Rough River State Park - Falls of Rough, KY

Tasted better than it looked

It’s a fairly short trip to Rough River, through some serious horse country.  We drove by huge estates and beautifully manicured stud farms.  I thought it might be nice to visit a bourbon distillery.  There was a sign for Woodford Reserve Distillery, of course, it was fifteen miles away, but we managed to drive down some beautiful tree lined lanes by miles of horse pastures.  It seemed more a place for a surrey ride than for an RV but you take what you got.  The distillery was lovely, we weighed the options of the distillery tour, but in the end opted for a nice lunch and a bottle of Kentucky’s finest. We won’t tell them that we’re going to make BBQ sauce with it.

Oops! Should have taken the photo before eating it!

There is no campground at Rough River, instead, we have a room in the lodge.  Maybe not quite the room that you might picture as a room at Rough River Lodge...think more Motel 6, but it works. Dinner is Bib Lettuce with a cucumber, cream cheese dressing and then Hot Browns and succotash, an open face ham sandwich with mornay sauce and a tomato slice, with some bacon.  Desert was bourbon bread pudding.  All in all, a nice meal.