SPUR US 23 - Pike 1988 - Dropped in Pikeville following the opening of the Cut Thru road.
This page lists all U.S. highway routes in Kentucky. The Bluegrass State is one of the best states for keeping U.S. routes as surface roads, only rarely moving U.S. routes to freeways. How groovy is that?
| 23 |
|---|
BEGIN: 1 mi from Jenkins
Letcher
• 7.319 mi
Pike
• 32.828 mi
Floyd
• 21.986 mi
Johnson
• 16.864 mi
Lawrence
• 29.069 mi
Boyd
• Names:
• Louisa Rd
• Court St
• Louisa St
• Walnut St
• Center St
• Winchester Ave
• Greenup Ave
• Winchester Ave
• Us-60 W
• Russell Rd
• 20.938 mi
Greenup
• 28.760 mi
END: KY 8, 1 mi from South Portsmouth
Runs from Jacksonville FL to Mackinaw City MI.
This road through eastern Kentucky's Appalachian Mountains has been heavily upgraded since the 1960s. Almost all (if not all) of Kentucky's US 23 is now a 4-lane divided highway and it bypasses the center of many small towns. Some of the upgrades are new roads several miles from the old roads or are built along minor roads like the previously gravel Jennys Creek Road.
Old parts of US 23 in Kentucky are often called Mayo Trail. I have no idea how the road got this name.
One of the biggest engineering feats ever - second only to the Panama Canal - is the Pikeville Cut Thru. It cut into Peach Orchard Mountain and rechanneled the Levisa Fork River there. Construction of the Cut Thru lasted from 1973-87. US 23 at the Cut Thru uses a newer road with freeway-style exits - bypassing the old crescent-shaped route that used city streets.
US 23 leaves Kentucky at the Ohio River and enters Ohio. The old U.S. Grant Bridge there - which opened in the 1920s - was torn down in 2001. US 23 was then detoured onto the Carl Perkins Bridge - pending completion of a new bridge at this site maintained by the state of Ohio. The new bridge opened in 2006. A 2-year delay in opening the bridge caused local business owners to request that Ohio reimburse them for lost revenues.
The Carl Perkins Bridge - which is Spur KY 8 - is rumored to also be Truck US 23 though this designation doesn't appear on the official log.
SPUR US 23 - Pike 1988 - Dropped in Pikeville following the opening of the Cut Thru road.
TRUCK US 23 - Boyd 1988 - Appears to have run concurrent with what was also then US 60 in Catlettsburg and paralleled US 23 to the east. Became part of KY 3294.
BIZ US 23 - Pike 1988/Johnson 1996 - Paintsville's Biz US 23 became parts of KY 40 and Biz KY 321. There was also a Biz US 23 in Pikeville - which I assume is what the official log lists as US 23BR.
| SPUR 23 |
|---|
BEGIN: Biz US 23/US 60, Ashland
Boyd
• Names:
• 13th St
• 0.483 mi
END: 1 mi from Ashland
ONE-WAY REVERSE
BEGIN: US 60, Ashland
Boyd
• Names:
• Martin Luther King Blvd
• 0.483 mi
END: 1 mi from Ashland
A pair of one-way bridges in downtown Ashland that cross the Ohio River to Ohio.
Kentucky maintains the bridges into Ohio - apparently all the way to US 52.
The northbound bridge is the Simeon Willis Memorial Bridge, opened in 1985.
The southbound bridge is the Ben Williamson Memorial Bridge, opened in 1932.
Martin Luther King Boulevard is the old 12th Street.
| BIZ 23 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 23, Ashland
Boyd
• Names:
• Winchester Ave
• 1.551 mi
END: Spur US 23/US 60, Ashland
Uses US 60
BEGIN: US 60, Ashland
Boyd
• Names:
• Winchester Ave
• 0.245 mi
END: US 23, Ashland
Runs through downtown Ashland - only one block over from mainline US 23.
| 25 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 25E/US 25W, North Corbin
Laurel
• Names:
• Us-25 S
• S Laurel Rd
• S Main St
• South Main St
• North Main St
• N Main St
• N Laurel Rd
• Us-25 N
• 23.949 mi
Rockcastle
• Names:
• S Wilderness Rd
• Richmond St
• N Wilderness Rd
• 27.052 mi
Madison
• Names:
• Mt Vernon Rd
• Chestnut St
• Estill St
• Center St
• Estill St
• Richmond Rd
• Richmond Rd N
• Berea Rd
• Eastern Byp
• Robert R Martin Byp
• Lexington Rd
• 28.161 mi
END: I-75/KY 2884, 2 mi from Blue Grass
Assumed to use other routes
BEGIN: KY 2328, 1 mi from Clays Ferry (Lexington)
Fayette
• Names:
• Old Richmond Rd
• Richmond Rd
• E Main St
• W Main St
• Newtown Pike
• Georgetown St
• Georgetown Rd
• 22.286 mi
Scott
• Names:
• Lexington Rd
• S Broadway
• N Broadway
• Cincinnati Pike
• 25.372 mi
Grant
• Names:
• North Main St
• Dry Ridge Byp
• 23.866 mi
Kenton
• Names:
• Dixie Hwy
• 4.978 mi
Boone
• Names:
• Main St
• Dixie Hwy
• 11.407 mi
Kenton
• Names:
• Dixie Hwy
• Pike St
• Main St
• Clay Wade Bailey Bridge
• 8.998 mi
END: 1 mi from West Covington
ONE-WAY REVERSE
BEGIN: US 25/US 60, 1 mi from Hollywood (Lexington)
Fayette
• Names:
• E Vine St
• W Vine St
• 0.873 mi
END: US 25, 2 mi from Hollywood (Lexington)
Kentucky maintains US 25 into Cincinnati - up to just north of the state line on the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge.
US 25 runs from Brunswick GA to the end of Kentucky maintenance in Cincinnati. This has been the end of US 25 since about 1974.
US 25 used to run at least to Port Austin MI.
US 25 in Kentucky is generally paralleled by I-75.
Kentucky's US 25 mostly uses the east leg of the old Dixie Highway.
The Clay Wade Bailey Bridge - named for a newspaper reporter - opened in 1974. It replaced the roadway of what was known as the C&O Bridge - which had been used by cars from about 1930 until its closure in 1968 following the finding of rusted bolts and other structural decay. After the closure of that roadway one unusual plan called for converting the rail portion of the bridge so cars could travel in the same lanes as trains. Needless to say this was rejected for safety reasons.
Some old maps show US 25 using both the C&O and the Roebling Suspension Bridge in Covington.
| 25E |
|---|
BEGIN: 2 mi from Middlesboro
Bell
• Names:
• Us-25 E
• N 12th St
• Us-25 E
• Robert L Madon Byp
• Us-25 E
• 18.651 mi
Knox
• Names:
• Us-25 E S
• Us-25 E N
• 26.198 mi
Laurel
• Names:
• E Cumberland Gap Pkwy
• W Cumberland Gap Pkwy
• 2.024 mi
END: I-75/KY 770, 1 mi from Dorthae
US 25 is split into US 25E and 25W from Newport TN to North Corbin.
Most (if not all) of US 25E in Kentucky is a divided highway and generally follows the old Wilderness Road.
Enters Kentucky from Tennessee using the Cumberland Gap Tunnel - opened 1996. The tunnel bypasses an old routing that entered the corner of Virginia for less than a mile.
Runs along the Cumberland River floodwall in Pineville.
Where US 25E and 25W merge to form US 25, US 25E continues past the merger to I-75.
Was US 25 in the 1930s.
| 25W |
|---|
BEGIN: 1 mi from Fairview
Whitley
• Names:
• Us-25w S
• Us-25w N
• Cumberland Falls Hwy
• 18th St
• S Main St
• N Main St
• Corbin Over Pass Dr
• 33.803 mi
Laurel
• Names:
• Us-25 W
• 1.036 mi
END: US 25/US 25E, North Corbin
ONE-WAY REVERSE
BEGIN: US 25W, Corbin
Whitley
• Names:
• S Kentucky Ave
• N Kentucky Ave
• Corbin Over Pass Dr
• 0.935 mi
END: US 25W, Corbin
Was US 129 in the 1930s.
