Interstate 65 | ||||
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Route information | ||||
Maintained by KYTC | ||||
Length: | 137.32 mi (221.00 km) | |||
Existed: | 1956 – present | |||
Major junctions | ||||
South end: | I-65 at Tennessee state line | |||
US 231 in Bowling Green US 68 in Oakland US 62 in Elizabethtown I-265 in Louisville I-264 in Louisville US 60 in Louisville US 150 in Louisville I-64 / I-71 in Louisville |
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North end: | I-65 at Indiana state line | |||
Highway system | ||||
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Interstate 65 (I-65) enters the US state of Kentucky 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Franklin. It passes by the major cities of Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, and Louisville before exiting the state.
Along its 137.32-mile (221.00 km) length in the Bluegrass State, I-65 passes Mammoth Cave National Park, Bernheim Forest, the National Corvette Museum and the Fort Knox Military Reservation before entering the state's largest metropolitan area, Louisville.
It has interchanges with four of the state's parkways. The first of these is with the William H. Natcher Parkway at Bowling Green, followed by the Louie B. Nunn Cumberland Parkway north of that city between Smiths Grove and Park City. At Elizabethtown, it has two more parkway interchanges with the Wendell H. Ford Western Kentucky Parkway and the Martha Layne Collins Bluegrass Parkway.