Interstate 65 in Kentucky - wikipedia Interstate 65 in Kentucky This article is about the section of Interstate 65 in Kentucky. For the entire route, see Interstate 65. Interstate 65 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 Bluegrass Parkway in Elizabethtown 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 North end : I - 65 at Indiana state line Highway system Interstate Highway System Main Auxiliary Suffixed Business Future Highways in Kentucky Interstate US State Parkways ← I - 64 KY 66 → 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. Contents 1 Route description 2 History 2.1 Kentucky Turnpike 2.1. 1 Original toll plazas and charges 2.1. 2 Service areas 2.2 21st century 3 Exit list 4 Auxiliary routes 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Route description 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. I - 65 also has interchanges with I - 265, I - 264, and a complex junction with I - 64 and I - 71 along the south bank of the Ohio River in central Louisville. From there, northbound motorists on I - 65 cross into Indiana on the Abraham Lincoln Bridge, while southbound I - 65 traffic enters Kentucky from Jeffersonville, Indiana via the John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge. The route is reportedly one of the heaviest traveled corridors in the United States, with average daily traffic volumes of 50,000 to 70,000 vehicles. Most of the route has been widened to six lanes throughout the state. The widest stretch of I - 65 in its entirety is in Louisville, at Kentucky Route 1065 ( Outer Loop ) where the mainline is 14 lanes wide. Interstate 65 northbound at the William H. Natcher Parkway in Bowling Green, Kentucky, with Clearview font signage The highway crosses between the Central and Eastern time zones at the border of Hart and LaRue counties, respectively. For most of 2016, the Ohio River Bridges Project routed all I - 65 traffic onto the Abraham Lincoln Bridge ( a six - lane cable - stayed bridge now carrying only northbound traffic ) while rebuilding the deck of the 1963 John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge to accommodate six lanes of all - southbound traffic. The project is also completing the rebuild of the Kennedy Interchange just south of both bridges in downtown Louisville. On December 30, 2016, both I - 65 bridges began using electronic toll collection ( ETC ) to charge motorists for their use of this previously toll - free Interstate crossing. History Kentucky Turnpike Kentucky Turnpike shield From July 25, 1954 until June 30, 1975, the portion from the outskirts of Louisville to Elizabethtown was a toll road bearing the Kentucky Turnpike name. It was signed with a distinctive sign featuring a cardinal, the state bird of Kentucky. Unlike most states, Kentucky law requires that tolls be removed when the original construction bonds are paid off. The road was thus the first of the state 's extensive system of toll roads to be made free. Unlike the other roads, which maintain their separate names when becoming toll - free, the Kentucky Turnpike signs were removed. It is today almost impossible to find any traces of its former toll status. Original toll plazas and charges The table below shows the original locations of the toll plazas, and toll charges for consumer - sized, or class 1 vehicles. Exit Location Through cars charge Enter or Exit 94 Elizabethtown ( at U.S. 62 ) 10 cents N / A 117 Shepherdsville ( at KY 44 ) 50 cents 25 cents 127 Louisville ( Outer Loop ) Free 10 cents 128 Louisville ( Fern Valley Road ) Full - length trip $ 0.60 Service areas In addition to toll plazas, the Kentucky Turnpike also provided two service areas just south of Lebanon Junction and just north of Shephardsville. They each provided a gas station and at least one fast food restaurant. They both closed when the turnpike was absorbed into the Interstate 65 corridor in June 1975, thus making the service area on the Wendell H. Ford Western Kentucky Parkway ( a.k.a. the `` WK Parkway '' ) the last remaining service areas on the toll road system, and still remained open even after the WK Parkway became toll - free in 1987, which is 27 years after the Kentucky Turnpike did so. 21st century On November 15, 2006, the stretch of I - 65 from Bowling Green to Louisville was renamed the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Highway. On February 12, 2007, a bill passed the Kentucky Senate to rename I - 65 in Jefferson County the `` Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway ''. Signage was posted July 25, 2007. On July 15, 2007, Kentucky officially raised its speed limits on Interstate and State Parkway Highways to 70 miles per hour ( 110 km / h ). Until that date, Kentucky