TRUCK US 25W - Whitley 1998 - I'm taking an educated guess at what Truck US 25 in the official log was about. It was in Corbin and I think it was actually Truck US 25W. I'd hazard a guess that it may have used Lynn Avenue and Union Street so trucks could avoid an underpass.
| BIZ 25 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 25/KY 876, Richmond
Madison
• Names:
• Big Hill Ave
• E Main St
• W Main St
• Lexington Rd
• 3.654 mi
END: US 25/KY 2875, 1 mi from Arlington
BEGIN: US 25, Williamstown
Grant
• Names:
• Baton Rouge Rd Spur
• Baton Rouge Rd
• Arnie Risen Blvd
• Us-25
• 2.239 mi
END: US 25, Dry Ridge
Richmond's Biz US 25 was formed from US 25 in 1999 (though it uses a new road at the north end). It would also appear to be Biz US 421 (seeing how US 421 uses US 25 and all).
Dry Ridge's Biz US 25 was established in 2005 from KY 3025 in Williamstown and an old part of US 25 in Dry Ridge - upon completion of the bypass on Dry Ridge's east side. In 2006 the Helton Road section reverted to KY 3025 and Biz US 25 was moved onto KY 3088 to connect with US 25 on the south end. But for the presence of KY 22 the north end of the new bypass would be a true ''Kentucky loop'' - the same setup found on KY 16 on the north of Walton and once seen at the Markland Dam approach. In this arrangement the road goes over the intersecting road and loops back to meet it.
| 27 |
|---|
BEGIN: 2 mi from Strunk
McCreary
• 22.252 mi
Pulaski
• 30.869 mi
Lincoln
• Names:
• Us-27 S
• Us-27 N
• 21.982 mi
Garrard
• Names:
• Stanford Rd
• Stanford St
• Lexington St
• Lexington Rd
• 16.691 mi
Jessamine
• Names:
• Danville Rd
• Nicholasville Bypass
• Lexington Rd
• Nicholasville Rd
• 15.278 mi
Fayette
• Names:
• Nicholasville Rd
• S Limestone
• Virginia Ave
• S Broadway
• N Broadway
• Paris Pike
• 16.008 mi
Bourbon
• Names:
• Lexington Rd
• Martin Luther King Blvd
• Cynthiana Rd
• 15.435 mi
Harrison
• Names:
• Us-27 S
• Us-27 W
• N Main St
• Us-27 N
• 20.501 mi
Pendleton
• 19.340 mi
Campbell
• Names:
• Alexandria Pike
• Monmouth St
• E 3rd St
• Taylor-Southgate Brg
• 22.764 mi
END: 1 mi from Newport
ONE-WAY REVERSE
BEGIN: US 27, Newport
Campbell
• Names:
• E 11th St
• York St
• 0.840 mi
END: KY 8, Newport
Runs from Miami to Fort Wayne IN (after being cut off there in 2002).
Includes the Taylor-Southgate Bridge. This bridge over the Ohio River is maintained by Kentucky into Cincinnati.
In Cincinnati US 27 goes northeast on Pete Rose Way for a block from the end of the bridge and southwest on Mehring Way back under the bridge - making this a rare instance of a U.S. route crossing under itself. Pete Rose Way is one of few roads named after a person sighted blowing bubbles with bubble gum on TV (unless Martha Quinn has a road named after her).
The Taylor-Southgate replaced the Central Bridge - known for its distinct hum - in the 1990s (forcing traffic to be detoured onto the L&N Bridge for about 3 years).
I've been told that in the 1920s the road from Paris to Newport was US 25E.
Prior to 1941, US 27 from Alexandria to Cold Spring used what is now East Alexandria Pike.
The road from Alexandria to Cold Spring was widened to 4 lanes around 1977.
In the 1990s the ravages of suburbanism dogged Highland Heights, where it took many years to rebuild a section of US 27, rerouting it onto a new, straighter roadway. This ''improvement'' did not enhance functionality, however, and was really little more than a misguided and costly aesthetic change.
US 27C - Campbell 2007:
The unsigned US 27C branched off US 27 in Newport - using 3rd Street from Monmouth Street to Saratoga Street and running north on what was once the L&N Bridge to where the span enters Ohio.
The bridge over the Ohio River is 2,670 feet long.
For the last few years of US 27C's existence the bridge was something rare if not unique for the entire nation: a U.S. route that disallowed cars. It previously was open to auto traffic and had a parallel rail line.
When the L&N Bridge was reopened for pedestrians and bicyclists only it was renamed the Newport Southbank Bridge. But it's commonly called the Purple People Bridge (even on signs).
The closure lasted several years so crews could add a lavender coat of paint to its rusted framework. Reopening for walkers and cyclists came amid a festive dedication in April 2003.
The bridge is actually an extension of Saratoga Street from Newport to Pete Rose Way in Cincinnati. The rest of Saratoga was unnumbered and was well-known for the railroad track running down the center of the street - before it was replaced by a grassy median in the 1980s.
The Purple People Bridge actually doesn't allow much of anything. Although boosters of the bridge boasted it would be used by skateboarders, a sign prohibits skateboards and many other things, including ''shoeless persons.'' Thus it's been said that the span is reminiscent of a Stalinist police state.
At least one sign on the bridge declares the bridge is privately owned - though it is in fact public.
In 2006 this historic span introduced a bridge climb as a tourist attraction. But this was ended in 2007 after rainy weather stymied interest.
By 2009 local officials were already threatening to close the Purple People Bridge altogether despite its heavy use.
| 27C |
|---|
BEGIN: US 27, 1 mi from Belmont
Harrison
• 0.135 mi
END: KY 36, 1 mi from Belmont
As US 27/62 uses the Cynthiana bypass it goes over KY 36 - so US 27C is a short connector designated in 2014. While the official shapefile calls it US 27C, the official log has called it US 62C.
| BIZ 27 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 27, Nicholasville
Jessamine
• Names:
• S Main St
• N Main St
• 3.890 mi
END: US 27, Nicholasville
BEGIN: US 27/US 62, 2 mi from Belmont
Harrison
• Names:
• Us-27 X
• S Main St
• N Main St
• 2.602 mi
END: US 27, Cynthiana
Nicholasville's Biz US 27 was established in 1988 when US 27 was moved to the new divided highway bypass west of town.
Cynthiana's Biz US 27 is mostly an old part of US 27 - which was moved to a new bypass in 2014.
| 31 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 31E/US 31W/KY 1020, Louisville
Jefferson
• Names:
• S 2nd St
• Clark Memorial Brg
• 1.222 mi
END: 1 mi from Louisville
Runs from Spanish Fort AL to Mackinaw City MI.
Split into US 31E and 31W from Nashville to Louisville.
Includes the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge in Louisville - which opened in 1929.
Kentucky maintains the bridge into Jeffersonville IN up to where it meets Court Avenue.
That bridge is where Muhammad Ali threw his Olympic medal into the Ohio River.
| 31E |
|---|
BEGIN: 1 mi from Adolphus
Allen
• Names:
• New Gallatin Rd
• New Glasgow Rd
• 19.189 mi
Barren
• Names:
• Scottsville Rd
• S L Rogers Wells Blvd
• N L Rogers Wells Blvd
• N Jackson Hwy
• 25.857 mi
Hart
• Names:
• S Jackson Hwy
• N Jackson Hwy
• 21.575 mi
Larue
• Names:
• New Jackson Hwy
• Lincoln Farm Rd
• South Lincoln Blvd
• East Main St
• Bardstown Rd
• 20.651 mi
Nelson
• Names:
• Hodgenville Rd
• Main St
• New Haven Rd
• Cathedral Rd
• West Stephen Foster Ave
• East Stephen Foster Ave
• N 3rd St
• Louisville Rd
• 27.434 mi
Bullitt
• Names:
• Louisville Rd
• 0.236 mi
Spencer
• Names:
• Louisville Rd
• 1.882 mi
Bullitt
• Names:
• Bardstown Rd
• 5.162 mi
Jefferson
• Names:
• Bardstown Rd
• Buechel Byp
• Bardstown Rd
• Baxter Ave
• E Main St
• W Main St
• 17.887 mi
END: US 31/US 31W, Louisville
ONE-WAY REVERSE
BEGIN: US 31E, 1 mi from Cliftons (Louisville)
Jefferson
• Names:
• E Market St
• W Market St
• 1.154 mi
END: US 31/US 31W/KY 1020, Louisville
A now-defunct Biz US 31E was formed from a bypassed part of US 31E in Scottsville in 1987. It became parts of KY 100, 98, and 3499 in 1989.
