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Kentucky Bend is the extreme southwestern corner of Kentucky. The peninsula is traversed by the southern line of latitude of the state of Kentucky, at the banks of the Mississippi River. The only highway into the area is Tennessee State Route 22, [4] whose continuation into Kentucky Bend at one time was signed as Kentucky State Route 313. [5]
I-65 is maintained by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC), along with all other Interstate, U.S., and state highways in Kentucky. Along its 137.32-mile (221.00 km) length in Kentucky, [1] major attractions I-65 passes include the National Corvette Museum, Mammoth Cave National Park, Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, and Fort Knox before entering the state's largest metropolitan ...
The Dorena–Hickman Ferry connects the road with Kentucky Route 1354 in Kentucky. Route 77 was previously Route 55 , renumbered to avoid duplication with Interstate 55 . This route was created in 1922 from Wolf Island to Benton , and was extended to Dutchtown in the early 1930s.
Kentucky has more navigable miles of water than any other state in the union, other than Alaska. [29] Kentucky is the only U.S. state to have a continuous border of rivers running along three of its sides – the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and the Big Sandy River and Tug Fork to the east. [30]
US 51 / US 60 / US 62 at Illinois state line near Wickliffe: I-24 / US 45 / US 62 in Paducah; I-69 / US 41 in Henderson; I-165 in Owensboro; I-264 in Louisville; I-65 in Louisville; I-265 / KY 841 in Louisville; I-64 in Frankfort; I-75 in Lexington; US 23 between Ashland and Catlettsburg; East end: US 60 at West Virginia state line in Catlettsburg
In Missouri, I-55 runs from the southeastern part of the state, at the Arkansas border, to St. Louis. In the southern part of the state, I-55 meets I-57 in Sikeston . Then I-55 goes north to St. Louis, where I-44 merges in with I-55, and then I-64 (on the Poplar Street Bridge ), when crossing the Mississippi River into Illinois.
Interstate 35 (I-35) is an Interstate Highway that stretches from Laredo, Texas, in the south to Duluth in the north. The portion of it through Missouri travels nearly 115 miles (185 km) from just south of Kansas City, through the Downtown Loop, and across the Missouri River before leaving the downtown area.
The white supremacy group Ku Klux Klan began fighting several court battles with the state of Missouri after the state disputed its right to sponsor a stretch of freeway in Saint Louis County and Jefferson County, near St. Louis. In March 2001, after a US District Court judge found that blocking the Klan's sponsorship was unconstitutional, the ...