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Interstate 275 West - Boone County

Interstate 275 West
Exit 2 leaves Interstate 275 west just beyond the Kenton County line. Mineola Pike serves a cluster of industrial and business parks on either side of the freeway. Photo taken 11/14/04.
Interstate 275 west at the Exit 2 ramp departure to Mineola Pike. Mineola Pike heads west to Kentucky 236 (Donaldson Way) outside the airport and north to Point Pleasant Road. Photo taken 11/14/04.
Kentucky 212 constitutes an expressway connection to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport from Interstate 275 at Exit 4. Photo taken 11/14/04.
One mile southeast of the Exit 4 partial-cloverleaf interchange with Kentucky 212 at the Point Pleasant Road overpass. Kentucky 212 travels just 1.13 miles from the airport terminal north to adjacent Kentucky 20 (Petersburg Road). Photo taken 11/14/04.
Exit 4A connects with Kentucky 212 east to Kentucky 20. Kentucky 20 (Petersburg Road) climbs southward from its beginning at Kentucky 8 (River Road) to a bevy of warehouses on the north side of the airport. Photo taken 11/14/04.
Westbound at the Exit 4A ramp departure to Kentucky 212 east for Kentucky 20. Kentucky 20 travels 20.6 miles overall between Kentucky 8 and Kentucky 18 at Belleview. The state route parallels Interstate 275 west to Idlewild. Photo taken 11/14/04.
A loop ramp joins Kentucky 212 west (south) to the airport. A diamond interchange along the expressway provides access to Kentucky 236 (Donaldson Road) for the Air Cargo facilities of the airport. Photo taken 11/14/04.

Attached to the Kentucky 20 (Petersburg Road) overpass is the two-mile guide sign for Exit 8 (Kentucky 237). Photo taken 11/14/04.
Kentucky 237 (Bend Road) travels the west side of Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport and the industrial parks associated with it along a four-lane highway. Photo taken 11/14/04.
A partial-cloverleaf interchange splits movements to Kentucky 237 (Bend Road) into separate ramps. Exit 8A carries drivers northward to a pair of industrial parks and sprawl of Francisville. Kentucky 237 ends at Kentucky 8 (River Road). Photo taken 11/14/04.
Exit 8B follows onto Kentucky 237 (Bend Road) south into Hebron. The state highway arcs southeast from the nearby community to Kentucky 536 near Interstates 71 & 75 (Exit 178), amid heavily suburbanized areas. Photo taken 11/14/04.
State-named reassurance shield posted along Interstate 275 west ahead of the Graves Road overpass. Photo taken 11/14/04.
Exit 11 connects Interstate 275 with parallel Kentucky 20 and the settlement of Idlewild. Photo taken 11/14/04.
One mile east of the Exit 11 partial-cloverleaf interchange with Kentucky 8 (unsigned here). Kentucky 8 is a segmented route that straddles the Ohio River through northern Kentucky. The connector between Kentucky 20 and Interstate 275 has no direct connection with the route to the north. Photo taken 11/14/04.
Kentucky 8 south to Kentucky 20 from Exit 11 provides a direct route to the Ohio River town of Petersburg to the west. Kentucky 20 overtakes Kentucky 8 as the Ohio River road south and east to Belleview. Photo taken 11/14/04.
Lawrenceburg, Indiana is the next exit and furthest west Interstate 275 achieves. 12 miles separate Exit 11 from the merge with Interstate 74 east in Ohio. Photo taken 11/14/04.

Approaching and spanning the Ohio River along the Carol C. Cropper Bridge of Interstate 275 west. Constructed in 1977, the bridge carries four overall lanes with a tied-arch cantilever design.1 Photos taken 11/14/04.

Sources:

  1. I-275 Carroll C. Cropper Bridge, Cincinnati-Transit.net.

Page Updated February 20, 2009.