Horse Farm Tours Near Louisville
Experience the BEST farm tours here in the Farm Tour Capital of Kentucky!
The Best Kentucky Horse Farm Tours & Then Some!
From April – October, Oldham County, Kentucky is so much more than race horse farms, but we have those, too! Come for our popular horse farm tours near Louisville, but learn about other animals while you’re here. Alpaca, bison, sheep, piglets, and dairy cows call Oldham Farm Tours home – don’t miss out on seeing them! We have horse farm tours like Lexington, KY, but we conveniently located just 20 minutes from downtown Louisville! 24-hour notice is needed and you will book directly with the farms listed below!
We offer 13 touring farms and gardens 20 minutes from downtown Louisville on I-71, and 70 minutes from Kentucky’s Ark Encounter. Our educational animal farm tours allow you to be as involved and as interactive as you want to be on your farm tour! Want to love on our animals? You can! Want to learn, but watch from afar? Yes, you will love the tour, too!
Book your tour directly with the farms below, THEN bring your sweetie to milk a cow or your grand kids to hug on our alpaca or lambs. Come to Oldham County to TOUCH a RACE HORSE! All of our farm tours near Louisville offer more than you bargain for. See modern art peppered throughout the fields and woods (and trees!) of Woodland bison farm. Learn to shear alpaca and make a take-home souvenir with their wool. Learn to make artisan cheese from a French cheesemaker at Harvest Home Dairy. You will LOVE our fun, educational farm tours! We have the best Kentucky horse farm tours and more!
Come be part of your loved one’s experience, and they will cherish the memories made with YOU in the Farm Tour Capital of Kentucky. Memories that can be made in just one place in Kentucky – Only in Oldham.
Groups of 8+, please contact the Tourism Office for FREE assistance planning your visit!
Oldham’s Animal Farm Tours
Dropseed Native Plant Nursery & Farm
Goshen, KY (Exit 14 of I-71) – Directions provided with reservation.
(502) 439-9033 – Visit Website – Send Email
FARM TOURS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY (April – October)
Dropseed Native Plant Nursery produces native plants and seed for restoration and home landscaping projects. Visitors can tour the gardens, greenhouses, and seed production plots. Bonus Tour: While on site, see the farming activities at Field 51 Produce, a farm sharing the same property producing vegetables, chickens and sheep.
Harvest Moon Dairy Farm & Cheese
Crestwood, KY (Exit 14 or 22 off I-71) – Directions provided with reservation.
(502) 817-3165 – Website – Email
FARM TOURS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY (April – October)
Best Tour Time: 3-3:30pm.
All Tours: $10 per person. $60 tour minimum.
Individuals call to be combined with others for per-person savings!
Tour Length: 1.5 Hours
Age: 6+
At Harvest Moon Farm and Dairy, they love what they do, and it shows! They enjoy teaching about life as a working dairy and love showing the process of how their milk gets to your favorite grocery! Tours are educational and offer hands-on experiences such as making corn meal or ice cream, milking and feeding the animals. Tours may include the rest of the farm showing how to grow, harvest, and store crops; use conservation practices to protect the environment; or any seasonal farm activity. Fully customizable tours, means you can see exactly what interests you and your group. Come at milking time and get a real taste of farm life. Feed the cows, maybe even milk one, or bottle-feed the baby calves. Outdoor walking tours are offered (weather permitting) or your tour can include a ride on the tractor pulled wagons.
Hermitage Farm (Historic Thoroughbred Farm)
Goshen, KY (Exit 14 off 1-71) – Directions provided with reservation.
(502) 398-9289 – Visit Our Hermitage Farm Page for ALL things Hermitage!
FARM TOUR TICKETS ONLINE (April – October) – Farm Tour Tickets & Times HERE!
“Oldham Lunch on the Farm” Package Only available thru the Oldham Tourism Office: Package includes Hermitage Horse Farm Tour with Picnic Lunch & Bourbon Tasting! $65 (March-October, Tues-Sat) Experience lasts 11:30am – 2:30pm and must be booked through Oldham Tourism only
Individual & Group Tours: Thoroughbred Farm Tour $20 (March-October)
Sport Horse Tour $20 (March-October)
“Bucket List Tour” with KY Derby Museum $100pp (May-Oct., starts at the KY Derby Museum, shuttle to Hermitage, then shuttle back to the Museum for your car)
Tour Length: minutes
Age: Any
Once visited by Queen Elizabeth II, Kentucky’s historic Hermitage Farm is a working thoroughbred horse operation, farm-to-table restaurant, and botanical garden, nestled in the rolling hills of Oldham County, Kentucky near Louisville. Hermitage invites you to explore the stories of the people who built their homes and a thriving horse-breeding operation here as you tour the property’s beautiful 1835 mansion and outbuildings on our History and Hermitage Tour. Get a closer look into the inner workings of Kentucky’s famed racehorse farms on the Thoroughbred Tour, or experience the excitement of Combined Carriage Driving and get up close and personal with a different type of equestrian athlete on our Sport Horse Tour. Now offering the “Kentucky Bucket List Tour” that starts with a tour of the Kentucky Derby Museum! Check out the “Oldham Lunch on the Farm” Package offered through the Oldham County Tourism office for those not wanting to include a tour of the Derby Museum!
Enjoy some traditional Kentucky hospitality on our Mint Julep Experience or Bourbon Experience. A unique dining venue housed in a converted historic horse stable, Barn8 at Hermitage Farm is a new farm-to-table restaurant open Wednesday-Sunday 5pm-10pm.