| BIZ 31E |
|---|
BEGIN: US 31E, Glasgow
Barren
• Names:
• S Green St
• E Public Sq
• N Public Sq
• N Race St
• 3.240 mi
END: US 31E, Glasgow
BEGIN: US 31E, Mount Washington
Bullitt
• Names:
• South Bardstown Rd
• North Bardstown Rd
• 2.487 mi
END: US 31E, Mount Washington
ONE-WAY REVERSE
BEGIN: Biz US 31E, Glasgow
Barren
• Names:
• S Public Sq
• W Public Sq
• 0.110 mi
END: Biz US 31E/Biz US 68, Glasgow
Mount Washington's Biz US 31E cropped up in 1996 when US 31E was rerouted around town.
| 31W |
|---|
BEGIN: Black Jack
Simpson
• Names:
• Nashville Rd
• S Main St
• N Main St
• Bowling Green Rd
• 13.984 mi
Warren
• Names:
• Nashville Rd
• Us-31w Bypass
• E Riverview Dr
• Louisville Rd
• 28.793 mi
Edmonson
• Names:
• Louisville Rd
• 7.996 mi
Barren
• Names:
• Louisville Rd
• S Dixie Hwy
• N Dixie Hwy
• 8.905 mi
Hart
• Names:
• S Dixie St
• N Dixie St
• S Dixie Hwy
• Main St
• N Dixie Hwy
• 22.611 mi
Larue
• Names:
• South Walnut St
• 1.474 mi
Hardin
• Names:
• S Walnut St
• N Walnut St
• S Dixie Hwy
• E Dixie Ave
• Public Sq
• West Dixie Ave
• North Dixie Ave
• N Dixie Hwy
• S Dixie Blvd
• N Dixie Blvd
• Dixie Hwy
• 33.243 mi
Meade
• Names:
• S Dixie Hwy
• N Dixie Hwy
• 3.530 mi
Hardin
• Names:
• Dixie Hwy
• 4.124 mi
Jefferson
• Names:
• Dixie Hwy
• Bernheim Ln
• S 22nd St
• Dumesnil St
• Dr W J Hodge St
• W Market St
• 22.035 mi
END: US 31/US 31E/KY 1020, Louisville
ONE-WAY REVERSE
BEGIN: US 31W, Elizabethtown
Hardin
• Names:
• East Dixie Ave
• Public Sq
• West Dixie Ave
• 0.065 mi
END: US 31W, Elizabethtown
BEGIN: US 31W, 1 mi from South Parkland (Louisville)
Jefferson
• Names:
• S 22nd St
• W Main St
• 3.460 mi
END: US 31/US 31E, Louisville
Generally follows the west branch of the old Dixie Highway from Bowling Green to Louisville.
An apparent exception is in Louisville where Dixie Highway continues on an unnumbered street to Broadway.
Instead of rejoining US 31E in Louisville US 31W used to cross the K&I Bridge on Louisville's west side with US 150. At the time the merger of US 31E and 31W into US 31 happened in Sellersburg IN.
For its part Dixie Highway outside Louisville follows US 431 from the Tennessee state line to Russellville; US 68 to Bowling Green; US 31W to Cave Creek; KY 335 to KY 218; KY 218 to Horse Cave; US 31W to Elizabethtown; Wilson Road and Old Dixie Highway to West Point; and Biz US 31W to US 31W.
BYP US 31W - Warren 1983 - The Bowling Green version of Byp US 31W probably used the inner bypass on Laurel Avenue on the south and east before this became part of US 31W.
| BYP 31W |
|---|
BEGIN: KY 1136, Elizabethtown
Hardin
• Names:
• Us-31w Byp
• 3.758 mi
END: US 31W, Elizabethtown
A divided highway that has some grade separations and even a couple freeway-style interchanges (other than the one to the parkway).
| BIZ 31W |
|---|
BEGIN: US 31W, West Point
Hardin
• Names:
• Main St
• 1.988 mi
END: US 31W, West Point
Redesignated from KY 835 in 1994. Presumably also Biz US 60.
| 41 |
|---|
BEGIN: Guthrie
Todd
• Names:
• State St
• Ewing St
• West Park St
• Dixie Beeline Hwy
• South Main St
• North Main St
• Dixie Beeline Hwy
• 12.458 mi
Christian
• Names:
• Pembroke Rd
• East Nashville St
• West Nashville St
• Pembroke Rd
• East 9th St
• South Virginia St
• North Virginia St
• North Main St
• Madisonville Rd
• South Madisonville St
• North Madisonville St
• Madisonville Rd
• 31.574 mi
Hopkins
• Names:
• Hopkinsville Rd
• South Hopkinsville St
• North Hopkinsville St
• Hopkinsville Rd
• South Hopkinsville Rd
• North Hopkinsville Rd
• Hopkinsville Rd
• South Lee Trover Todd Hwy
• East Main St
• North Robinson St
• North Lee Trover Todd Hwy
• South Main St
• North M
• 27.718 mi
Webster
• 12.226 mi
Henderson
• Names:
• Us-41 South
• 11.525 mi
END: 1 mi from Rankin
BEGIN: I-69, 1 mi from Rankin
Henderson
• Names:
• Us-41 South
• Us-41 North
• 9.452 mi
END: 3 mi from White City
ONE-WAY REVERSE
BEGIN: US 68/KY 107, Hopkinsville
Christian
• Names:
• South Main St
• North Main St
• 0.571 mi
END: US 41, Hopkinsville
BEGIN: US 41/KY 112, Earlington
Hopkins
• Names:
• North Lee Trover Todd Hwy
• 0.333 mi
END: Earlington
Runs from Miami Beach FL to Copper Harbor MI.
Includes the Bi-State Vietnam Gold Star Bridges at the Ohio River near Henderson. US 41 crosses the river to an enclave cut off from the rest of Kentucky when the river changed its course.
Was once US 241 from Nashville to Hopkinsville.
In the 1930s and 1940s, US 41 and Alt US 41 from Nashville to Hopkinsville were US 41E and 41W, respectively.
Used the Pennyrile Parkway from Nortonville to Madisonville until 1995. That stretch of parkway was actually built as a US 41 bypass before the rest of the parkway was.
US 41 from Madisonville to Henderson was built in the 1950s. Before then US 41 followed what is now Alt US 41.
| ALT 41 |
|---|
BEGIN: Oak Grove
Christian
• Names:
• Fort Campbell Blvd
• Walnut St
• 15.990 mi
END: US 41, Hopkinsville
BEGIN: US 41/KY 281, Madisonville
Hopkins
• Names:
• Nebo Rd
• 13.288 mi
Webster
• Names:
• Us-41a
• 19.657 mi
Henderson
• Names:
• Us-41a
• South Green St
• North Green St
• Us-41a
• 17.436 mi
END: US 60, Henderson
Was once US 43 from Nashville to Hopkinsville.
| 42 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 31E, 1 mi from Cliftons (Louisville)
Jefferson
• Names:
• E Main St
• Mellwood Ave
• Brownsboro Rd
• 11.835 mi
Oldham
• 19.359 mi
Henry
• Names:
• Brownsboro Rd
• 1.122 mi
Trimble
• Names:
• Main St
• 14.520 mi
Carroll
• 16.500 mi
Gallatin
• Names:
• Us-42 W
• W Main St
• E Main St
• Us-42 E
• 16.970 mi
Boone
• 15.287 mi
END: US 25, Florence
ONE-WAY REVERSE
BEGIN: US 31E, 1 mi from Cliftons (Louisville)
Jefferson
• Names:
• Story Ave
• Brownsboro Rd
• 0.965 mi
END: US 42, Cliftons (Louisville)
Runs from Louisville to Cleveland.
Piggybacks on US 25 from Florence to Cincinnati.
Reportedly part of KY 10 back in the 1920s.
| 45 |
|---|
BEGIN: 1 mi from Riceville
Fulton
• Names:
• W Highland Dr
• N Highland Dr
• Martin Luther King Dr
• 3.130 mi
Hickman
• 3.370 mi
Graves
• Names:
• Us-45 S
• Us-45 S Loop
• Fulton Rd
• S 12th St
• W Walnut St
• S 7th St
• N 7th St
• Paducah Rd
• Us-45 N
• 31.620 mi
McCracken
• Names:
• Lone Oak Rd
• Jackson St
• S 28th St
• Joe Clifton Dr
• Hc Mathis Dr
• N 8th St
• 13.800 mi
END: 2 mi from Rowlandtown
ONE-WAY REVERSE
BEGIN: US 45, Mayfield
Graves
• Names:
• S 12th St
• W Water St
• S 8th St
• N 8th St
• 1.003 mi
END: US 45, Mayfield
Runs from Mobile AL to Ontonagon MI.
