Interstate 69

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Signed along portions of the Purchase, Western Kentucky, and Pennyrile Parkways, Interstate 69 travels 126.805 miles through the Bluegrass State. I-69 serves to connect Mayfield and Benton in the southwest with Madisonville and Henderson in western reaches of the state.

Interstate 69 commences along the Julian M. Carroll (Purchase) Parkway at a trumpet interchange (Exit 21) with KY 80 southwest of Mayfield. The Purchase Parkway advances I-69 from the Graves County seat northeast to Benton before turning north to I-24 near Calvert City. I-69 joins I-24 for a 17 mile overlap across the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers as the two angle northeast to the Wendell H. Ford (Western Kentucky) Parkway near Eddyville. While Interstate 24 turns southeast for Tennessee, I-69 proceeds northeasterly along the Western Kentucky Parkway, bypassing Princeton and Dawson Springs to the north en route to Nortonville and the Edward T. Breathitt (Pennyrile) Parkway. Meeting at a directional cloverleaf interchange (Exit 106), Interstate 69 turns north along the Pennyrile Parkway for Madisonville and Henderson. I-69 concludes at U.S. 41 (Exit 148) ahead of the Audubon Parkway (KY 9005) and Henderson.

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Future plans call for extending Interstate 69 southwest from Mayfield along the Purchase Parkway to Fulton and the Tennessee line, and northward across a new Ohio River crossing into Indiana near Evansville. To be built in two sections, the Ohio River Crossing (ORX) project will connect the Kentucky and Indiana portions of I-69 along a new bypass of Henderson and a toll bridge spanning the river.



    Connect with:
    Interstate 24
    Edward T. Breathitt Parkway - Future I-169
    U.S. 41
    Audubon Parkway

    Page Updated 12-13-2023.

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