"Stacey" > wrote in message
om...
Paducah may also have an azalea
> trail--seems like I've read that somewhere, but I'm sure you can find
> that on the websites already listed by another poster.
They have a dogwood trail, but it's usually a few weeks before the quilt
festival.

What the area
> has to offer, really, is scenery. Across the river in Illinois is the
> Shawnee National Forest and state parks such as Garden of the Gods.
> If shopping is your thing, there was an outlet mall at Eddyville, KY,
> but I haven't been there in years and don't even know if it's still
> open.

Still open, but it has gone down hill a lot in the past few years. Most of
the stores have gone out of buisness, and what's left isn't that great.