Kentucky Travel: Get Ready for Your Vacation to Kentucky: Prepare for your trip to Kentucky.

There are numerous state parks in Kentucky where you may go boating, fishing, hiking, and other outdoor activities. The eastern part of the state is home to the Daniel Boone National Forest, which spans hundreds of thousands of acres. A few of the many attractions are Native American burial sites in the western lowlands where the Ohio and Mississippi rivers meet, the Cumberland Gap (where Daniel Boone led the first pioneer settlers), mansions, horse ranches, and bourbon distilleries in the middle Bluegrass region. Naturally, Kentucky is known as the "Bluegrass State." If you're in the horse-farming region close to Lexington in the early spring, the sea of tiny blooms on a field of Kentucky bluegrass has a bluish-purple color. The bluegrass grows in a dense carpet.Thoroughbred racehorses thrive in the area's limestone-based soil because it is rich in calcium and phosphates.