The main north-south route through the city is U.S. 127. Other hotel chains are nearby. Jim's Seafood, jutting over the Kentucky River near downtown, specializes in catfish, scrod, trout and fried banana peppers. Gabriel's in the Holiday Inn. The Kentucky Capitol, on Capital Avenue, and the Old State Capitol, downtown on Broadway, offer guided and self-guided public tours seven days a week.
Admission is free.
Reservations or advance calls for large groups are requested. A visitor information desk is staffed inside the front entrance. The Executive Mansion, adjacent to the Capitol and home of Kentucky governors since 1914, is open for tours 9-11 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday. The Frankfort-Franklin County Tourist and Convention Commission operates a visitors' center at the corner of Capital Avenue and Second Street, five blocks from the statehouse. Hours are 8 a.m.-5 p.m.