and AARP named it one of its “10 best small towns.” It led TheCultureTrip.com’s list of the “10 Most Beautiful Towns in Kentucky” and was named the “Most Beautiful Small Town in America” in the Rand McNally/USA Today 2012 “Best of the Road” contest. Bardstown landed in the top 20 of “America’s Favorite Towns” by Travel + Leisure||which also recognized it as having one of “America’s Most Beautiful Town Squares.” In 2013, Bardstown was designated a certified Kentucky Cultural District, one of only six Kentucky cities to achieve this honor. www.facebook.com/BardstownKY

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