Uses the Irvin S. Cobb Bridge at the Ohio River near Paducah.
Split into US 45E and 45W from Jackson TN almost to the Kentucky state line just south of Fulton.
BYP US 45 - Fulton 1989 - Became US 45. The Kentucky portions of US 45E and 45W became KY 307 and 116.
BYP US 45 - Graves - This was long embodied mostly by the Purchase Parkway around Mayfield. Now it's taken over by I-69 and a rebuilt ramp southwest of town.
| BIZ 45 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 45, Paducah
McCracken
• Names:
• Washington St
• Kentucky Ave
• S 3rd St
• N 3rd St
• North Loop Rd
• Park Ave
• N 8th St
• 4.378 mi
END: US 45, Paducah
ONE-WAY REVERSE
BEGIN: Biz US 45/Biz US 60, Paducah
McCracken
• Names:
• N 4th St
• North 4th St
• Martin Luther King Jr Dr
• North 8th St
• 0.808 mi
END: Biz US 45/Biz US 60, Paducah
| 51 |
|---|
BEGIN: JC 9003/KY 1648, Fulton
Fulton
• Names:
• Nolan Ave
• 4.682 mi
Hickman
• Names:
• Us-51 S
• S Washington St
• N Washington St
• Us-51 N
• 15.095 mi
Carlisle
• Names:
• Us-51 S
• Us-51 N
• 12.655 mi
Ballard
• Names:
• Fort Jefferson Hill Rd
• S 4th St
• N 4th St
• Green St
• Cairo Rd
• 8.297 mi
END: 4 mi from Wickliffe
Runs from La Place LA to Hurley WI.
Uses the Julian M. Carroll Parkway around Fulton. Apparently Byp US 51 used to be designated along the parkway there but US 51 began using this stretch in 1989.
| 60 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 51, Wickliffe
Ballard
• Names:
• N 4th St
• Lee St
• N 6th St
• Barlow Rd
• S 4th St
• Broadway
• Paducah Rd
• W Kentucky Dr
• E Kentucky Dr
• Paducah Rd
• Kentucky Ave
• 16.937 mi
McCracken
• Names:
• Hinkleville Rd
• Park Ave
• Joe Clifton Dr
• 13.402 mi
END: US 45, Paducah
Uses US 45
BEGIN: US 45, Paducah
McCracken
• Names:
• Jackson St
• Ohio St
• S 21st St
• Irvin Cobb Dr
• 7.232 mi
Livingston
• Names:
• W Adair St
• E Adair St
• W Main St
• E Main St
• 29.218 mi
Crittenden
• Names:
• Us-60 W
• W Gum St
• S Main St
• N Main St
• Sturgis Rd
• Us-60 E
• 23.018 mi
Union
• Names:
• South Morgan St
• North Morgan St
• 26.069 mi
Henderson
• Names:
• Us-60 West
• South Green St
• 10.283 mi
END: Alt US 41, Henderson
Uses Alt US 41
BEGIN: Alt US 41, Henderson
Henderson
• Names:
• Us-60 East
• 14.828 mi
Daviess
• Names:
• Wendell Ford Expy
• 33.178 mi
Hancock
• 17.696 mi
Breckinridge
• 31.811 mi
Meade
• Names:
• Owensboro Hwy
• 14.936 mi
END: US 31W, Fort Knox
Assumed to use other routes
BEGIN: US 42, Cliftons (Louisville)
Jefferson
• Names:
• Frankfort Ave
• Shelbyville Rd
• 17.375 mi
Shelby
• Names:
• Shelbyville Rd
• Midland Trl
• Main St
• Frankfort Rd
• 23.026 mi
Franklin
• Names:
• Louisville Rd
• W 2nd St
• Capital Ave
• E Main St
• Versailles Rd
• 14.038 mi
Woodford
• Names:
• Versailles Rd
• Frankfort Rd
• Us-60 Byp
• Lexington Rd
• 13.039 mi
Fayette
• Names:
• Versailles Rd
• W High St
• Oliver Lewis Way
• 8.043 mi
END: US 25/US 421, 1 mi from Meadowthorpe (Lexington)
Uses US 25
BEGIN: US 25, 1 mi from Hollywood (Lexington)
Fayette
• Names:
• Midland Ave
• Winchester Rd
• 11.112 mi
Clark
• Names:
• Lexington Rd
• W Lexington Ave
• S Main St
• N Main St
• Sterling St
• Mt Sterling Rd
• 17.166 mi
Montgomery
• Names:
• Winchester Rd
• West Main St
• East Main St
• Owingsville Rd
• 12.090 mi
Bath
• 19.811 mi
Rowan
• Names:
• Us-60 W
• 0.240 mi
Bath
• 0.300 mi
Rowan
• Names:
• Us-60 W
• West Wilkinson Blvd
• East Wilkinson Blvd
• Us-60 E
• 16.872 mi
Carter
• Names:
• Tom T Hall Blvd
• 34.847 mi
Boyd
• Names:
• Us-60 W
• 13th St
• Winchester Ave
• 11th St
• 12.409 mi
END: US 23, Ashland
Uses US 23
BEGIN: US 23, Catlettsburg
Boyd
• Names:
• 35th St
• 0.471 mi
END: Catlettsburg
ONE-WAY REVERSE
BEGIN: US 42, Cliftons (Louisville)
Jefferson
• Names:
• Frankfort Ave
• 0.123 mi
END: US 42/US 60, Cliftons (Louisville)
BEGIN: US 60, Shelbyville
Shelby
• Names:
• Washington St
• 1.684 mi
END: US 60, Veachland
BEGIN: US 60, Ashland
Boyd
• Names:
• Martin Luther King Blvd
• 0.491 mi
END: Spur US 23/US 60, Ashland
Assumed to use other routes
BEGIN: Biz US 23, Ashland
Boyd
• Names:
• 10th St
• 0.080 mi
END: US 23, Ashland
Runs from Quartzsite AZ to the no-swearing metropolis of Virginia Beach VA. Used to go at least to Los Angeles before California decertified it.
This beedleloggery runs for about 440 miles in Kentucky - which earns US 60 the undisputed title as the longest designated highway in the state. That doesn't count piggybacked sections like where it uses US 31W from Meade County to Louisville.
US 60 is somewhat controversial: According to many maps US 60 follows the I-264 bypass in Louisville - leaving it farther from downtown than Alt US 60, which is sort of an inner bypass along city streets. But in fact US 60 goes downtown on a route that those same maps mark US 60B. Similarly some maps of Lexington show a fictitious Byp US 60 using the north loop of New Circle Road.
Kentucky maintains US 60 just a bit into West Virginia as it crosses the Big Sandy River using a 1988 bridge.
BYP US 60 - Daviess - Built aroud 1970 as a freeway around Owensboro. It was later named the Wendell Ford Expressway and is now US 60.
US 60C - McCracken 1982 - Became part of Biz US 60.
SPUR US 60 - Boyd 1988 - This was likely 34th Street in Catlettsburg from US 23 to Oakland Avenue. Thus it would have become KY 1174 upon construction of the current bridge at 35th.
TRUCK US 60 - Jefferson 1984 - It's not known exactly where Truck US 60 split from US 60 or Biz US 60, but it did go from US 42 and along Frankfort Avenue to St. Matthews before being made part of US 60.
