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Interstate 24 in Kentucky

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Interstate 24 marker
Interstate 24
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Route information
Maintained by KYTC
Length93.373 mi[1] (150.269 km)
ExistedAugust 18, 1964 (1964-08-18)–present
HistoryCompleted May 23, 1980
NHSEntire route
Major junctions
West end I-24 at the Illinois state line near Paducah
Major intersections
East end I-24 near Oak Grove
Location
CountryUnited States
StateKentucky
CountiesMcCracken, Marshall, Livingston, Lyon, Caldwell, Trigg, Christian
Highway system
  • Kentucky State Highway System
← US 23→ KY 24

Interstate 24 (I-24) is part of the Interstate Highway System that runs 316.36 miles (509.13 km) from Pulleys Mill, Illinois, to Chattanooga, Tennessee. In Kentucky, the Interstate runs in a northwest-to-southeast alignment in the western part of the state through the Jackson Purchase and Pennyroyal Plateau regions, from the Ohio River at the Illinois border to the Tennessee line near Fort Campbell and Clarksville, Tennessee. The Interstate runs for a total of 93.37 miles (150.26 km) in Kentucky, serving Paducah and providing access to other cities via U.S. and state routes. It also crosses the Tennessee River and Cumberland River near Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. Unlike many Interstate Highways, I-24 does not closely parallel any U.S. Route in Kentucky. Whitehaven, a historic house in Paducah built in 1865, is used as the western Kentucky welcome center.

When the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 was passed, no Interstate Highway was allocated for western Kentucky, and the road that became I-24 was planned to run between Nashville and Chattanooga. Around this time, Kentucky officials began lobbying for an Interstate Highway in this region, and the state, along with Tennessee, Illinois, and Missouri began to advocate for a new Interstate between Nashville and St. Louis. After many years of debate, the states reached an agreement for the highway's alignment in 1963, and the following year, the Federal Highway Administration approved an extension of I-24 into Kentucky. Construction on I-24 in Kentucky began in 1967 and was completed in 1980, making it the last mainline Interstate Highway in the state to be finished. In 2018, a section of I-69 was routed onto a concurrency with I-24 as part of an extension of this Interstate into Kentucky.

Route description

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I-24/I-69 approaching the Tennessee River bridges near Calvert City.

I-24 is maintained by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC), along with all other Interstate, US, and state highways in Kentucky. In 2025, annual average daily traffic counts ranged from 21,740 vehicles east of the eastern interchange with I-69 to 44,483 vehicles between US 45 and KY 1954 in Paducah.[2]

I-24 enters the Jackson Purchase region of western Kentucky from Illinois on a north–south alignment on the Interstate 24 Ohio River Bridge across the Ohio River. This two-span bridge is a tied-arch bridge, and has a total length of 5,623 feet (1,714 m). Immediately within McCracken County, the route begins gradually veering southeast and enters the western fringes of Paducah a few miles later. In Paducah, the Interstate continues to shift southeast and has an interchange with US 60. A short distance later is an interchange with US 62 and US 45, which are connected via frontage roads.[3][4] This interchange also provides access to the western I-24 Kentucky welcome center at Whitehaven, which is the only historic house in the United States used as a rest area.[5] Passing through the Hendron and Farley communities adjacent to Paducah, the highway shifts into a direct east–west alignment several miles later and crosses the Clarks River before reaching an interchange with US 68 in Reidland. The route then enters Marshall County and, about seven miles (11 km) later, has an interchange with I-69 and a connector road to US 62 and Calvert City to the north. Here, it begins a concurrency with the former. The two Interstates then shift northeast and have an interchange with US 62 about one mile (1.6 km) later. A short distance later, the Interstates cross the Tennessee River on the 2,108-foot-long (643 m) Luther Draffen Bridges, which are tied-arch bridges. Here, the Interstates enter the Pennyroyal Plateau and Livingston County just north and downstream of Kentucky Dam and its Kentucky Lake impoundment. The highways then have an interchange with Kentucky Route 453 (KY 453) north of Lake City and Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. They then cross the Cumberland River on the Ralph Smith Bridge about three miles (4.8 km) later into Lyon County a few miles north of Barkley Dam and Lake Barkley.[3][4]

I-24 westbound near Eddyville, approaching I-69/Western Kentucky Parkway.

Gradually veering eastward, the two Interstates reach KY 93/US 62/US 641 near Kuttawa and Eddyville. Less than two miles (3.2 km) later, I-69 splits off to the northeast at a trumpet interchange, and I-24 passes through Mineral Mound State Park, veering southeast a few miles later. Passing through a mostly wooded area, the Interstate crosses KY 93 without an interchange, and a short distance beyond has an interchange with KY 293 near the Kentucky State Penitentiary. It then crosses Eddy Creek and an inlet of Lake Barkley a few miles later. Some distance later, the freeway enters a landscape consisting mostly of farmland and dips briefly into the southern tip of Caldwell County, where it has an interchange with KY 139. The Interstate then enters Trigg County and crosses the Muddy Fork Little River a short distance later. About five miles (8.0 km) later, the Interstate has an interchange with US 68 and KY 80 between Cadiz and Hopkinsville. The highway then crosses into Christian County a few miles later. Passing over the next several miles through additional farmland and bypassing Hopkinsville to the southwest, the Interstate reaches the southern terminus of I-169 at a trumpet interchange. About four miles (6.4 km) later, the Interstate has a partial cloverleaf interchange with US 41 Alternate, which provides access to Hopkinsville to the north and Fort Campbell and Clarksville, Tennessee, to the south. I-24 then crosses into Tennessee about five miles (8.0 km) later.[3][4]

History

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Predecessors and planning

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When the United States Numbered Highway System was established in 1926, several roads in western Kentucky were given designations. In 1956, Congress passed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, which created and authorized federal funding for the Interstate Highway System. The highway that became Interstate 24 was authorized between Nashville and Chattanooga, as had been planned since the late 1930s.[6] Around this time, officials in western Kentucky began advocating for an Interstate Highway in western Kentucky. In 1957, officials in Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Tennessee began an effort to extend I-24 west of its allocated western terminus in Nashville to St. Louis. They argued that such a highway was needed to improve connectivity between St. Louis and Nashville, as well as between Atlanta and Chicago. The new route was also stressed because of the importance of Fort Campbell, established in 1941 as the home of the 101st Airborne Division; and the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, which was established in 1950 by the United States Atomic Energy Commission and became one of the top producers of enriched uranium during the Cold War.[7]

A map produced by The Nashville Tennessean in 1963 showing some of the proposed routes for the extension.

The four states had difficulty reaching an agreement for the proposed routing, and spent the next several years studying different proposals. The first major alignment, which evolved between 1957 and 1958, had I-24 run concurrently with I-40 west of Nashville for about 40 miles (64 km) to near Dickson, Tennessee, before splitting off to the northwest and crossing the Kentucky Lake impoundment of the Tennessee River a few miles before entering Kentucky, and avoiding the Cumberland River completely. From here, the route passed through Murray, Mayfield, and west of Paducah in a north–south direction. This alignment was favored by officials in Tennessee and western Kentucky, and later the Bureau of Public Roads (BPR), the predecessor agency to the Federal Highway Administration.[8][9][10] In January 1958, the highway departments in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Illinois submitted a joint request to the BPR for this route, and their engineers recommended I-24 cross the Ohio River near Paducah and south of Metropolis, Illinois, one month later.[11][12] In late 1958, a new "straight-line" route to the east was proposed that crossed the Ohio River near Salem, passed through Eddyville, Princeton, Cadiz, and Hopkinsville, and entered Tennessee near Clarksville. To the west, this route would continue straight to St. Louis. This was proposed by a group composed of delegates from cities along this route, who argued it would be more cost-effective.[13][8][14] By 1959, proposals called for the Interstate to turn west and cross the Ohio River near Cairo, Illinois. It would then cross the Mississippi River into Missouri a short distance later and continue to St. Louis.[9][10] When Henry Ward became the state highway commissioner in September 1960, additional proposals began to arise, including eastern alignments similar to the 1958 proposal. Governor Bert Combs, who once owned shares in a motel in Gilbertsville, and other state officials were also accused of trying to shift the route to the east.[9] A toll road was also proposed between Princeton and Paducah if I-24 was not built in the area.[10]

