| Veterans Outer Loop | |
|---|---|
| Route information | |
| Length | 9.301 mi [1] (14.969 km) |
| Component highways | |
| Major junctions | |
| West end |  |
| |
| East end |  |
| Highway system | |
Veterans Outer Loop is a major bypass route in Glasgow, Kentucky. It is maintained by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC).
With a state route designation of Kentucky Route 3600 (KY 3600), the road begins at an intersection with KY 1297 (Old Bowling Green Road) near the exit 8 interchange of the Louie B. Nunn Cumberland Parkway before meeting the concurrently running U.S. Route 68 and KY 80, as well as US 68 Bus. It carries US 68 for its course from West Main Street/Bowling Green Road to the other US 68/US 68 Bus. intersection on the east side of town at Edmonton Road/Columbia Avenue. From there, it carries KY 1519 on the east side of Glasgow over Cumberland Parkway, and it ends at an at-grade intersection with KY 1307. [2] [3]
Construction of the outer loop began in the early 2000s, beginning with the section from US 68 (Bowling Green Road) to KY 90 (Happy Valley Road) to US 31E (Jackson Highway) on the west and north sides of Glasgow, which was completed in 2004. This first section was originally designated KY 3160. During the 2010/11 fiscal year, the road was extended to include another intersection with US 68, a new exit 15 interchange for Cumberland Parkway on the east side of town, ending with an intersection with KY 1307. When that extension was completed in 2012, the KY 3160 designation was retired when US 68 was rerouted onto the Outer Loop, and the original US 68 through Glasgow became US 68 Business.[ citation needed ]
On May 28, 2015, the Veterans Outer Loop was extended on Glasgow's west side. Construction of the extension began in late 2014. The extension traveled from the original western terminus to an intersection with Old Bowling Green Road (KY 1297). [4] The project also included a new interchange on Cumberland Parkway at mile marker 8.8, just east of Beaver Creek (a tributary of the Barren River), signed as exit 8. [5] [6] Once the new extension had been completed, the KYTC designated the western extension KY 3600. [5]
The entire route is in Glasgow, Barren County.
| mi [1] | km | Destinations | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.000 | 0.000 | | |||
| 0.383 | 0.616 |   | Louie B. Nunn Cumberland Parkway exit 8 | ||
| 2.501 | 4.025 |     | Eastern end of KY 3600 concurrency; western end of US 68 concurrency | ||
| 2.858 | 4.600 | Oil City Road | |||
| 3.778 | 6.080 |  | |||
| 5.011 | 8.064 | Old Munfordville Road | |||
| 5.713 | 9.194 |  | |||
| 8.00 | 12.87 |   | Eastern end of US 68 concurrency; northern end of KY 1519 concurrency; northern terminus of KY 1519 | ||
| 9.115 | 14.669 | | Louie B. Nunn Cumberland Parkway exit 15 | ||
| 9.301 | 14.969 | | Southern terminus of KY 1519 | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
| |||||
| |
|---|---|
| Location | near Glasgow |
| Length | 1.301 mi [1] (2.094 km) |
Kentucky Route 1519 (KY 1519) is a state highway in Barren County, Kentucky, that is the final 1.301 miles (2.094 km) of the Veterans Outer Loop. It starts at a junction with KY 1307, intersects the Louie B. Nunn Cumberland Parkway at its exit 15 interchange, and it ends at U.S. Route 68 (US 68) and KY 80 (Edmonton Road) on the east side of Glasgow. The Veterans Outer Loop continues as US 68 westbound.
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 U.S. Route 23.
The William H. Natcher Green River Parkway was the designation for a freeway that runs 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.
The Louie B. Nunn Cumberland Parkway is a 92-mile-long (148 km) east–west controlled-access highway in the U.S. state of Kentucky, extending from Barren County in the west to Somerset in the east. It is one of seven named highways designated in Kentucky's parkway system.
U.S. Route 31E (US 31E) is the easternmost of two parallel routes for U.S. Highway 31 from Nashville, Tennessee, to Louisville, Kentucky.
Kentucky Route 90 is a major east-west state highway in southern Kentucky. The route is 134.734 miles (216.833 km) long, and it traverses Barren, Metcalfe, Cumberland, Clinton, Wayne, Pulaski, McCreary and Whitley Counties in southern Kentucky. It originates near the KY 70 junction with Interstate 65 in Cave City and ends at a junction with US 25W at Youngs Creek.
Kentucky Route 70 (KY 70) is a long east-east state highway that originates at a junction with U.S. Route 60 (US 60) in Smithland in Livingston County, just east of the Ohio River. The route continues through the counties of Crittenden, Caldwell, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Butler, Edmonson, Barren, Barren, Metcalfe, Green, Taylor, Casey, Pulaski, Lincoln and back into Pulaski again to terminate at a junction with US 150 near Maretburg in Rockcastle.
Interstate 65 (I-65) enters the US state of Kentucky 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Franklin. It passes by the major cities of Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, and Louisville before exiting the state.
U.S. Route 231 in Kentucky runs 86.465 miles (139.152 km) from the Tennessee state line near Adolphus to the William H. Natcher Bridge on the Ohio River near Rockport, Indiana. It crosses the state mainly in the west-central region, traversing Allen, Warren, Butler, Ohio, and Daviess Counties.
Several special routes of U.S. Route 68 exist from Kentucky to Ohio. In order from west to east in Kentucky, and south to north in Ohio, these special routes are listed from the beginning of U.S. Route 68 to the end.
Kentucky Route 1297 (KY 1297) is a 22.063-mile-long (35.507 km) east–west state highway that traverses two counties in south-central Kentucky.
Kentucky Route 9007 is a 2-mile (3.2 km) four-lane limited-access highway, and was the unsigned designation for the entirety of the former William H. Natcher Parkway. KY 9007 is now the designation of the southernmost section of the former parkway between Interstate 65 (I-65) and U.S. Route 231, which opened in November 2011. KY 9007 was signed on March 6, 2019, when the majority of the Natcher Parkway was redesignated as I-165.
Kentucky Route 3600 (KY 3600) is a secondary urban state highway located entirely in Barren County, Kentucky.
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.
The original alignment of Kentucky Route 67 (KY 67) was a north–south primary state highway that traversed Edmonson and Warren counties in south central Kentucky. It was one of the original state routes of the state highway system maintained by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. It was established in 1929 and was officially decommissioned in 1969. At the time of its removal from the state route system, it was estimated to be 21.491 miles (34.586 km) long as determined by the KYTC's state route logs and county road logs.
Eagle Way is a major partial beltway that circles almost completely around the outer portions of the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
Kentucky Route 3160 (KY 3160) was a 3.212-mile-long (5.169 km) four-lane divided east-west state highway located entirely in Barren County in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Kentucky.
