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The road was renamed for Wendell H. Ford, a former Kentucky governor and United States senator, in 1998. Previously, it was simply the Western Kentucky Parkway, and often called the "WK Parkway" or "the WK" because of the acronym once used on its signs. The parkway carries the unsigned designation Kentucky Route 9001 (KY 9001) for its entire ...
The Woodlands Trace National Scenic Byway, also known as " The Trace ," is the major north–south roadway that traverses the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area in two counties in western Kentucky and northwestern Stewart County in northwest Middle Tennessee. [2] It is estimated to be 43.1 miles (69.4 km) in length.
The course of the Wilderness Road by 1785. The Wilderness Road was one of two principal routes used by colonial and early national era settlers to reach Kentucky from the East. Although this road goes through the Cumberland Gap into southern Kentucky and northern Tennessee, the other (more northern route) is sometimes called the "Cumberland ...
Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. / 36.85694°N 88.07472°W / 36.85694; -88.07472. Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a United States 171,280-acre national recreation area (69,310 ha) in Kentucky and Tennessee between Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake. It was designated as a national recreation area in 1963 ...
Westbound Bluegrass Parkway near Bardstown. In 2003, the road was renamed in honor of Martha Layne Collins, the first female governor of Kentucky. Previously, it was the Kentucky Bluegrass parkway (and signed as "KB Parkway"), then later renamed the "Blue Grass Parkway" (sometimes with "Bluegrass" as one word, though in the highway's name, it was officially two words), and often called the "BG ...
U.S. Route 31W. U.S. Route 31W ( US 31W) is the westernmost of two parallel routes for U.S. Route 31 from Nashville, Tennessee to Louisville, Kentucky . Tennessee State Route 41 (SR 41) is its unsigned companion route in Tennessee. During the December 2021 tornado outbreak, an EF3 tornado devastated stretches of US 31W in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Western Kentucky. Coordinates: 37.2°N 87.4°W. Western Kentucky is the western portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky. It generally includes part or all of several more widely recognized regions of the state. Always included. The Jackson Purchase, the state's westernmost generally recognized region, west of the Tennessee River.
Pennyrile Parkway Route information Maintained by KYTC Length 71.306 mi (114.756 km) Existed 1969–2017 History Opened in 1969 Northern section from Western Kentucky Parkway to Henderson redesignated as I-69 and US 41 on November 12, 2015 Southern section from W.K Parkway to I-24 redesignated as I-169 May 7, 2017 Major junctions South end I-24 near Hopkinsville Major intersections US 41 Alt ...