Buffalo Trace Distillery has partnered with Kentucky River Tours to offer boat tours this summer. Tours start at the Buffalo Trace Distillery Gift Shop, and will then shuttle to Buffalo Trace’s on-site boat dock where guests will embark the river tour.
This unique partnership will be one-of-a-kind, as currently no other bourbon distillery offers a boat tour.
Following a brief safety talk, the 45-minute tour of the Kentucky River’s Pool 3 will focus on the history of the river and its impacts on the bourbon industry as a whole. Guests will see the river-side of the Distillery as well as the sights and sounds of the Kentucky River.
The employees at Buffalo Trace Distillery submitted names for the tour boat. Once the name submissions have been collected, four of the best contenders will be put to a vote on the Canoe Kentucky Facebook page for the public to decide. On July 29th, the boat was named Trace of Kentucky.
The vessel in which tours will travel is a USCG inspected 28-foot Carolina Skiff, set up as an 18-passenger tour boat. The boat’s open design is complete with a ¾ roof and open-view railing which will allow for a great view of the river.
Kentucky River Tours operates tours Tuesdays through Sundays, weather permitting, through December. All reservations and tour bookings for the river tour are being handled here.
Tickets for the River Tour can be purchased for $14 per person. A portion of each ticket sale will be donated to Woods and Waters, a local non-profit dedicated to protecting and preserving the lower Kentucky River watershed.