was the only state along I - 65 's path that had a speed limit of 65 mph ( 105 km / h ). In 2008, Governor Steve Beshear ordered the entire route to be widened to a minimum of six lanes through the entire state. As of 2017, the majority of this project is complete. In July 2017, the KYTC opened a new interchange of I - 65 at mile marker 30 to provide access to the Kentucky Transpark near Bowling Green. The $66.8 million project, which began in 2016, would improve traffic conditions along I - 65 and U.S. 31W in northeastern Warren County. The first phase of the project include the new interchange, Exit 30, plus a four - lane connector road going from the interstate to U.S. 68 just east of Bowling Green. The second phase is building a two - lane connector road running from U.S. 68 to U.S. 31W between Bowling Green and Oakland, thus relieving congestion problems on both U.S. routes. This was the first new exit on I - 65 since 2002, when the interchange with KY 234 was built to connect downtown Bowling Green from the freeway. Exit List County Location mi km Exit Destinations Notes Simpson ​ 0.00 0.00 I - 65 south -- Nashville Continuation into Tennessee ​ 1.980 3.187 US 31W ( Main Street ) -- Franklin ​ 5.979 9.622 6 KY 100 ( Scottsville Road ) -- Scottsville, Franklin Warren ​ 20.568 33.101 20 Natcher Parkway -- Owensboro, Bowling Green Natcher Parkway exits 2A - B ; signed 20A ( south ) & 20B ( north ). Bowling Green 22.388 36.030 22 US 231 ( Scottsville Road ) -- Scottsville, Bowling Green ​ 25.732 41.412 26 KY 234 ( Cemetery Road ) -- Bowling Green Bowling Green 28.066 45.168 28 KY 446 to US 31W -- Bowling Green Serves National Corvette Museum ​ 30 KY 3145 to US 68 -- Bowling Green Serves Kentucky Transpark ; exit opened July 6, 2017 Oakland 35.631 57.343 36 US 68 ( Glasgow Road ) / KY 80 -- Oakland Northbound exit and southbound entrance Smiths Grove 37.578 60.476 38 KY 101 ( Main Street ) to US 68 -- Smiths Grove, Scottsville Also serves Nolin River Reservoir Barren ​ 43.135 69.419 43 Cumberland Parkway -- Somerset, Glasgow Cumberland Parkway exit 0 Park City 47.371 76.236 48 KY 255 ( Mammoth Cave Parkway ) to US 31W -- Park City, Brownsville Serves Mammoth Cave National Park Cave City 52.423 84.367 53 KY 70 ( Mammoth Cave Road ) / KY 90 -- Cave City, Glasgow Serves Mammoth Cave National Park Hart ​ 57.627 92.742 58 KY 218 ( Flint Ridge Road ) to KY 335 -- Horse Cave Munfordville 64.200 103.320 65 US 31W ( Main Street ) -- Munfordville ​ 70.407 113.309 71 KY 728 ( Bacon Creek Road ) -- Bonnieville LaRue Upton 75.896 122.143 76 KY 224 ( Upton Talley Road ) -- Upton Hardin Sonora 80.457 129.483 81 KY 84 ( Western Avenue ) to US 31W -- Sonora ​ 85.686 137.898 86 KY 222 ( Glendale Hodgenville Road ) to US 31W -- Glendale Elizabethtown 91.086 146.589 91 US 31W / KY 61 / Western Kentucky Parkway -- Hodgenville, Paducah, Elizabethtown Southbound exit to Dixie Avenue, Serves Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park ; WKP exit 137 93.345 150.224 93 Bluegrass Parkway -- Lexington, Bardstown 94.154 151.526 94 US 62 ( Mulberry Street ) / KY 61 -- Elizabethtown ​ 102.533 165.011 102 KY 313 ( Joe Prather Highway ) -- Radcliff, Vine Grove Bullitt Lebanon Junction 104.698 168.495 105 KY 61 ( Preston Highway ) -- Boston, Lebanon Junction ​ 111.773 179.881 112 KY 245 ( Clermont Road ) -- Bardstown, Clermont Shepherdsville 115.574 185.998 116 KY 480 ( Cedar Grove Road ) to KY 61 116.639 187.712 117 KY 44 ( 4th Street ) -- Mt. Washington, Shepherdsville ​ 121.722 195.893 121 KY 1526 ( John Harper Highway ) Jefferson ​ 125.143 201.398 125 I - 265 east ( Gene Snyder Freeway ) / KY 841 I - 265 exit 10 ; signed as exits 125A ( east ) & 125B ( west ) northbound. ​ 126.746 203.978 127 KY 1065 ( Outer Loop ) -- Okolona, Fairdale Southbound split exit ( east ) and ( west ) Louisville 128.328 206.524 128 KY 1747 ( Fern Valley Road ) 129.802 208.896 130 KY 61 ( Preston Highway ) / Grade Lane 130.710 210.357 131A I - 264 ( Watterson Expressway ) -- Louisville International Airport I - 264 exit 12 ; signed as exits 131A ( east ) and 131B ( west ) southbound. 