Community Information

Again, Forbes ranked Bowling Green among the top 20 on their 2009 list of Best Small Places For Business And Careers and in 2007, National Geographic Adventure magazine named Bowling Green one of the 50 Best Places to Live + Play. See what Bowling Green and Southcentral Kentucky Have to Offer You!

Location

The Bowling Green/Warren County Regional Airport has two runways equipped for nighttime flying. Bowling Green is conveniently located next to Interstate 65, and is only an hour drive from the Nashville International Airport in Tennessee and a two-hour drive fromLouisville International Airport in Kentucky.

For more community information, see the City Of Bowling Green web site.

Attractions

All Corvettes are produced at the GM Corvette Assembly Plant in Bowling Green. The National Corvette Museum is open daily for tours and displays over 70 Corvettes and prototypes that did not make it to production.

According to Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, Lost River in Bowling Green is the shortest and deepest river in the world. With a rich history, the Lost River Cave and Valley facility offers boat float tours, interpretive nature tours, and festivals.

The Bowling Green Hot Rods, Bowling Green’s professional baseball team, begin their first season April 2009. The newly constructed stadium is located downtown and will accommodate up to 4,500 spectators.

The most well known and the world’s longest cave, Mammoth Cave, is a 40 minute drive north of Bowling Green. Other spectacular caves include Diamond Caverns, Kentucky Caverns, and Hidden River Cave & American Cave Museum.

Please visit the Bowling Green Area Convention & Visitors Bureau web site for information on other local attractions.

Recreation

In total, the city and county have 42 parks, ranging from more than 200 acres to half an acre. Area parks have features such as lighted tennis courts and ball fields, play structures, walking/jogging trails, and Disc Golf courses.

The city of Bowling Green features two 9-hole golf courses and one 18-hole golf course. Private 18-hole courses include The Club at Olde Stone, in Bowling Green, and Kenny Perry’s Country Creek golf course, in Franklin.

Local public water parks, Russell Sims Aquatic Center and Beech Bend Park’s Splash Lagoon, feature large swimming pools, slides, diving boards and other attractions.

The Medical Center 10k Classic is held each fall in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The “race for everyone” has been held every year since 1980 and continues to draw people of all ages and fitness levels.

Education

Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green is part of the statewide university and community college system. The university sits on a hilltop and has 18,000 students and 66 major buildings.

In the Warren County Public School District, the student performance scores average significantly higher than State and National indices. The student/teacher ratio is 17-to-1 in Bowling Green and 18-to-1 in Warren County.

Several local private schools are available for grades K-8 and K-12. For more information, please see this list of schools and web sites.

According to an article published December 2008 in Bowling Green Daily News, U.S. News and World Report released a survey ranking Bowling Green High School as one of the top in the nation.

Libraries

The Warren County Public Library system offers a new main library, two branches, and a mobile unit. 

The Arts

The Capital Arts Center is located in a renovated 1930’s vaudeville house in historic downtown Bowling Green, features two art galleries, and an 840-seat theatre.

Kentucky Repertory Theatre at Horse Cave is home to Kentucky’s Professional Festival Theatre and is nationally known for its excellence in production.

The Phoenix Theater, founded in 1987, is a professional theatre company located in historic downtown Bowling Green.

Orchestra Kentucky of Bowling Green, The new Bowling Green Chamber Orchestra offers concert series sure to delight any music lover.

Shopping/Retail

The Greenwood Mall in Bowling Green has four department stores, over 100 specialty shops, and a newly renovated food court.

National chains stores in Bowling Green include Wal-Mart, Target, Lowe’s, Home Depot, Barnes & Noble, Kroger, and Kohl’s.

Bowling Green is only an hour drive from Nashville, Tennessee which offers several major malls, including the Mall at Green Hills and Opry Mills, out-door shopping malls, and clothing boutiques.