Western Kentucky Parkway

Western Kentucky Parkway
Western Kentucky Parkway
	Western Kentucky Parkway highlighted in red
Route information
	Maintained by KYTC
Length	98.485 mi (158.496 km)
Major junctions
West end	I-69 / I-169 near Nortonville
	US 431 / KY 70 near Central City; I-165 near Beaver Dam; I-65 in Elizabethtown;
East end	US 31W / KY 61 in Elizabethtown
Location
Country	United States
State	Kentucky
Counties	Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Ohio, Butler, Grayson, Hardin
Highway system
	Kentucky State Highway System; Interstate; US; State; Parkways;

The Wendell H. Ford Western Kentucky Parkway is a 98.5-mile (158.5 km) freeway running from Elizabethtown, Kentucky 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 acronym once used on its signs. The parkway carries the unsigned designation Kentucky Route 9001 (KY 9001) for its entire length.

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