 Western Kentucky Parkway | |
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 Western Kentucky Parkway highlighted in red | |
| Route information | |
| Maintained by KYTC | |
| Length | 98.485 mi[1] (158.496 km) |
| Major junctions | |
| West end |   I-69 / I-169 near Nortonville |
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| East end |   US 31W / KY 61 in Elizabethtown |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Kentucky |
| Counties | Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Ohio, Butler, Grayson, Hardin |
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The Wendell H. Ford Western Kentucky Parkway is a 98.5-mile-long (158.5 km) freeway running from Elizabethtown 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 initials that were once used on its signs prior to the 1998 renaming.[2] The parkway carries the unsigned designation Kentucky Route 9001 (KY 9001) for its entire length.
- ^ Division of Planning. "Highway Information System Official Milepoint Route Log Extract". Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. Archived from the original on April 30, 2007. Retrieved April 8, 2007.
- ^ "WK-9001 Signing plans (1963)". Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. Retrieved October 12, 2024.