BIZ US 60 - Jefferson 1984/Boyd 1986 - In the early 1980s, US 60 in Louisville used a less illustrious route that varies according to the source. At least one source put US 60 along what is now Alt US 60, placing Biz US 60 along US 31W in Shively and then along Dixie Highway, Broadway, US 31E, and Grinstead Drive. A different Biz US 60 existed at an unknown spot in Boyd County and became part of US 60.
| ALT 60 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 31W/KY 2049, 1 mi from Shively (Louisville)
Jefferson
• Names:
• 7th St Rd
• Berry Blvd
• Taylor Blvd
• Winkler Ave
• S 3rd St
• Eastern Pkwy
• Willow Ave
• Cherokee Pkwy
• Grinstead Dr
• Lexington Rd
• 10.550 mi
END: US 60, Saint Matthews (Louisville)
Bypasses central Louisville on a moshtosh of surface streets.
| BYP 60 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 60/KY 3393, 1 mi from Morganfield
Union
• Names:
• Us-60b
• 2.915 mi
END: US 60, Morganfield
Established 2002.
| BIZ 60 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 60, Paducah
McCracken
• Names:
• Park Ave
• Martin Luther King Jr Dr
• 1.823 mi
END: Biz US 45, Paducah
Uses Biz US 45
BEGIN: Biz US 45, Paducah
McCracken
• Names:
• S 4th St
• S 3rd St
• Wayne Sullivan Dr
• 3.242 mi
END: US 60/KY 1954, Paducah
BEGIN: US 60, 1 mi from Cloverport
Breckinridge
• Names:
• Us-60 Business
• West St
• Chestnut St
• W Main St
• E Main St
• Lynn St
• Murray Ave
• Carter Rd
• 2.779 mi
END: US 60, 1 mi from Cloverport
BEGIN: Frankfort
Franklin
• Names:
• Bridge St
• 0.077 mi
END: Frankfort
BEGIN: US 60, Versailles
Woodford
• Names:
• Frankfort St
• N Main St
• Lexington St
• Lexington Rd
• 1.790 mi
END: US 60, Versailles
ONE-WAY REVERSE
BEGIN: Biz US 60, Paducah
McCracken
• Names:
• Park Ave
• 1.134 mi
END: Biz US 45, Paducah
Uses Biz US 45
BEGIN: Biz US 45/KY 3238, Paducah
McCracken
• Names:
• S 3rd St
• 0.416 mi
END: Biz US 60, Paducah
Cloverport's Biz US 60 formed in 1994 from the former US 60.
Much more unusual than any other Biz US 60 is the one in Frankfort: It includes just the Singing Bridge and doesn't touch the parallel part of US 60. Besides that it's practically redundant as US 60 goes through the central city anyway. The Singing Bridge crosses the Kentucky River and generates a neat hum when you drive across it. As of 2006 it still featured what may have been the last old cutout route marker remaining in Kentucky.
| 62 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 51, Bardwell
Carlisle
• 12.981 mi
Ballard
• Names:
• Cunningham Rd
• E Walnut St
• Blandville Rd
• 1.754 mi
McCracken
• Names:
• Alben Barkley Dr
• 12.861 mi
END: US 45/KY 731, Paducah
Assumed to use other routes
BEGIN: US 60, Riverview
McCracken
• 3.307 mi
Marshall
• 12.145 mi
Livingston
• 2.893 mi
Lyon
• Names:
• Us-62 W
• Us-62 E
• 14.183 mi
Caldwell
• Names:
• W Main St
• E Main St
• E Court Sq
• E Market St
• N Jefferson St
• Mcgoodwin Ave
• Madisonville St
• Dawson Rd
• 18.277 mi
Hopkins
• Names:
• West Arcadia Ave
• East Arcadia Ave
• Nortonville Rd
• Greenville Rd
• West Greenville Rd
• East Greenville Rd
• Greenville Rd
• 22.151 mi
Muhlenberg
• Names:
• Hopkinsville St
• S Main St
• N Main St
• W Main St
• E Main St
• Everly Brothers Blvd
• 26.005 mi
Ohio
• Names:
• West First St
• North Main St
• Louisville Rd
• 25.950 mi
Grayson
• Names:
• Beaver Dam Rd
• West Maple St
• East Maple St
• Beaver Dam Rd
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky Hwy
• West White Oak St
• South Main St
• Courthouse Sq
• North Main St
• Mill St
• Elizabethtown Rd
• West Main St
• East Main St
• Elizabethtown Rd
• 33.511 mi
Hardin
• Names:
• Leitchfield Rd
• South Mulberry St
• North Mulberry St
• Bardstown Rd
• 28.194 mi
Nelson
• Names:
• Elizabethtown Rd
• Boston Rd
• West Stephen Foster Ave
• 14.274 mi
END: US 31E, Bardstown
Uses US 31E
BEGIN: US 31E, Bardstown
Nelson
• Names:
• East Stephen Foster Ave
• Bloomfield Rd
• Springfield Rd
• Chaplin Rd
• 22.920 mi
Anderson
• Names:
• Bardstown Rd
• Fox Creek Rd
• W Broadway St
• S Main St
• E Woodford St
• Versailles Rd
• 22.863 mi
Woodford
• Names:
• Tyrone Pike
• Rose Hill Ave
• S Main St
• 7.048 mi
END: Biz US 60, Versailles
Assumed to use other routes
BEGIN: US 60, 1 mi from Versailles
Woodford
• Names:
• Midway Rd
• S Winter St
• N Winter St
• Midway Rd
• E Leestown Pike
• E Leestown Rd
• 9.411 mi
Scott
• Names:
• Leestown Rd
• Paynes Depot Rd
• Mcclelland Cir
• Cherry Blossom Way
• Cynthiana Rd
• 18.942 mi
Bourbon
• 0.273 mi
Harrison
• Names:
• Us-62 W
• 9.080 mi
END: US 27/Biz US 27, 2 mi from Belmont
Uses Biz US 27
BEGIN: Biz US 27, Cynthiana
Harrison
• Names:
• E Mill St
• N Walnut St
• Oddville Ave
• Us-62 E
• 12.971 mi
Robertson
• 15.438 mi
Mason
• Names:
• D Bernard Coughlin Blvd
• 18.021 mi
END: 1 mi from Maysville
ONE-WAY REVERSE
BEGIN: US 62, Princeton
Caldwell
• Names:
• W Market St
• 0.306 mi
END: US 62, Princeton
BEGIN: US 62, Leitchfield
Grayson
• Names:
• South Main St Nc
• Courthouse Sq Nc
• North Main St Nc
• 0.074 mi
END: US 62, Leitchfield
Goes from the Mexican border in El Paso TX to the Canadian border in Niagara Falls NY.
This roadway uses Kentucky Dam at the Tennessee River.
Also known as James Best Way in Powderly. Yes, the same James Best who played Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on The Dukes Of Hazzard.
BIZ US 62 - Mason - Went through Maysville and used the Simon Kenton Memorial Bridge before US 62 was restored to this route. It had been Biz US 62 since 2001.
| 68 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 62, Reidland
McCracken
• 2.677 mi
Marshall
• Names:
• Us-68 W
• Us-68 E
• 28.165 mi
Trigg
• Names:
• Canton Rd
• Bypass Rd
• Hopkinsville Rd
• 28.029 mi
Christian
• Names:
• Cadiz Rd
• West 7th St
• West 9th St
• East 9th St
• 10.930 mi
END: US 41/KY 107, Hopkinsville
Uses US 41
BEGIN: US 41, Hopkinsville
Christian
• Names:
• Mclean Ave
• Russellville Rd
• 10.184 mi
Todd
• Names:
• Hopkinsville Rd
• Russellville Rd
• 14.422 mi
Logan
• Names:
• Hopkinsville Rd
• Us-68 Bypass
• Bowling Green Rd
• 29.223 mi
Warren
• Names:
• Russellville Rd
• Veterans Memorial Ln
• Kentucky St
• 15.248 mi
END: US 31W, Bowling Green
Uses US 31W
BEGIN: US 31W, Bowling Green
Warren
• Names:
• Glasgow Rd
• 12.036 mi
Barren
• Names:
• New Bowling Green Rd
• New Glasgow Rd
• Veterans Outer Loop
• Edmonton Rd
• 23.159 mi
Metcalfe
• Names:
• Glasgow Rd
• W Stockton St
• N Main St
• Greensburg St
• Greensburg Rd
• 20.016 mi
Green
• 18.381 mi
Taylor
• Names:
• Greensburg Rd
• West Broadway
• East Broadway
• New Lebanon Rd
• 13.531 mi
Marion
• Names:
• New Campbellsville Rd
• Campbellsville Hwy
• W Main St
• E Main St
• Danville Hwy
• 23.803 mi
Boyle
• Names:
• Us-68 West
• S Buell St
• E 2nd St
• S Bragg St
• N Bragg St
• Harrodsburg Rd
• 9.830 mi
Mercer
• Names:
• Perryville Rd
• Perryville St
• Mooreland Ave
• S College St
• W Lexington St
• E Lexington St
• Lexington Rd
• 20.058 mi
Jessamine
• Names:
• Harrodsburg Rd
• 12.019 mi
Fayette
• Names:
• Harrodsburg Rd
• S Broadway
• 5.639 mi
END: US 27, 1 mi from Pine Meadows (Lexington)
Uses US 27
BEGIN: US 27, Paris
Bourbon
• Names:
• Martin Luther King Blvd
• Millersburg Rd
• Maysville Rd
• 11.022 mi
Nicholas
• Names:
• Maysville Rd
• 12.593 mi
Robertson
• 1.357 mi
Fleming
• 5.423 mi
Mason
• Names:
• Us-68 Bypass
• Clyde T Barbour Pkwy
• 18.457 mi
END: 2 mi from Moranburg
Runs from Reidland (near Paducah) to Findlay OH.
