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| Pennyrile State Forest | |
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| Nearest city | Hopkinsville, Kentucky |
| Coordinates | 37°4′20.28″N87°40′11.9999″W / 37.0723000°N 87.669999972°W Coordinates: 37°4′20.28″N87°40′11.9999″W / 37.0723000°N 87.669999972°W |
| Area | 15,468 acres (62.6 km²) |
| Established | 1930 |
| Governing body | Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forests |
Pennyrile State Forest is a state forest in Christian County, Kentucky, United States. It contains Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park and borders Lake Beshear. It is managed for sustainable timber production.
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Muldraugh Hill is an escarpment in Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, and Nelson counties of central Kentucky separating the Bluegrass on the north and north-east from the Pennyrile on the south and south-west. This escarpment fades into the Pottsville Escarpment on the east, and terminates at the Ohio River in the west, although in truth it continues in Indiana as Floyds Knobs.
The Cumberland Plateau is the southern part of the Appalachian Plateau in the Appalachian Mountains of the United States. It includes much of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, and portions of northern Alabama and northwest Georgia. The terms "Allegheny Plateau" and the "Cumberland Plateau" both refer to the dissected plateau lands lying west of the main Appalachian Mountains. The terms stem from historical usage rather than geological difference, so there is no strict dividing line between the two. Two major rivers share the names of the plateaus, with the Allegheny River rising in the Allegheny Plateau and the Cumberland River rising in the Cumberland Plateau in Harlan County, Kentucky.
Pennyrile may refer to any of the following:
The Tradewater River is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 136 miles (219 km) long, in western Kentucky in the United States. It drains an area of 932 square miles (2,410 km2) in the limestone hills south of Evansville, Indiana, between the basins of the Cumberland River on the west and the Green River on the east.
The Jefferson Memorial Forest is a forest located in southwest Louisville, Kentucky, in the Knobs region of Kentucky. At 6,500 acres (26 km2), it is the largest municipal urban forest in the United States.
Lake Beshear is a 760-acre (3.1 km2) reservoir located in Caldwell and Christian counties in Kentucky. Impounded in 1962, the lake lies within the Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park.
The Wendell H. Ford Western Kentucky Parkway is a 98.5-mile-long (158.5 km) controlled-access highway running from Elizabethtown, Kentucky to near Nortonville, Kentucky. It intersects with Interstate 65 (I-65) at its eastern terminus, and I-69 at its western terminus. It is one of seven highways that are part of the Kentucky parkway system. 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 for its entire length.
The Julian M. Carroll Purchase Parkway is a controlled-access highway in the US state of Kentucky running from Fulton to Mayfield, near Kentucky Dam, for a length of 21 miles (34 km). It begins at the Tennessee state line concurrent with U.S. Route 51 only a few yards from an intersection with US 45W, US 45E, and US 45 at its southern terminus, and at I-69 just north of US 45 at its northern terminus. It is one of seven highways that are part of the Kentucky Parkway System.
The Edward T. Breathitt Pennyrile Parkway was the designation for the 71.306-mile-long (114.756 km) controlled-access highway from Henderson to Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The parkway originally began at an interchange with the Audubon Parkway and US 41 near the city of Henderson. It travelled south through rolling hills to its former southern terminus at Interstate 24 (I-24) south of Hopkinsville. A seven-mile (11 km) section was left unconstructed from US 41 Alternate south to I-24 despite its approval in 1976 from the Parkway Authority for construction. This connection was completed and opened to the public on March 1, 2011. The first 1.8 miles (2.9 km) of the extension to the US 68 bypass were completed and opened to traffic in September 2008. The construction was then completed to exit 5, with the final section to I-24 opened on March 1, 2011. The parkway's northern terminus was truncated south to the Western Kentucky Parkway in 2013 when Interstate 69 was extended along that section of the highway. The remaining section of the Parkway was redesignated as Interstate 169 on May 7, 2017, thereby replacing the last section of the Pennyrile Parkway. Despite the designation changes, it continues to be referred to as the Pennyrile Parkway by most in the area.
Lake Barkley State Resort Park is a park on the eastern shore of Lake Barkley just west of Cadiz, Kentucky in Trigg County. The park encompasses 3,700 acres (1,500 ha) and is one of three Kentucky parks near Land Between the Lakes, a 170,000-acre (69,000 ha) isthmus between Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley.
Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park is a park located near Dawson Springs, Kentucky in Hopkins County. The park encompasses 863 acres (349 ha) and takes its name from a colloquial form of the word pennyroyal, a small flowering plant native to the area. Park features include a 24-room lodge with restaurant, 12 cottages, campground, multi-purpose trails, 18-hole golf course, and 56-acre (23 ha) lake with non-motorized boat rentals.
Interstate 69 (I-69) in the U.S. state of Kentucky is a 148.090-mile-long (238.328 km) freeway running from Mayfield to Henderson. The route made use of existing portions of the Purchase Parkway, 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 ten miles (16 km) to utilize an as-of-yet-unbuilt bridge into Indiana.
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.
U.S. Route 41 in the state of Kentucky is a north-south United States Numbered Highway that mainly goes through the western part of the state. It enters Kentucky in the Todd County community of Guthrie, and leaves the state north of Henderson into Indiana as well as the city of Evansville. The total length of US 41 through Kentucky is a total of 106.952 miles (172.123 km).
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the United States Commonwealth of Kentucky:
Pennyroyal may refer to:
Kentucky Route 91 is a 49.783-mile-long (80.118 km) state highway that traverses three counties in western Kentucky. It begins in Hopkinsville, Kentucky and ends at the Ohio River, the Kentucky-Illinois state line in northern Crittenden County.
Kentucky Route 109 (KY 109) is an 90.309-mile-long (145.338 km) north–south state highway that traverses four counties in Kentucky's Pennyrile region. It traverses Christian, Hopkins, Webster, and Union counties.
Kentucky Route 398 (KY 398) is a 8.354-mile-long (13.444 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The highway travels through mostly rural areas of Christian County.
Interstate 169 (I-169) is a 34.25-mile-long (55.12 km) freeway that travels along the former southern section of the Pennyrile Parkway in Kentucky. The highway was signed into law designating the route, along with the proposed extension of I-57 by President Donald Trump and was designated on May 7, 2017. 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.