Visiting Wilmore, Kentucky, is like stepping back to a simpler time with Norman Rockwell scenes around every corner. Horse-drawn carriages, carolers dressed in period costume and shop owners serving refreshments set the scene of Wilmore’s Old Fashioned Musical Christmas event. The town’s Fourth of July parade features a group of men called the “Wilmore Precision Lawnmower Marching Brigade,” dressed in shorts, shirt and tie performing rehearsed choreography with lawnmowers. To truly experience this quaint college town, visitors should stay at one of the downtown establishments.
Located on the campus of Asbury Theological Seminary, the Asbury Inn offers discounted rates for AAA members and guests affiliated with Asbury University or the seminary. A business center for guests is downstairs and free wireless Internet is accessible throughout the building. Guests enjoy daily complimentary breakfast and newspaper in the lobby. All rooms have a refrigerator, microwave and cable TV. Townhouse apartments two blocks from the inn are also available. Each two-story unit has two full baths, three bedrooms, laundry facilities and a full kitchen.
The Scott Station Inn is on historic Main Street, next to the post office and within walking distance to Asbury University, the seminary, grocery store, restaurants and just about everything else in Wilmore. One of the six rooms is decorated with Ale-8 memorabilia, a signature soft drink bottled in Kentucky. Wireless Internet access is available to guests, and all rooms have a TV and private bath (the Garden Room’s bath is in the hallway.) The innkeeper serves a full country breakfast to guests daily.
You will pass the 1898 Red Bud Bed and Breakfast as you enter Wilmore from Lexington. Each of the two rooms has cable TV with DVD, robes and hairdryers. The Oak Room and The Poplar Room are named after the original hardwood floors discovered during restoration. Guests enjoy watching TV or listening to music in the parlor and relaxing in a rocking chair on the extensive veranda. Wireless Internet access is available in the house. A full breakfast sometimes includes strawberries from the garden.
The owner of The Potter’s Inn is a potter whose hand-thrown pottery is on display throughout the inn for view and for sale. Each of the four bedrooms at the inn has a queen bed and private bath (one room’s bath is in the hallway.) Wireless Internet access is available, and the sunroom on the second floor has a kitchenette supplied with snacks and beverages. Vouchers for breakfast at Solomon’s Porch Café are given to guests Monday through Saturday, and breakfast is served Sundays in the sunroom. Overflow guests can lodge at the owner’s home, a 200-year-old log house one mile from the inn.