Highpointe Farm Training Center
La Grange, KY (Exit 22 off 1-71) – Directions provided with reservation.
(502) 222-6070 – Website
FARM TOURS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY (April – November)
Individual Tours (under 10 people): $30 – $55 per person. Purchase Tickets Online Above
Tour Length: 1 Hour
Have you ever wondered what the inner workings of the Thoroughbred Racing industry looked like? Join us for a farm tour and experience an access-all-areas view of our 235 acre working Thoroughbred Race Horse Training Facility! See current Thoroughbred Race Horses train on our 6 furlong dirt track, walk the barns, and see the horses and their teams of grooms and trainers getting ready for their next race! Get up close and personal with retired Race Horses and learn about the history of the industry and HighPointe! This is a walking farm tour, please wear appropriate clothing and footwear. We are happy to provide the tour via. golf cart for those who require extra assistance.
Second Stride Retired Horse Farm (Nonprofit)
Prospect, KY (Exit 14 off 1-71) – Directions provided with reservation.
(502) 241-8440 – Website
FARM TOURS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY (April – October)
Individual Tours (under 10 people): $23 per person. Purchase Tickets Online Above
Tour Length: 1 Hour
Come see firsthand how these special thoroughbred horses start down the path to new careers after racing! This HANDS-ON informative tour will highlight the kings and queens of Kentucky race heritage while they are getting a new lease on life! You will be able to get up close and personal with them and see some spectacular bloodlines in action! At Second Stride, there are many $500,000+ earners and sons and daughters of racing legends like Storm Cat, Tapit who come start new jobs here. Be sure to take lots of pictures to share with your friends as all of the horses are adoptable and you may help spread the news to find a home for a horse-in-waiting! You will get to take a special momento home with you to remember your experience here!
Second Stride is a 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt, non-profit organization providing professional rehabilitation, retraining, and placement for retired thoroughbred racehorses in qualified homes so that they may reach their full potential in a productive second career.
Woodland Farm
La Grange, KY (Exit 22 off 1-71) – Directions provided with reservation.
(502) 222-7051 – Website – Email
FARM TOURS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY (April – October; first Thurs/month)
Individual Tours (under 10 people): $12 per person (only 1st Thurs each month)
Group Tours (10+ people): $12 per person. Any weekday with reservation & pre-payment.
Tour Length: 1.5 Hours
Farm Store: The Farm’s sustainably-raised bison, pork, eggs, and produce can be purchased Tuesday-Friday from 8am to 4pm.
Age: Any
3-Part Educational Tour Includes (with gorgeous views of the Ohio River):
Section 1 – Pasture raised bison and laying hens. You ‘ll visit the main bison herd and hear the benefits of intensive rotational grazing. You’ll also explore their mobile coop and hear about the role pastured chickens play in pest reduction and fertilization.
Section 2 – Horticulture. You ‘ll head to the greenhouse and gardens to learn about raising produce without synthetic fertilizer or chemicals. They’ll also explain the plant production systems currently in place.
Section 3 – Pasture raised heritage hogs. Finally, the tour will head down to the river bottoms to see how hogs being raised alongside their feed sources helps reduce cost while improving meat quality.
TRF Sanctuary Farm at Chestnut Hall (Retired Racehorses)
Prospect, KY (Exit 14 of I-71) – Directions provided with reservation
(859) 963-1004 – Visit Website (Pre-Purchase Tickets) TICKETS: $23 per person
FARM TOURS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY (April – October)
Meet 10 retired thoroughbred racehorses who are living out their days in peace in the beauty of the Chestnut Hall Farm. Guests will be greeted at the Barn at Chestnut Hall where they will learn about the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF) and the Thoroughbred Aftercare industry that cares for these majestic equine athletes when their racing careers are done.
The TRF tour guide will lead our guests to visit three pastures around the farm where they will have the opportunity to interact with the horses and experience the tranquility of “horses being horses”. The herd at Chestnut Hall ranges in age from 16 to 22 years old and they love meeting new people and having their photos taken. Each horse at Chestnut Hall is an Ambassador for the 500 horses cared for by the TRF and each horse has a story to tell! The tour will conclude on the porch of the historic farmhouse at Chestnut Hall, overlooking the horses and inspiring guests to learn more and visit again soon
Windy Meadows Horse Farm
La Grange, KY (Exit 22 off 1-71) – Directions provided with reservation.
(502) 222-0056 – Groups of 8+ Booked through Oldham Tourism Only
FARM TOURS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY (May – October)
Group Tours ONLY (8+ people) booked through Oldham County Tourism
Tour Length: 1 Hour
Age: Any
Horse lovers of all ages will enjoy the stories about life on the Windy Meadows farm seen and told through the eyes of its animals. This fabulous horse farm tour showcases horses of ALL breeds and tells the story of each gorgeous one. You will learn the REAL story about living the life being part of the Kentucky horse industry…not just about racing! Come see this Hallmark® film favorite! You ‘ll recognize this horse farm from Hallmark ‘s latest movies, “The Ultimate Legacy” series and “J.L. Ranch.” Not only is Windy Meadows a film favorite that you’ll recognize, you can also meet the characters of owner, Ellie Troutman’s book, “The Tails of Windy Meadows.” Saddlebreds, thoroughbreds, friesians, race horses, and all are found here at Windy Meadows!
