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15 Best Things to Do in Henderson (KY)

The seat of the eponymous county, Henderson is an historic city on a sweeping bend of the Ohio River, looking across to Indiana. In the 1810s when Henderson was a frontier town, the ornithologist and painter John James Audubon (1785-1851) resided here, at a transitional period in his life that inspired him to work at …

Clinging to the southern edge of the fabled World Capital of Gambling, the city of Henderson has garnered a reputation as something of a more laid-back, suburban alternative to Sin City and the lights of the Vegas Strip. Its neighborhoods sit nestled between the rocky rises and towering hoodoos of the River Mountains and Sloan …