130.792 210.489 131B Kentucky Exposition Center 132.601 213.401 132 KY 1631 ( Crittenden Drive ) -- Kentucky Exposition Center No access back to I - 65 Northbound ( must use exit 133 from Warnock Street ) 132.955 213.970 133 US 60 Alt. ( Eastern Parkway ) No access from I - 65 Southbound to ( Eastern Parkway, must use Arthur Street ) or back to I - 65 northbound ( must use Warnock Street for I - 65 North ) 133.767 215.277 134 KY 61 south ( Arthur Street ) South end of KY 61 overlap ; no northbound exit to Preston Street 133.978 215.617 134A KY 61 north ( Preston Street ) North end of KY 61 overlap ; northbound exit and southbound entrance 134.145 215.885 134B Woodbine Street Northbound exit and southbound entrance 134.675 216.738 135 St. Catherine Street west 135.195 -- 135.384 217.575 -- 217.879 136A Chestnut Street, Broadway ( US 150 ) Northbound exit and southbound entrance 135.649 218.306 136B Brook Street Northbound exit and southbound entrance 135.649 -- 135.919 218.306 -- 218.740 136C Muhammad Ali Boulevard, Jefferson Street -- Downtown Louisville Signed northbound as exit 136C 136.421 219.548 137 I - 64 / I - 71 north -- Lexington, St. Louis, Cincinnati I - 64 exit 5 ; I - 71 exit 1 Ohio River 137.318 220.992 John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge ( southbound ) Abraham Lincoln Bridge ( northbound ) I - 65 continues north into Indiana 1.000 mi = 1.609 km ; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus Incomplete access Auxiliary routes I - 265 : Forms three - quarters of a beltway around Metro Louisville. The signage runs from I - 65 to I - 71 on the northeast side of the Metro. It is cosigned with KY 841 for its entire length and is known as the Gene Snyder Freeway. Construction of the Lewis and Clark Bridge over the Ohio River to connect the Kentucky segment of I - 265 with the Indiana segment was completed and opened to traffic on December 18, 2016. See also Kentucky portal U.S. Roads portal Ohio River Bridges Project Roads in Louisville, Kentucky References ^ Jump up to : Adderly, Kevin ( January 27, 2016 ). `` Table 1 : Main Routes of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways as of December 31, 2015 ''. Route Log and Finder List. Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved March 31, 2016. Jump up ^ `` The Ohio River Bridges ''. Ohio River Bridges Project. March 31, 2016. Retrieved March 31, 2016. Jump up ^ Mitchell, Kyle ( December 29, 2016 ). `` Last - minute rush hits RiverLink offices hours before tolling begins ''. Louisville, KY : WDRB. Retrieved January 2, 2017. Jump up ^ Kleber, John E. ; Clark, Thomas D. ; Harrison, Lowell H. ; Klotter, James C., eds. ( 1992 ). `` Rivers ''. The Kentucky Encyclopedia. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0 - 8131 - 1772 - 0. Jump up ^ Kentucky Department of Highways ( 1973 ). Kentucky Official Highway and Parkway Map ( PDF ) ( Map ). c. 1 : 760,320. Frankfort : Kentucky Department of Highways. Kentucky Turnpike and Interstate 65 ( Toll schedule ) inset. Retrieved October 12, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Interstate 65 ''. Travel Mammoth Cave National Park : Guide and Map. MobileReference. 2010. ISBN 1 - 6050 - 1034 - 0. Jump up ^ Gerth, Joseph ( February 13, 2007 ). `` Senate OKs renaming I - 65 for King ''. The Courier - Journal. Louisville, KY. Jump up ^ Shafer, Sheldon S. ( July 25, 2007 ). `` Mayor, Democrats back I - 65 King plan ''. The Courier - Journal. Louisville, KY. Retrieved July 30, 2007. Jump up ^ `` Governor Fletcher Signs Speed Limit Bill '' ( Press release ). Commonwealth of Kentucky. March 21, 2007. Retrieved March 22, 2007. Jump up ^ Sergent, Don ( July 5, 2017 ). `` New I - 65 exit improves access to Transpark ''. Bowling Green Daily News. Retrieved July 6, 2017. Jump up ^ Kentucky Transportation Cabinet ( December 22, 2007 ). `` HIS Expanded Milepoint Route Log Extract ''. Archived from the original on November 9, 2007. Jump up ^ http://transportation.ky.gov/District-3/Documents/TIR%20July%203-7.pdf Jump up ^ Doyle, Darren ( July 6, 2017 ). `` Grand Opening of New I - 65 Exit 30 Held Today At Ky Transpark ''. EdmonsonVoice.com. Retrieved July 6, 2017. External links Route map : Google KML file ( edit help ) Display on Google Maps Template : Attached KML / Interstate 65 in Kentucky KML is from Wikidata Media related to Interstate 65 in Kentucky at Wikimedia Commons Interstate 65 Previous state : Tennessee Kentucky Next state : Indiana Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Interstate_65_in_Kentucky&oldid=805263965 '' Categories : Interstate 65 Interstate Highways in Kentucky Transportation in Louisville, Kentucky Transportation in Barren County, Kentucky Transportation in Bullitt County, Kentucky Transportation in Edmonson County, Kentucky Transportation in Hardin County, Kentucky Transportation in Hart County, Kentucky Transportation in Jefferson County, Kentucky Transportation in LaRue County, Kentucky Transportation in Simpson County, Kentucky Transportation in Warren County, Kentucky Hidden categories : Use mdy dates from March 2016 Articles using KML from Wikidata Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 14 October 2017, at 05 : 09. 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Question: where does time zone change on i 65
Answer: at the border of Hart and LaRue counties