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In the 19th century, much of the present-day route of US 31E was a stagecoach path between Louisville and Nashville, and before that a postal route at least by 1820. [ 5 ] Originally part of the Jackson Highway , the Works Progress Administration measured the total distance on US 31E in Kentucky as 147.8 miles (237.9 km).
Beginning at I-24 and ending at SR 111, the route is a controlled-access highway for approximately 24 miles (39 km). The highway goes north as a narrow four-lane freeway (concurrent with unsigned I-124) through downtown and has interchanges with West Main Street (exit 1), Martin Luther King Boulevard (exits 1A–B; unsigned SR 316), and Fourth Street (exit 1C; unsigned SR 389) before crossing ...
U.S. Route 27 (US 27) in Kentucky runs 201.120 miles (323.671 km) from the Tennessee border to the Ohio border at Cincinnati.It crosses into the state in the Lake Cumberland area, passing near or through many small towns, including Somerset, Stanford, and Nicholasville.
KY 101 (Main Street) to US 68 – Smiths Grove, Scottsville: Also serves Nolin River Reservoir: Barren 43.135: 69.419: 43: Cumberland Parkway east – Somerset, Glasgow: Cumberland Parkway exit 1A-B; Future I-365: Edmonson: No major junctions: Barren: Park City: 47.371: 76.236: 48: KY 255 (Mammoth Cave Parkway) to US 31W – Park City, Brownsville
Kentucky Lake's 2,064 miles (3,322 km) of shoreline, 160,300 acres (64,900 hectares) of water surface, and 4,008,000 acre-feet (4.9 billion cubic meters) of flood storage are the most of any lake in the TVA system. [32] Kentucky's 90,000 miles (140,000 km) of streams provides one of the most expansive and complex stream systems in the nation.
On the eastern side of town, Louisville Road carries US 31W, US 68, and KY 80 east and then northeast, where US 68 and KY 80 split off to the east just east of Bristow. US 31W passes within 0.5 miles (0.80 km) of an entrance to Mammoth Cave National Park near Park City , after crossing I-65 again, this time without direct access to the freeway.
Somerset is also near Cumberland Falls and the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area; its tourism industries are, in part, due to its scenic and varied landscape. [9] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 11.3 square miles (29 km 2), of which 11.3 square miles (29 km 2) is land and 0.09% is water.
I-65 – Bowling Green, Nashville, Elizabethtown, Louisville: Western terminus; I-65 exit 43; ... KY 914 east to KY 80 – Somerset, Burnside: Opened in 2010 [1] 88.2: