Route information | ||||
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Maintained by KYTC | ||||
Length | 131.418 mi [1] (211.497 km) | |||
Major junctions | ||||
South end | US 119 in Whitesburg | |||
Hal Rogers Parkway / KY 80 in Hazard Mountain Parkway in Campton Mountain Parkway / KY 82 in Clay City | ||||
North end | US 60 in Winchester | |||
Location | ||||
Country | United States | |||
State | Kentucky | |||
Counties | Letcher, Knott, Perry, Breathitt, Wolfe, Powell, Clark | |||
Highway system | ||||
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Kentucky Route 15 begins at a junction of US 119/Corridor F & Business KY 15 in Whitesburg, and terminates in Winchester at US 60. It is a major route, connecting the coalfields of the Cumberland Plateau with Lexington and other cities in the Bluegrass region. The segment from Whitesburg to KY 15 at Campton, which in turn connects to the Bert T. Combs Mountain Parkway near the town, is also the primary part of Corridor I of the Appalachian Development Highway System.
This article needs to be updated.(August 2015) |
Currently, KY 15 is being relocated onto a new four-lane divided alignment in phases. Construction on section 17 of the relocation project is from KY 205 at Vancleve to Fivemile; construction began on January 6, 2005, at a cost of $36.4 million and is 100% complete. [2] Work is finished on section 16 from Fivemile to Wolverine;. There are additional plans to reconstruct the segment from Jackson south to Hazard on new alignment beginning in 2008.
The current construction is progressing from Vancleve to Jackson. Local reports suggest that the roadway will be opening for traffic flow by the summer of 2013. Construction of the section between Jackson and Haddix, KY has not started. The current budget crisis and lowered revenues for state and federal construction projects may delay groundbreaking on that section for years. (Updated June 2013)
Currently (Jan. 2021), construction is nearing completion north of Hazard. This section was expanded to four lanes from the Hazard bypass to Speedway Road. This project was designed to replace one of the heaviest used sections of two way, two lane traffic in Kentucky. The upgrade involved replacing several bridges and making large cuts to accommodate the widened roadway. An access road was added to allow traffic to enter and exit at Bonnyman near the post office. No projected date of construction has been made public for the section of roadway from Jackson to the current expansion.
County | Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes |
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Letcher | Whitesburg | 0.000 | 0.000 | KY 15X (Jenkins Road) / US 119 to US 23 – Jenkins, Cumberland | Southern terminus of business route |
1.389 | 2.235 | KY 15 Conn. east to KY 15X – Letcher County Veterans Memorial Museum | Western terminus of connector road | ||
2.284 | 3.676 | KY 15X south / KY 931 north (Hazard Road) – Whitesburg, Colson | Northern terminus of business route; south end of KY 931 overlap | ||
| 2.736 | 4.403 | KY 931 south (Whitco Road) – Gordon | North end of KY 931 overlap | |
| 3.918 | 6.305 | KY 3401 south (Uz-Dry Fork Road) | Northern terminus of KY 3401 | |
| 4.794 | 7.715 | KY 3402 north | Southern terminus of KY 3402 | |
Van | 6.225 | 10.018 | KY 1811 north (Smoot Creek Road) / KY 160 south (Hickory Road) – Roxana, Gordon | Southern terminus of KY 1811; south end of KY 160 overlap | |
| 8.911 | 14.341 | KY 1148 east – Colson | Western terminus of KY 1148 | |
Isom | 9.216 | 14.832 | KY 7 north – Deane, Mountain Motor Speedway | South end of KY 7 concurrency | |
| 9.876 | 15.894 | KY 7 south – Letcher, Blackey, Leatherwood Battlefield, Brashearville | North end of KY 7 concurrency | |
