There is a moderate amount of walking, but very doable for someone with limited mobility. I did not see any rentable wheelchairs or walkers, but call or message the museum to see if they are available.

You can arrive as soon as the venue opens and tour the museum until your tour starts. They will direct you when and where to meet prior to your tour. You can then visit the venue following your tour as well. Have Fun!

The general admission and historic walking tour is a great start and is fairly economical. Be sure to watch the Greatest Race movie. It is one of the my favorite parts of my visit. I took the behind the scenes tour and really enjoyed seeing Millionaires Row and Mansion areas. The training and backside tours were not offered on my visit because it was offseason. I would think the horse-involved tours would be really interesting. Like you, I am not a big horse racing enthusiast. I stopped in because I was in town and looking for something to do. After my tour I have started to tentatively plan for attending the Derby. I feel like I have to be part of it at some point. I hope you have a great experience here.

Yes, even on race days, our historic walking tour still goes out to the track! If you're lucky, you might be able to catch a race, but you do have to stay with the tour group while on Churchill Downs' property. We are closed on Thurby, Oaks and Derby, and no tours go out those days.

DeeDee, we are excited for your trip! Tickets are available for purchase now for our Golf Cart Tours in 2020, but you certainly can wait a bit to book. Thank you for planning a trip to our Museum!

Hi, horses work out early mornings, we're talkin' 5am! Our Museum opens at 8am, and if you take our first walking tour of the day, which goes out to the track, you have a very good chance of seeing horses exercising.

Yes I think so the movie is great and the tour guides are very informative also the exhibits are good too

Highly recommend the outdoor and indoor tour. The movie is great, museum probably an hour not including movie but make sure people know there is a second floor part to the museum. Several of our friends totally missed this part of the museum. Outside tour portion was an hour plus, very worthwhile, if you go in am you can see them training the horses.

4th street live has a lot of good restaurants. Steaks fish Mexican BBQ Hard Rock. It’s about 10 minutes from Churchill Downs.

Not nearby but I can definitely recommend downtown Louisville - so many choices. Mussels and Burger Bar is fabulous. And so is Merle’s Whiskey Kitchen. Fine for young people too. Very casual. Next visit I hope to make it to the Brown Hotel for the famous Hot Brown.