Clarksville, Jeffersonville & New Albany lie in Indiana on the Ohio River just a bridge north of Louisville.

Clarksville

Named after Revolutionary War hero George Rogers Clark and the site where his much younger brother William met up with Meriwether Lewis to begin their extraordinary journey to the Pacific Ocean. Now Clark’s homestead and where they began their journey is part of the www.fallsoftheohio.org/, the most hazardous spot on the 981-mile river.

It was a rugged area of wooded hills where the river swirled and eddied over rock formations dating back eons and containing a rich load of fossilized materials dating back millenniums. Take time to visit the monolithic interpretative center and walk along the trail paralleling the Ohio River with its great backdrop of Louisville, Kentucky across the water.

For kids, besides looking at the fossils and falls, there’s Atlantis Waterpark in Clarksville for lots of thrills and spills, including its 43-foot maze of water slides and Tsunami Seas wave pool with five-foot curlers, as well as King Neptune’s Cove for little ones.

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