Knott | | 15.262 | 24.562 | KY 160 north – Hindman, Alice Lloyd College | North end of KY 160 overlap |
| 16.945 | 27.270 | KY 1231 north (Big Branch Road) | Southern terminus of KY 1231 | |
| 17.375 | 27.962 | Carr Creek State Park | ||
| 20.435 | 32.887 | KY 1088 west (Main Street) – Sassafras | Eastern terminus of KY 1088 | |
Perry | Vicco | 21.253 | 34.203 | KY 1095 south (Main Street) | Northern terminus of KY 1095 |
| 26.846 | 43.204 | KY 7 south (Ken Mount Road) – Jeff, Viper, Leatherwood, Leatherwood Battlefield, Brashearville | Northern terminus of KY 7 | |
Glomawr | 29.581 | 47.606 | KY 451 north (Christopher Road) | Southern terminus of KY 451 | |
| 29.970 | 48.232 | KY 1096 (Fourseam Buffalo Road) | ||
Hazard | 31.795 | 51.169 | KY 15 Bus. north (Main Street) | Southern terminus of Hazard business route | |
32.515 | 52.328 | KY 451 Conn. south to KY 451 | Northern terminus of connector road | ||
33.933 | 54.610 | KY 15 Bus. south | Northern terminus of Hazard business route | ||
34.351 | 55.283 | KY 80 west / KY 550 east | Interchange; western terminus of KY 550; south end of KY 80 overlap | ||
35.861 | 57.713 | KY 80 east – Prestonsburg, Pikeville | Interchange; north end of KY 80 overlap; ramp from EB Hal Rogers Parkway to KY 15 south of intersection | ||
36.023 | 57.973 | Hal Rogers Parkway west – London | Interchange; eastern terminus of Hal Rogers Parkway; parkway exit 59; ramp from WB KY 80 to KY 15 just east of here | ||
Bonnyman | 36.608 | 58.915 | KY 267 (Harveyton Road/Typo Road) – Harveyton, Typo | ||
| 40.518 | 65.207 | KY 1067 north (Fifteenmile Branch Road) | Southern terminus of KY 1067 | |
| 41.399 | 66.625 | KY 28 west – Buckhorn, Booneville, Buckhorn Lake State Resort Park | Eastern terminus of KY 28 | |
Breathitt | Ned | 46.372 | 74.628 | KY 2446 south | Northern terminus of KY 2446 |
| 49.890 | 80.290 | KY 1278 south – Watts | Northern terminus of KY 1278 | |
Lost Creek | 53.582 | 86.232 | KY 476 south – Riverside, Clayhole | Northern terminus of KY 476 | |
Haddix | 55.019 | 88.544 | KY 1110 south | Northern terminus of KY 1110 | |
Jackson | 60.487 | 97.344 | KY 1098 west / KY 1812 north (Quicksand Road) | Eastern terminus of KY 1098; southern terminus of KY 1812 | |
60.741 | 97.753 | KY 30 east – Sugar Creek Golf Course, Julian Carroll Airport | South end of KY 30 overlap | ||
62.593 | 100.734 | KY 1812 north / KY 3068 west (Main Street) | South end of KY 1812 overlap; eastern terminus of KY 3068 | ||
62.813 | 101.088 | Jetts Drive (KY 3232 east) | |||
63.289 | 101.854 | KY 1812 south (Washington Avenue) | North end of KY 1812 overlap | ||
63.740 | 102.580 | KY 30 west (Park Road) to KY 52 – Booneville | North end of KY 30 overlap | ||
| 65.699 | 105.732 | KY 205 south | South end of KY 205 overlap | |
| 66.802 | 107.507 | KY 205 north | North end of KY 205 overlap | |
| 68.164 | 109.699 | KY 1812 south | South end of KY 1812 overlap | |
Vancleve | 69.164 | 111.309 | KY 205 / KY 1812 north to Mountain Parkway east | Interchange; 205 both ways, 1812 to the north; north end of KY 1812 overlap | |
Wolfe | Bethany | 73.200 | 117.804 | KY 1261 south | South end of KY 1261 overlap |
73.239 | 117.867 | KY 1261 north | North end of KY 1261 overlap | ||
| 77.059 | 124.014 | KY 2028 south (Flat Mary Road) – Flat, Mary | Northern terminus of KY 2028 | |
| 80.199 | 129.068 | KY 2491 Conn. north to KY 2491 | Southern terminus of connector road | |
| 80.377 | 129.354 | KY 3355 (Elkins Road) to KY 2491 | ||
Campton | 81.022 | 130.392 | KY 15 Spur north (Mountain Parkway Spur) to Mountain Parkway / KY 191 east (Drake Street) – Winchester, Stanton, Campton, Hazel Green | Southern terminus of KY 15 Spur; western terminus of KY 191 | |
| 82.239 | 132.351 | KY 651 south (Bear Pen Road) | Northern terminus of KY 651 | |
| 84.897 | 136.628 | KY 1653 east to Mountain Parkway – Campton | Western terminus of KY 1653 | |
| 85.129– 85.422 | 137.002– 137.473 | Mountain Parkway – Lexington, Campton | Interchange; Mountain Parkway exit 40 | |
| 84.455 | 135.917 | KY 3040 east (Hobbs Road) | Western terminus of KY 3040 | |
| 85.555 | 137.687 | KY 715 south – Beattyville | South end of KY 715 overlap | |
Pine Ridge | 86.389 | 139.030 | KY 715 north (Sky Bridge Road) | North end of KY 715 overlap | |
Powell | Slade | 93.704 | 150.802 | KY 11 south (Natural Bridge Road) to Mountain Parkway – Natural Bridge State Resort Park, Beattyville, Prestonsburg, Lexington | South end of KY 11 concurrency |
| 95.200 | 153.210 | KY 77 south (Nada Tunnel Road) – Nada Tunnel, Red River Gorge | Northern terminus of KY 77 | |
| 97.652 | 157.156 | KY 1639 south (South Fork Road) | Northern terminus of KY 1639 | |
Bowen | 99.517 | 160.157 | KY 613 east (Little North Fork Road) | Western terminus of KY 613 | |
| 102.535 | 165.014 | KY 3354 south (Cat Creek Road) | Northern terminus of KY 3354 | |
Rosslyn | 103.015 | 165.787 | KY 1184 north (Little North Bend Road) | Southern terminus of KY 1184 | |
Stanton | 105.744 | 170.178 | KY 213 (Main Street) to Mountain Parkway – Furnace, Jeffersonville | ||
105.791 | 170.254 | KY 2486 north (Washington Street) | Southern terminus of KY 2486 | ||
106.325 | 171.114 | KY 2073 north (Halls Lane) | Southern terminus of KY 2073 | ||
Clay City | 109.298 | 175.898 | KY 2480 north (10th Avenue) | Southern terminus of KY 2480 | |
109.741 | 176.611 | KY 1057 east (11th Street) | Western terminus of KY 1057 | ||
109.978 | 176.992 | KY 2026 east (Pompeii Road) / KY 2481 south (9th Street) | Western terminus of KY 2026; northern terminus of KY 2481 | ||
110.513 | 177.853 | KY 2479 north (3rd Street) | Southern terminus of KY 2479 | ||
110.949 | 178.555 | KY 11 north (Black Creek Road) – Bluegrass Council Scouting Reservation, Camp McKee | North end of KY 11 concurrency | ||
111.466 | 179.387 | KY 3022 north (Lofty Heights Road) | Southern terminus of KY 3022 | ||
111.478– 111.511 | 179.406– 179.460 | Mountain Parkway east – Lexington | Interchange; Mountain Parkway exit 16 | ||
111.613 | 179.624 | Mountain Parkway west / KY 82 west (Irvine Road) – Campton, Irvine | Eastern terminus of KY 82; ramp to parkway to the south, 82 to the west; 15 turns north | ||
| 112.904 | 181.701 | KY 3352 south (Virden Ridge Road) | Northern terminus of KY 3352 | |
Clark | Goffs Corner | 117.692 | 189.407 | KY 974 (Kiddville Road/Trapp-Goffs Corner Road) to Mountain Parkway | |
Pilot View | 122.295 | 196.815 | KY 3368 north (Schollsville Road) | Southern terminus of KY 3368 | |
| 128.086 | 206.134 | KY 1958 | ||
| 128.718 | 207.152 | KY 1960 east (Ecton Road) | Western terminus of KY 1960 | |
Winchester | 129.449 | 208.328 | US 60 (North Main Street) | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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Location | Whitesburg, Letcher County |
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Length | 2.838 mi [1] (4.567 km) |
Kentucky Route 15 Business in Whitesburg, in Letcher County, signed as KY 15X, is the business route of KY 15 in Whitesburg. It begins at KY 15's southern terminus and ends at KY 15 north of town. The route is 2.838 miles (4.567 km) long.
Location | Whitesburg, Letcher County |
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Length | 0.24 mi [1] (390 m) |
Kentucky Route 15 Connector (KY 15C) provides access from KY 15 to KY 15X and the Letcher County Veterans Memorial Museum in Whitesburg. It is 0.24 miles (0.39 km) long.
Location | Hazard, Perry County |
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Length | 2.306 mi [1] (3.711 km) |
Kentucky Route 15 Business (KY 15 BUS) is a business route of KY 15 in Hazard, Perry County. It is the original alignment of KY 15 through the city. It is 2.306 miles (3.711 km) long.
Location | Campton, Wolfe County |
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Length | 1.058 mi [1] (1.703 km) |
Kentucky Route 15 Spur (KY 15 Spur) is the spur route connecting KY 15 with the Bert T. Combs Mountain Parkway's Exit 46 interchange at Campton, in Wolfe County. The length of this alignment is 1.058 miles (1.703 km) long. This roadway is not accessible from the Mountain Parkway's westbound lanes.
Interstate 24 (I-24) is an Interstate Highway in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. It runs diagonally from I-57, 10 miles (16 km) south of Marion, Illinois, to Chattanooga, Tennessee, at I-75. It travels through Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia. As an even-numbered Interstate, it is signed as an east–west route, though the route follows a more southeast–northwest routing, passing through Nashville, Tennessee. The numbering deviates from the standard Interstate Highway System grid, lying further north than its number would indicate west of Nashville.
U.S. Route 119 (US 119) is a spur of US 19. It is a north–south route that was an original United States highway of 1926. It is Corridor G of the Appalachian Development Highway System (ADHS) east of US 23 and KY 80 in Kentucky to Interstate 64 at Charleston, West Virginia.
The Appalachian Development Highway System (ADHS) is a series of highway corridors in the Appalachia region of the eastern United States. The routes are designed as local and regional routes for improving economic development in the historically isolated region. It was established as part of the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, and has been repeatedly supplemented by various federal and state legislative and regulatory actions. The system consists of a mixture of state, U.S., and Interstate routes. The routes are formally designated as "corridors" and assigned a letter. Signage of these corridors varies from place to place, but where signed are often done so with a distinctive blue-colored sign.
Kentucky Route 9 (KY 9) is a 116.285-mile-long (187.143 km) state highway maintained by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. The highway extends from Grayson to Newport, roughly paralleling the Ohio River between Vanceburg and Newport.
Kentucky Route 55 is a 140.858-mile-long (226.689 km) state highway in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Kentucky Route 80 (KY 80) is a 483.55-mile-long (778.20 km) state highway in the southern part of the U.S. state of Kentucky. The route originates on the state's western border at Columbus in Hickman County and stretches across the southern portion of the state, terminating southeast of Elkhorn City on the Virginia state line. It is the longest Kentucky State Highway, though the official distance as listed in route logs is much less due to multiple concurrencies with U.S. Route 68 (US 68) and US 23.
The William H. Natcher Green River Parkway was the designation for a 72.3-mile-long (116.4 km) freeway that ran from Bowling Green to Owensboro in the US commonwealth of Kentucky. The Natcher Parkway was one of nine highways that were a part of Kentucky's parkway system. The portion north of Interstate 65 (I-65) was signed as I-165, and the portion south of I-65 as Kentucky Route 9007 on March 6, 2019.
U.S. Route 31E (US 31E) is the easternmost of two parallel routes for U.S. Highway 31 from Nashville, Tennessee, to Louisville, Kentucky.
U.S. Route 31W is the westernmost of two parallel routes for U.S. Route 31 from Nashville, Tennessee to Louisville, Kentucky. At one time, it split with U.S. Route 31E at Sellersburg, Indiana, crossing into nearby Louisville via the Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Bridge. Tennessee State Route 41 is its unsigned companion route in Tennessee.
The Hal Rogers Parkway, formerly named the Daniel Boone Parkway, connects Somerset and Hazard in southeastern Kentucky. This toll road opened in November 1971, and the tolls were removed June 1, 2003. The original extent of the highway was to be 65.70 miles (105.73 km) with that mileage to have been included with an unconstructed limited-access London bypass and what is east of this area. The original portion of the road is designated unsigned Kentucky Route 9006. An extension of the Hal Rogers Parkway name west along Kentucky Route 80 (KY 80) to U.S. Route 27 (US 27) in Somerset was made in 2015 bringing the total mileage to 91.135 miles (146.668 km).
The Bert T. Combs Mountain Parkway, commonly known as the Mountain Parkway, is a freeway in eastern Kentucky. The route runs from Interstate 64 just east of Winchester southeast for 75.627 miles (121.710 km) to a junction with U.S. Route 460 near Salyersville. The first 46 miles (74 km), beginning at the western terminus in Winchester is a four-lane limited access highway with only minor design standard differences from an Interstate Highway, while the remainder is a limited access Super two highway.
Interstate 66 (I-66) is a canceled Interstate Highway designated in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991 as the East–West TransAmerica Corridor and High Priority Corridor 3. The US Department of Transportation originally planned to extend the current I-66 from its western terminus at Middletown, Virginia, across the country to California. The route west of Kansas was not favored by any of the related state highway departments, and, as a result, I-66 west of Wichita, Kansas, through New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California was canceled. Among the reasons for this were lack of interest from any of the state highway departments, and the insufficient projected traffic did not justify an Interstate, especially since many segments had no preexisting highway. The National Park Service was strongly opposed to building I-66 across the Death Valley National Park. The choice for the number I-66 was a hope to capitalize on name association with the decommissioned US Route 66 (US 66). The case for westward expansion of I-66 was started by businesspeople in Wichita. Furthermore, there were no plans to build I-66 across the West Virginia–Virginia state line, leaving it as a non-contiguous highway. The I-66 concept was supported in Kentucky mainly because of the efforts of Representative Hal Rogers; however, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) completed its feasibility study in 2005 and concluded that building I-66 was too costly and of little traffic benefit with high potential environmental impact and canceled the project in that state. The only remaining study of I-66 was conducted by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) under the 66 Corridor Study, a Tier 1 environmental impact statement (EIS). This study was canceled August 6, 2015, by IDOT, and, subsequently, the FHWA announced the cancellation of the EIS in the Federal Register, ending the last I-66 project and therefore officially canceling the I-66 Trans America Highway.
Kentucky Route 155 is a 20.788-mile-long (33.455 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The route originates at a junction with U.S. Route 31E and US 150 in Louisville, Kentucky. On the other side of intersection, KY 155 becomes a local road called Trevilian Way. KY 155 continues through several Louisville suburbs to Jeffersontown, Kentucky and into Spencer County, where it eventually merges with Kentucky Route 55 a few miles north of Taylorsville, Kentucky.
Interstate 69 (I-69) in the US state of Kentucky is a 148.1-mile-long (238.3 km) freeway running from Fulton to Henderson. The route makes use of the entirety of the former Purchase Parkway and existing portions of I-24, the Western Kentucky Parkway, and the Pennyrile Parkway. Eventually, I-69 will leave the former Pennyrile Parkway just south of the Audubon Parkway interchange or remain on its current alignment and travel through Henderson on U.S. Route 41 (US 41) north into Indiana. The proposed route for the remainder of I-69 in Kentucky travels about 10 miles (16 km) to utilize an as-of-yet-unbuilt bridge into Indiana.
U.S. Route 62 (US 62) in Kentucky runs for a total of 391.207 miles (629.587 km) across 20 counties in western, north-central, and northeastern Kentucky. It enters the state by crossing the Ohio River near Wickliffe, then begins heading eastward at Bardwell, and traversing several cities and towns across the state up to Maysville, where it crosses the Ohio River a second time to enter the state of Ohio.
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The Wendell H. Ford Expressway, also known as the Owensboro Bypass, is a major partial beltway that runs around the outer parts of the city of Owensboro, Kentucky. With a length of 13.057 miles (21.013 km), the expressway includes parts of U.S. Route 60 (US 60) and US 231.
Kentucky Route 550 (KY 550) is a 43.212 miles (69.543 km) state highway in eastern Kentucky that runs from Kentucky Routes 15 and 80 in northwestern Hazard to Kentucky Route 80 and Judge Road in Eastern via Darfork, Dwarf, Fisty, Carrie, Hindman, Garner, Mousie, Lackey, Garrett, and Eastern.
Interstate 169 (I-169) is a 34.3-mile-long (55.2 km) freeway that travels along the former southern section of the Pennyrile Parkway in Kentucky. The highway was designated on May 7, 2017, after President Donald Trump signed legislation designating the route. It travels north from a trumpet interchange with I-24 south of Hopkinsville to a cloverleaf interchange with its parent, I-69, and the Western Kentucky Parkway near Nortonville.
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