Includes the 3,495-foot-long Eggner Ferry Bridge over Kentucky Lake.
The old Eggner Ferry Bridge (opened 1932) was closed for months in 2012 because it collapsed after being hit by a cargo ship. Injuries were narrowly avoided. A pickup truck traveling on the bridge when it was hit stopped only 5 feet away from the missing section.
The new bridge opened in 2016.
Up to 1983, US 68 from Campbellsville to near Lebanon ran along what is now KY 289.
| ALT 68 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 68, 1 mi from Fairview
Christian
• Names:
• Jefferson Davis Hwy
• 1.417 mi
Todd
• Names:
• Jefferson Davis Hwy
• 0.723 mi
END: US 68, 3 mi from Britmart
Formed in 2000 from the old US 68 when US 68 moved to a newly built roadbed. Alt US 68 serves the 351-foot-tall Jefferson Davis obelisk. The official state park website tries to downplay any potential controversy.
| BYP 68 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 68/KY 1682, 2 mi from Canton Pike
Christian
• Names:
• Eagle Way
• Dr Martin Luther King Jr Way
• 11.026 mi
END: US 68, 3 mi from Casky
The south side of the Hopkinsville loop. The north side of the bypass includes part of KY 1682. In full, the bypass is mostly a divided highway and forms almost a full circle around the city.
| BIZ 68 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 68, 2 mi from Cadiz
Trigg
• Names:
• Canton Rd
• Main St
• 4.543 mi
END: US 68, Cadiz
BEGIN: US 68, Elkton
Todd
• Names:
• Us-68x
• W Main St
• Public Sq
• E Main St
• Us-68x
• 4.786 mi
END: US 68, 2 mi from Elkton
BEGIN: US 68/US 431, Russellville
Logan
• Names:
• Hopkinsville Rd
• W 4th St
• Park Sq Sw
• S Main St
• E 4th St
• S Franklin St
• Bowling Green Rd
• 3.375 mi
END: US 68/US 79, 1 mi from Russellville
BEGIN: US 68, 2 mi from Auburn
Logan
• Names:
• W Main St
• E Main St
• 3.035 mi
END: US 68, Auburn
BEGIN: US 68/US 231, Bowling Green
Warren
• Names:
• Russellville Rd
• University Dr
• Adams St
• Kentucky St
• 3.249 mi
END: US 68/KY 234, Bowling Green
BEGIN: US 68/KY 3600, Glasgow
Barren
• Names:
• New Glasgow Rd
• New Bowling Green Rd
• W Main St
• 2.528 mi
END: Biz US 31E, Glasgow
Uses Biz US 31E
BEGIN: Biz US 31E, Glasgow
Barren
• Names:
• E Main St
• N Broadway St
• Columbia Ave
• Edmonton Rd
• 2.068 mi
END: US 68/KY 1519, 1 mi from Lecta
BEGIN: US 27, Paris
Bourbon
• Names:
• S Main St
• Main St
• E Main St
• Millersburg Rd
• 2.772 mi
END: US 68, Paris
BEGIN: US 68, 1 mi from Millersburg
Bourbon
• Names:
• Millersburg Rd
• Main St
• Maysville Rd
• 2.057 mi
Nicholas
• Names:
• Maysville Rd
• 0.195 mi
END: US 68, 3 mi from Hooktown
BEGIN: US 68, 2 mi from Old Washington
Mason
• Names:
• Us-68x
• 1.445 mi
END: US 62/KY 1236, Maysville
ONE-WAY REVERSE
BEGIN: Biz US 68, Elkton
Todd
• Names:
• Public Sq
• 0.072 mi
END: Biz US 68, Elkton
BEGIN: Biz US 68, Russellville
Logan
• Names:
• Park Sq Nw
• N Main St
• 0.059 mi
END: Biz US 68, Russellville
BEGIN: Biz US 68, Bowling Green
Warren
• Names:
• Adams St
• 1.131 mi
END: US 68/Biz US 68/KY 234, Bowling Green
BEGIN: Biz US 68, Paris
Bourbon
• Names:
• High St
• Bank Row St
• 0.683 mi
END: Biz US 68, Paris
Cadiz's Biz US 68 formed in 1995 when US 68 was moved to a new bypass.
The same happened in Elkton in 2000, Russellville in 1998, and Auburn in 1997.
A similar event occurred in Bowling Green in 2008 when US 68 was moved to the existing bypass.
| 79 |
|---|
BEGIN: Tiny Town
Todd
• 10.606 mi
Logan
• Names:
• Clarksville Rd
• W 9th St
• Russellville Bypass
• 16.184 mi
END: US 68/Biz US 68, 1 mi from Russellville
Runs from Round Rock TX to Russellville.
Now uses the south loop of the Russellville bypass. Thus KY 79 does not begin at the exact point where US 79 ends.
US and KY 79 were KY 105 until the 1940s or 1950s. That's when US 79 was extended from West Memphis AR to Russellville. It was later that the remaining KY 105 became KY 79.
In 2007, US 79 was truncated on the southwest side of Russellville. Part of US 79 in town became KY 3240.
| 119 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 25E, Wasioto
Bell
• 15.880 mi
Harlan
• Names:
• Us-119 S
• Us-119 N
• 39.182 mi
Letcher
• Names:
• Us-119 S
• Us-119 N
• Us-119 Nc
• Us-119 N
• 26.689 mi
END: US 23, Jenkins
Uses US 23
BEGIN: US 23, Pikeville
Pike
• 25.721 mi
END: South Williamson
Runs from Wasioto to DuBois PA.
Said to be one of the most dangerous major roads in America. There is no flat land along US 119 and I've heard that coal trucks being driven without headlights are constantly backing out of mining roads directly onto the highway without stopping for oncoming traffic.
Also famously known as Kingdom Come Parkway.
Parallels the Cumberland River and CSX rail line, runs up the mountains, then along the mighty Poor Fork, then up an incredibly crooked stretch to Whitesburg.
US 119 used to run northeast from Pikeville on the current KY 1426 but now bypasses that.
I'm told that US 119 between Harlan and Cumberland was even more treacherous before 1975 when it was rebuilt. Old US 119 must be KY 522 now.
| SPUR 119 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 119/KY 292, South Williamson
Pike
• Names:
• Us-119s
• 0.056 mi
END: South Williamson
The Harvey Street Bridge over the Tug Fork River to Williamson WV. Aerial photos reveal it has a green framework - which is all the rage in West Virginia.
Formerly US 119.
| 127 |
|---|
BEGIN: Static
Clinton
• 21.586 mi
Russell
• Names:
• Us-127 Byp
• N Main St
• 25.966 mi
Casey
• 23.715 mi
Lincoln
• Names:
• Us-127 S
• Us-127 N
• 10.686 mi
Boyle
• Names:
• Us-127 S
• Hustonville Rd
• S 4th St
• S 3rd St
• W Main St
• N Maple Ave
• Harrodsburg Rd
• 10.319 mi
Mercer
• Names:
• Danville Rd
• S College St
• 4.402 mi
END: US 68, Harrodsburg
Uses US 68
BEGIN: US 68, Harrodsburg
Mercer
• Names:
• N College St
• Louisville Rd
• 12.748 mi
Anderson
• Names:
• Harrodsburg Rd
• S Main St
• 6.175 mi
END: US 62, Lawrenceburg
Uses US 62
BEGIN: US 62/KY 44, Lawrenceburg
Anderson
• Names:
• N Main St
• Frankfort Rd
• Bypass N
• 4.945 mi
Franklin
• Names:
• Us-127 S
• West Plaza Connector Rd
• Wilkinson Blvd
• 10.884 mi
END: US 421, Frankfort
Assumed to use other routes
BEGIN: KY 2261, Frankfort
Franklin
• Names:
• Holmes St
• Us-127 N
• 10.516 mi
Owen
• Names:
• Main St
• 28.488 mi
Gallatin
• 6.037 mi
END: US 42, 2 mi from Napoleon
ONE-WAY REVERSE
BEGIN: US 127, Danville
Boyle
• Names:
• S 4th St
• 0.720 mi
END: US 127, Danville
Runs from Chattanooga TN to near Grayling MI. Includes much of what was the Michigan part of US 27 prior to 2002.
