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Attractions near Owensboro

A garden to see in Owensboro: Western Kentucky Botanical Garden

A typical year brings about 116K visitors to Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial. Only one place to visit is inside Owensboro, but 8 more are within 40 miles. They include 3 museums, a garden and a theme park. Go 58 mi out for Mammoth Cave National Park.

Attractions nearby
11
within 60 miles
The big one
58 mi
Mammoth Cave National Park
National park units
2
parks & monuments
Big draws
1
100K+ Wikipedia readers a year
National Park · 58 mi southeast

Mammoth Cave National Park

U.S. national park in Kentucky.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

The map

The places, mapped

To the northwest is where most of the 8 lie.

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Orange: Owensboro. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors

Everything nearby

Place after place

It starts in town with one place and goes on to 10 within 60 miles.

Angel Mounds

Ancient site · 22 mi northwest · read 13K times a year on Wikipedia

Indiana, a Native American complex of earthworks and a National Historic Landmark.

Towns near it → · Wikipedia

The places inside Owensboro lead. The rest are ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places come first and the local favorites follow.

Parks and trails in Owensboro → · Owensboro’s history →

Sources: National Park Service · ski areas © OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata · Wikipedia readership · photos via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credits

Western Kentucky Botanical Garden: Steve Ryan from Groveland, California, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Mammoth Cave National Park: Willis Thomas Lee, Public domain · USS LST-325: Wikideas1, CC0 · Holiday World & Splashin' Safari: Holiday World & Splashin' Safari, Public domain · Angel Mounds: Heironymous Rowe (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Hoosier National Forest: US Forest Service, Public domain · Ford Center: Nyttend, Public domain · Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial: Rene Sturgell, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mesker Park Zoo and Botanic Garden: Randella (talk), CC BY 3.0 · Reitz Home Museum: Nyttend, Public domain · Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science: Nyttend, Public domain

Know a spot visitors miss?Locals know the overlook without the crowds and the diner the tour buses skip.
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