Bowling Green, KY

Bowling Green has a diverse economic and cultural base. Best known as the city where the Chevrolet Corvette is built, small town is also home to the 15,000 students of Western Kentucky University. Other employers include Holley Performance Products (carburetors) and Fruit of the Loom, and the town is a center for a wide and diverse agricultural region. Downtown is modest and attractive with a classic main street and numerous historic homes and Civil War sites. The outskirts east towards I-65 have grown rapidly and bring some typical “strip” and freeway sprawl. The university, the third largest in the state, does bring some college town amenities and feel. Mammoth Cave National Park, one of few national parks in the region, is located 30 miles northeast.