Piggybacks on US 42 and US 25 from Napoleon to Cincinnati.
Promoted as a massive annual yard sale that spans Tennessee and Kentucky.
Until 1958, US 127 was KY 35 from the Tennessee line to the present KY 35 north of Owenton; KY 16 from KY 35 to the present KY 16; and KY 239 from KY 16 to US 42. This includes the possibly unsigned former US 37 south of Albany.
Until 1989, US 127 followed US 60 to central Frankfort and used Holmes Street north.
US 127 in southern Kentucky is known for the fact that I once saw a discarded toilet laying along the road.
A bypassed part of US 127 in Hustonville became Biz US 127 in 1993 but became KY 2141 in 1994.
US 127 through Lawrenceburg was at one point signed as Biz US 127 but this does not appear to have been official.
| BYP 127 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 127/Byp US 150, Danville
Boyle
• Names:
• S Danville Byp
• N Danville Byp
• 5.270 mi
END: US 127, 1 mi from Caldwell Manor
BEGIN: US 127, 2 mi from Harrodsburg
Mercer
• Names:
• Us-127 S Bypass
• Us-127 N Bypass
• 4.483 mi
END: US 127/KY 390, 2 mi from Stringtown
BEGIN: US 127, McBrayer
Anderson
• Names:
• Bypass S
• Bypass N
• 6.656 mi
END: US 127/KY 151, 1 mi from Alton Station
US 127 is 4 lanes divided from Danville to Frankfort except in most of the places where the divided highway is picked up by Byp US 127. The Danville and Lawrenceburg bypasses appear to be pre-1980 while the Harrodsburg bypass opened around 2001. There is sort of an extension of the bypass on the northwest side of Harrodsburg used by KY 390.
| BIZ 127 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 127, Bug
Clinton
• Names:
• Us-127x
• E Water St
• S Washington St
• N Washington St
• N Cross St
• Us-127x
• 5.862 mi
END: US 127, 1 mi from Snow
BEGIN: US 127, 2 mi from Jamestown
Russell
• Names:
• S Us-127 Business
• W Cumberland Ave
• N Main St
• 3.290 mi
END: US 127, Jamestown
ONE-WAY REVERSE
BEGIN: Biz US 127, Albany
Clinton
• Names:
• E Water St
• S Cross St
• N Cross St
• 0.341 mi
END: Biz US 127, Albany
Jamestown's Biz US 127 formed in 2007 as US 127 was (predictably enough) moved to the new bypass.
| 150 |
|---|
BEGIN: I-64, 2 mi from Portland (Louisville)
Jefferson
• Names:
• N 22nd St
• 0.740 mi
END: US 31W, 1 mi from Portland (Louisville)
Uses US 31W
BEGIN: US 31W, 2 mi from Parkland (Louisville)
Jefferson
• Names:
• W Broadway
• E Broadway
• 3.354 mi
END: US 31E, 1 mi from Cliftons (Louisville)
Assumed to use other routes
BEGIN: US 62, Bardstown
Nelson
• Names:
• East Stephen Foster Ave
• Springfield Rd
• 7.653 mi
Washington
• Names:
• Bardstown Rd
• Us-150 Bypass
• Perryville Rd
• 21.056 mi
Boyle
• Names:
• Us-150 W
• W 2nd St
• 4.234 mi
END: US 68, Perryville
Uses US 68
BEGIN: US 68/KY 1856, Perryville
Boyle
• Names:
• E 2nd St
• Perryville Rd
• W Main St
• 9.274 mi
END: US 127, Danville
Uses US 127
BEGIN: US 127/KY 33, Danville
Boyle
• Names:
• W Main St
• E Main St
• Stanford Ave
• Stanford Rd
• 4.997 mi
Lincoln
• Names:
• Us-150 W
• Us-150 W Bypass
• Us-150 E Bypass
• John Sims Hwy
• Us-150 E
• 18.774 mi
Rockcastle
• Names:
• Dysart Way
• 10.205 mi
END: US 25/KY 1249, Mount Vernon
ONE-WAY REVERSE
BEGIN: US 150, 1 mi from Portland (Louisville)
Jefferson
• Names:
• N 22nd St Conn
• N 21st St
• Dr W J Hodge St
• 0.358 mi
END: US 31W/Truck US 150, Louisville
Runs from Moline IL to Mount Vernon.
US 150 in Kentucky was once US 168.
In the olden days US 150 used Main Street in New Albany IN and crossed the Ohio River to Louisville via the K&I Bridge - along with US 31W. This bridge was unusual because the rail line had one lane of road traffic on each side - so eastbound US 150 used one side of the bridge while westbound used the other side. In 1979 (believe it or not) one of the roadbeds caved in - prompting the road portions of the bridge to be closed ever since. Now the approach roads in Indiana are overgrown with weeds and dotted with signs to keep trespassers out. It's spooky and fun to explore!
US 31W/150 was removed from the K&I Bridge no later than 1972.
On the Kentucky side of the K&I Bridge there were still a few very old, homemade-looking signs directing motorists to the bridge as of 2004. US 150 used Northwestern Parkway to the Kentucky approach. At least one sign was still standing in 2007.
After US 150 was removed from the K&I Bridge it now uses I-64 - a rare but unfortunate instance of a U.S. route using a freeway in Kentucky.
Byp US 150 peopled Stanford until 2003 when it became part of US 150.
| BYP 150 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 127/Byp US 127, Danville
Boyle
• Names:
• S Danville Byp
• 2.272 mi
END: US 150, 2 mi from Beverly Hills
| TRUCK 150 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 31W, Louisville
Jefferson
• Names:
• W Market St
• 0.089 mi
END: US 31W/US 150, Louisville
An alternate to US 150 through Louisville for commercial drivers, possibly due to low clearances on Broadway (US 150). Truck US 150 is only officially carried for its first eastbound block, since it uses US 31W and 31E to finish the loop.
| BIZ 150 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 150, Saint Catharine
Washington
• Names:
• Us-150x
• Bardstown Rd
• W Main St
• E Main St
• Perryville Rd
• 4.545 mi
END: US 150, 1 mi from Jimtown
This route through Springfield formed in 2006 when US 150 was moved to what was mostly a bippin' new bypass.
| 231 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 31E/KY 980, Scottsville
Allen
• Names:
• Veterans Memorial Hwy
• 8.569 mi
Warren
• Names:
• Scottsville Rd
• Campbell Ln
• 13.882 mi
END: US 68/Biz US 68, Bowling Green
Uses US 68
BEGIN: US 68/Biz US 231, Bowling Green
Warren
• Names:
• Morgantown Rd
• 12.041 mi
Butler
• Names:
• Bowling Green Rd
• S Main St
• W G L Smith St
• Beaver Dam Rd
• 18.846 mi
Ohio
• Names:
• South Main St
• 9.999 mi
END: US 62, Beaver Dam
Uses US 62
BEGIN: US 62, Beaver Dam
Ohio
• Names:
• North Main St
• South Main St
• North Main St
• 14.263 mi
Daviess
• Names:
• New Hartford Rd
• 11.294 mi
END: KY 2155, 1 mi from Brook Hill Estates
Assumed to use other routes
BEGIN: US 60, Maceo
Daviess
• 3.557 mi
END: 4 mi from Maceo
Runs from Panama City FL to St. John IN.
