![]() Hotels located near Gate 4 - Holiday Inn, Country Inn, Ramada, Super 8, and Hilton. Turn right onto Crittenden Drive and follow the signs to Gate 2. We recommend entering the facility via Gate 2 by going South/West on Phillips Lane towards Crittenden Drive. Hotels located near Gate 1 - Crowne Plaza, Howard Johnson, Courtyard Louisville, Springhill Suites, Roadway, Residence Inn, and Hampton Inn. The closest hotels to our property include the following: You can find maps of our facility on the Kentucky Exposition Center's website. We're happy to hear you'll be visiting us for the upcoming archery tournament! The event will take place at the East Hall, North Wing, South Wing A and Broadbent Arena. It was crazy and scary!! You definitely over sold the venue, and you didn't think about people's comfort or safety!! We saw at least 4 emergencies in the crowd, during Pearl Jam, that we had never seen before!! We couldn't even enjoy ourselves at the Pearl Jam, that we waited all day to see, because of the overcrowding issue!! Again, you should be ashamed of yourself!! We won't be back next year, so you just lost several great customers as a result of being money hungry!! We have never seen that many people at Bourbon and Beyond before. We couldn't go to the bathroom or get a drink due to the long lines and too many people walking in all directions. That's horrible!!! I will not pay $4.50 for a small can of water!! Third, the venue was extremely overcrowded on Saturday night to the point where we could barely move. It is evident that you don't offer enough water stations or cold water because you want everyone to pay $4.50 for a small can of cold water. Plus, the water was room temperature when it was extremely hot outside to where people almost passed out at one point waiting to fill up their water bottles. First, the prices of food and drink and parking were outrageous!! Second, there were not enough water stations for vast the amount of people there. The wing was completed in October 2007 and is currently being used by most events staged at the complex.My husband and I have been to several Bourbon and Beyond events and each year it gets worse and worse!! This year was the worst we have seen, and you all should be ashamed of yourselves for overcharging and overcrowding the venue on Saturday night. The new facility, also features a skywalk, allowing those parking in the rear of the facility to access the lobby without going through the new hall. It was replaced with the renamed North Wing, a more modern Class "A" exhibition space with higher ceilings and fewer support poles, similar to the South Wing. In April 2006, demolition began on KEC's East Wing, which was built as part of the original facility in 1956. In February 2006 the facility changed its name from Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center to simply Kentucky Exposition Center to "more accurately reflect the facility's mission." The event returned to Louisville in 2006. Titled the Panasonic Open, the event was held at the Kentucky Exposition Center from June 8–12. In 2004, Louisville was selected as one of five cities in the United States to host the Dew Tour, an extreme sports franchise which started 2005. The venue was also home to the Fairgrounds Motor Speedway which hosted the ARCA Racing Series and ASA National Tour from 1961 to 1979 including long running races the International 500 and the Bluegrass 300. Past sporting events held at KEC include six NCAA final Fours, the minor league world series, and the Bluegrass Bowl, a failed attempt to start an annual college football bowl game. It is located adjacent to I-65 and the Henry Watterson Expressway, as well as the Louisville International Airport. KEC hosts a number of events, including the Kentucky State Fair, the North American International Livestock Exposition, the VEX Robotics World Championships and the National Farm Machinery Show. Freedom Hall at the Kentucky Exposition Center ![]() The site has 1,000 permanent horse stalls, 720 temporary stalls and capacity for livestock as well. Broadbent Arena is also located within the complex and as has maximum capacity of 6,600. Freedom Hall is one of two on-site arenas, and provided 18,875 seats for the University of Louisville men's and women's basketball teams until they moved downtown to the new KFC Yum! Center for the 2010–11 season. The main entrance and South Wing of the Kentucky Exposition CenterĬardinal Stadium, formerly an on-site baseball/ football field with a capacity of up to 37,925, was home to the University of Louisville football and Louisville Redbirds minor league baseball teams. ![]()
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