Woodward Heights, Lexington
Woodward Heights is a neighborhood and historic district located immediately west of downtown Lexington, Kentucky.

Woodward Heights is a neighborhood and historic district located immediately west of downtown Lexington, Kentucky. It is bounded by Maxwell Street and the Pleasant Green Hill neighborhood to the southwest, by the parking lot for Rupp Arena to the southeast, by the Lexington Convention Center property to the northeast, and by Herlihy, Cox, and High Streets to the north.
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Worth seeing in and around Woodward Heights, Lexington
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky is a public land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, the university is one of the state's two land-grant universities.
2 km · public university in the United States · Wikipedia - 02Transylvania University
Transylvania University is a private liberal arts college in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. It was founded in 1780 and is Kentucky's oldest university.
1.2 km · private university in Lexington, Kentucky, United States · Wikipedia - 03Diocese of Lexington
The Diocese of Lexington is a Roman Catholic diocese in southeastern Kentucky in the United States. Erected in 1988, it is a suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Louisville.
2.5 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia - 04Rupp Arena
Rupp Arena at Central Bank Center is an arena located in downtown Lexington, Kentucky, United States. It is part of Central Bank Center, a convention and shopping facility owned by an arm of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government.
400 m · indoor arena in Lexington, Kentucky · Wikipedia - 05Kroger Field
Kroger Field, also known as Commonwealth Stadium, is a stadium in Lexington, Kentucky, United States, located on the campus of the University of Kentucky that primarily serves as the home field for the Kentucky Wildcats football team. The stadium is located at the corner of Alumni Drive and University Drive in Lexington.
3 km · stadium at the University of Kentucky · Wikipedia - 06African Cemetery No. 2
African Cemetery No. 2, also known as The Cemetery of the Union Benevolent Society No.
2.5 km · cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky · Wikipedia - 07Lexington Cemetery
Lexington Cemetery is a private, non-profit 170-acre rural cemetery and arboretum located at 833 W. Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky. The Lexington Cemetery was established in 1848 as a place of beauty and a public cemetery, in part to deal with burials from the 1833 cholera epidemic in the area.
1.2 km · botanical garden and cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky · Wikipedia - 08Cathedral of Christ the King
The Cathedral of Christ the King is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Lexington, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the seat of the Diocese of Lexington.
3.6 km · church in Kentucky, United States · Wikipedia - 09University of Kentucky Arboretum
The Arboretum, State Botanical Garden of Kentucky, 40 hectares or 100 acres, is located at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. It is open to the public from dawn to dusk every day of the year.
3.9 km · State Botanical Garden of Kentucky located at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, United States · Wikipedia - 10University of Kentucky College of Medicine
The University of Kentucky College of Medicine is a medical school based in Lexington, Kentucky, United States, at the University of Kentucky's Chandler Medical Center. The college operates four campuses; in addition to the main hub in Lexington, there are two full campuses serving the Bowling Green and Northern Kentucky regions, and an Eastern Kentucky rural medicine training site in Morehead.
1.9 km · medical school of the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY, USA · Wikipedia
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Getting to Woodward Heights, Lexington
- Airports
- Louisville Muhammad Ali (SDF), 108 km · Cincinnati Northern Kentucky (CVG), 112 km · Indianapolis (IND), 241 km
- Louisville → Woodward Heights, Lexington112 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · $10–14
- Cincinnati / Covington → Woodward Heights, Lexington111 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · $10–14
- Indianapolis → Woodward Heights, Lexington239 km · quickest by road, 4h 28m · $24–33
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Woodward Heights, Lexington is 4 km from Lexington-Fayette, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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