Auburn is in northern IN, many hours from Jeffersonville. I assume you'll be driving through southern IN on I-64. Jeffersonville has a Bass Pro Shops.
45 minutes or so west of Jeff and about 15 miles north if I-64 is Marengo Cave, a national landmark.
Marengo Cave, US National Landmark
A little farther west and 5 miles south of I-64 is Holiday World & Splashin' Safari
Holiday World Theme Park & Splashin' Safari Water Park, Lincoln State Park
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_State_Park, and the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Boyhood_National_Memorial. Our farm is 1 mile from where Abraham Lincoln lived as a boy. (Other well-known locals include Florence Henderson, Mom Brady who grew up in Dale, IN 3 miles north of the farm, Jay Cutler, Bears QB who went to our local high school, and Ken Dilger, ex Colts player who also went to the same high school.)
9 miles north of I-64, due north of Lincoln State Park is Huntingburg, IN, home of League Stadium, where much of the movie "A League of Their Own" was filmed. The movie "Hard Rain" was also filmed in town.
Another 45 minutes west is Evansville which has Mesker Park Zoo. It's about 15 miles south of I-64.
My personal recommendations? If you like caves, Marengo is worth the time to take a tour. If you like roller coasters, Holiday World has many that are voted as world's best year in and year out, and they have a new ride this year called the Thunderbird that is the world's first launched wing coaster. If you'll have kids along, they'll love the water park. If you're bringing pets, leave them with us (see link in my signature....shameless plug
) while you visit Holiday World or Lincoln.
