travel42 Hotel Review: French Lick Resort

French Lick Resort travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

In a relatively remote locale, planted one mile from its sibling West Baden Springs Hotel, a two-hour drive south of Indianapolis, a little more than an hour from Louisville, this is the larger and livelier of the two hotels.

This was the original springs resort, opened in 1845. It joins its sibling on the National Register of Historic Places, and rightfully so—this is a stunning example of a period American palace, and too few exist outside of the main urban ...