Includes the 4,505-foot-long William H. Natcher Bridge at the Ohio River. This bridge opened in 2002 after many delays. Kentucky maintains this bridge into Indiana, about to where it crosses over IN 66.
| BIZ 231 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 231/KY 880, Bowling Green
Warren
• Names:
• Scottsville Rd
• Broadway Ave
• 2.066 mi
END: US 31W, Bowling Green
Uses US 31W
BEGIN: US 31W, Bowling Green
Warren
• Names:
• University Dr
• 0.460 mi
END: Biz US 68, Bowling Green
Uses Biz US 68
BEGIN: Biz US 68, Bowling Green
Warren
• Names:
• Morgantown Rd
• 1.392 mi
END: US 68/US 231, Bowling Green
This route in Bowling Green is probably not the same as an even earlier Biz US 231 that apparently ran closer to downtown and was killed in 1984. The current Biz US 231, established in 1999, actually uses an inner bypass that seems to have replaced that older business loop. US 231 was moved to the newer outer bypass that continues as KY 880.
| 421 |
|---|
BEGIN: 3 mi from Cranks
Harlan
• Names:
• Us-421 S
• 17.107 mi
END: US 119, Baxter
Uses US 119
BEGIN: US 119, 1 mi from Gatun
Harlan
• Names:
• Us-421 N
• 9.781 mi
Leslie
• 35.300 mi
Clay
• Names:
• Us-421 S
• White St
• Richmond Rd
• Us-421 N
• 32.824 mi
Jackson
• 29.574 mi
Rockcastle
• Names:
• Big Hill Rd
• 0.483 mi
Madison
• Names:
• Battlefield Memorial Hwy
• 12.571 mi
END: US 25, Terrill
Uses US 25
BEGIN: US 25/US 60, 1 mi from Meadowthorpe (Lexington)
Fayette
• Names:
• W Main St
• Leestown Rd
• 8.166 mi
Scott
• Names:
• Leestown Rd
• 0.754 mi
END: US 62, 1 mi from Paynes Depot
Uses US 62
BEGIN: US 62, Midway
Woodford
• Names:
• W Leestown Pike
• 4.931 mi
Franklin
• Names:
• Leestown Rd
• 3.072 mi
END: KY 676, Frankfort
Assumed to use other routes
BEGIN: US 60/US 460, Frankfort
Franklin
• Names:
• Wilkinson Blvd
• 1.451 mi
END: US 127, Frankfort
Uses US 127
BEGIN: US 127/KY 1211, 1 mi from Frankfort
Franklin
• Names:
• Bald Knob Rd
• 13.363 mi
Henry
• Names:
• Castle Hwy
• 6.263 mi
Shelby
• Names:
• Castle Hwy
• 0.790 mi
Henry
• Names:
• Castle Hwy
• Eminence Rd
• South Main St
• North Main St
• Campbellsburg Rd
• Main St
• Campbellsburg Rd
• 18.710 mi
Trimble
• 6.704 mi
END: US 42, Bedford
Uses US 42
BEGIN: US 42, Bedford
Trimble
• Names:
• Main St
• 12.494 mi
END: Milton
Runs from Kure Beach NC to Michigan City IN - ending in a state where much of US 421 is the historic Michigan Road.
Runs diagonally across Kentucky and uses the Ohio River bridge from Milton to Madison IN. Nonmotorized traffic that needed to cross the bridge was out of luck - because a sign forbade pedestrians from using it and because it was too busy for bicyclists to use. There was no alternate bridge within miles. (How inclusive - not!) This bridge has been replaced by a new bridge that allows bikes and pedestrians.
| 431 |
|---|
BEGIN: 1 mi from Adairville
Logan
• Names:
• Nashville Rd
• S Main St
• N Main St
• Nashville Rd
• 11.593 mi
END: US 79/KY 2146, 3 mi from Russellville
Uses US 79
BEGIN: US 79/KY 3240, Russellville
Logan
• Names:
• Us-431 Bypass
• 0.991 mi
END: US 68/Biz US 68, Russellville
Uses US 68
BEGIN: US 68, Russellville
Logan
• Names:
• Terry Wilcutt Hwy
• Lewisburg Rd
• S Main St
• N Main St
• Lewisburg Rd
• 16.163 mi
Muhlenberg
• Names:
• S John Prine Ave
• N John Prine Ave
• S 2nd St
• 18.278 mi
END: US 62/KY 1031, Central City
Uses US 62
BEGIN: US 62, Central City
Muhlenberg
• Names:
• Phillip Stone Way
• 10.035 mi
McLean
• Names:
• Adams Ave
• Henton St
• 11.573 mi
Daviess
• Names:
• Frederica St
• 11.389 mi
END: KY 2831, Owensboro
Runs from Dothan AL to Owensboro.
BIZ US 431 - Logan 2007 - Established 1999 when US 431 and the new KY 2843 bypass became Biz US 431 and US 431, respectively. Biz US 431 used Main Street in Russellville (using what was then US 79 to reconnect with US 431 on the south). It became part of KY 3519.
| 460 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 60/US 421, Frankfort
Franklin
• Names:
• Georgetown Rd
• 6.114 mi
Scott
• Names:
• Frankfort Rd
• W Main St
• E Main St
• Paris Pike
• 17.658 mi
Bourbon
• Names:
• Georgetown Rd
• W 8th St
• 9.150 mi
END: Biz US 68, Paris
Uses Biz US 68
BEGIN: Biz US 68, Paris
Bourbon
• Names:
• North Middletown Rd
• Main St
• Mt Sterling Rd
• 12.783 mi
Montgomery
• Names:
• Paris Rd
• Maysville Rd
• N Maysville St
• 9.549 mi
END: US 60, Mount Sterling
Uses US 60
BEGIN: US 60, Mount Sterling
Montgomery
• Names:
• S Bank St
• Apperson Hts
• Camargo Rd
• Main St
• 12.500 mi
Menifee
• Names:
• Us-460 W
• Main St
• Us-460 E
• 19.003 mi
Morgan
• Names:
• Us-460 W
• W Main St
• Main St
• Prestonsburg St
• Us-460 E
• 28.238 mi
Magoffin
• Names:
• West Maple St
• South Church St
• Parkway Dr
• Bert T Combs-Mountain Pkwy Ext
• 20.406 mi
Johnson
• 7.809 mi
END: US 23/KY 40, Paintsville
Uses US 23
BEGIN: US 23, Pikeville
Pike
• Names:
• Ferrells Creek Rd
• 25.325 mi
END: 1 mi from Toonerville
Runs from Frankfort to Norfolk VA.
Until 1977, US 460 continued west to Louisville using US 60. Through at least some of that era, it used the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge to Indiana and went to St. Louis.
At least into the 1990s, and possibly even now, US 460 had an old rock wall alongside it between Paris and Mount Sterling.
| BYP 460 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 460/KY 1143, Georgetown
Scott
• Names:
• Mcclelland Cir
• 1.026 mi
END: US 62, 1 mi from Indian Hills
A bypass on the south side of Georgetown built in the 1990s.
| 641 |
|---|
BEGIN: Hazel
Calloway
• Names:
• Main St
• Us-641 S
• S 12th St
• N 12th St
• Us-641 N
• 17.444 mi
Marshall
• Names:
• Us-641 S
• Main St
• Poplar St
• E 5th St
• Main St
• Us-641 N
• 12.862 mi
END: US 68, Draffenville
Uses US 68
BEGIN: US 68, Draffenville
Marshall
• Names:
• Us-641 N
• 6.388 mi
END: KY 282, 2 mi from Gilbertsville
Assumed to use other routes
BEGIN: US 62/KY 3305, Eddyville
Lyon
• Names:
• Us-641 N
• 5.715 mi
Caldwell
• Names:
• Us-641 S
• Cassidy Ave
• Marion Rd
• 4.720 mi
Crittenden
• Names:
• S Main St
• 7.012 mi
END: US 60, Marion
ONE-WAY REVERSE
BEGIN: US 641, Benton
Marshall
• Names:
• Main St
• 0.981 mi
END: US 641/KY 348, Benton
Runs from near Holladay TN to Marion.
Once ran concurrent with US 60 to Henderson.
| SPUR 641 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 641, Benton
Marshall
• Names:
• Us-641 S
• 3.519 mi
END: I-69, 2 mi from Benton
Built to bypass Benton and direct US 641 traffic onto the Purchase Parkway, this was renamed from Truck US 641 in 1992. (I guess the truck route used the parkway and some other road to loop back to US 641.)
| BIZ 641 |
|---|
BEGIN: US 641/KY 1550, Murray
Calloway
• Names:
• Glendale Rd
• S 4th St
• N 4th St
• Chestnut St
• 2.873 mi
END: US 641/KY 1327, Murray