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Honestly--and this is coming from a guy from town smaller than Bowling Green--once you've spent a weekend in Lexington, you've pretty much seen all that there is to really see in Lexington. Very little of the city actually consists of a well-preserved, pre-1900/historic, vibrant core b/c the city harbors Atlanta's philosophy of "tear the da*n thing down." Literally 70% of the city is poorly-planned, grow-out-as-we-go, post-WWII suburban sprawl that's just not really aesthetically appeasing. But, hey, at least Triangle Park is Downtown and the surrounding horse farms are beautiful. And, the people aren't particularly friendly, either. (Of course, neither are Louisville or, sadly, where I live in Northern KY, so I think that's endemic in the Ohio Valley.)
Trust me, Frankfort and Franklin County, with not even 1/5 the population of Lexington, has a much better-developed park system than Lexington.
If you want natural beauty and a big-city-amenity-with-small-town-neighborhoods-feel, it would behoove you to look into Louisville or Cincinnati for the architectural and natural charm and character, or Nashville or Columbus, OH for the nightlife and "young population" feel.