By 1963, two major alignments were under consideration that were combinations of previous proposals. The first was a route through Murray, Mayfield, and Paducah that mirrored the original proposal and terminated with I-57 near Pulleys Mill. The second alignment would continue northwest out of Nashville and enter Kentucky near Clarksville and Fort Campbell, pass southwest of Hopkinsville, north of the Land Between the Lakes, and south of Paducah, but cross the Ohio River near Cairo and continue to St. Louis like the original proposal.[10] The latter alignment was favored by many officials in Tennessee and western Kentucky, but the federal government preferred the former, due to its to Fort Campbell and the Paducah enrichment plant.[9][15] The states also incorporated a new Interstate Highway, which was once proposed to be named I-24W, between I-55 in Hayti, Missouri, and I-40 in Jackson, Tennessee. This included a then-unbuilt bridge across the Mississippi River that had been proposed since the 1930s.[16][17]

On September 17, 1963, the governors of the four states, in a meeting with President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges, and BPR Administrator Rex Marion Whitton, reached a compromise on the alignment for I-24's extension. This alignment largely consisted of the eastern proposal through Kentucky, but shifted to the Paducah-to-Pulleys Mill alignment instead of continuing to St. Louis. They also urged approval of the Hayti-to-Jackson Interstate, and Missouri Governor John M. Dalton said that his state would not accept the I-24 routing unless a bridge between Missouri and Tennessee was approved. However, Dalton agreed that the Cairo alignment, which would have crossed the Mississippi River approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of the Ohio River crossing, would have been too costly.[15][16] This routing, however, became an issue in the gubernatorial election later that year, when it threatened to shift the historically-Democratic vote in the Jackson Purchase area to Republican nomineee Louie Nunn. Democrat nominee Ned Breathitt, who ultimately won, proposed an east–west toll road in the region between Fulton and Kentucky Dam as consolation.[9] On August 18, 1964, the BPR approved the extension between Nashville and Pulleys Mill, establishing I-24 in Kentucky for the first time. They also authorized the westernmost portion of the other Interstate Highway between Missouri and Tennessee, which they designated I-155, but did not approve the entire route to Jackson.[18][19]

Construction

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A groundbreaking ceremony for the first stretch of I-24 in Kentucky, the approaches for the bridges over Eddy Creek, was held on December 6, 1967.[20][21] Construction on the Ohio River Bridge began in June 1968, and was initially slated for completion in 1970.[22][23] However, the project experienced many delays caused by poor weather and faulty welds that were repaired with bolts.[24] Work on the Cumberland River bridge began in 1972, but issues caused by unusual rock formations at the site, believed to have been formed by the 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes or earlier seismic events, delayed completion and resulted in the cost nearly tripling.[25] On October 18, 1974, the stretch between US 45 in Metropolis, Illinois, and US 60 in Paducah, including the Ohio River bridge, opened to traffic, after many delays.[26][27] The approximately 32-mile (51 km) segment between US 68 near Hopkinsville and US 79 in Clarksville was jointly opened to traffic by both states on September 12, 1975.[28][29] In late October 1977, the stretch between US 68 in Reidland and US 62 east of Calvert City was completed.[26][30] The section between US 60 in Paducah and US 68 in Reidland was opened and dedicated by Governor Julian Carroll on December 15, 1978.[31] The 2.5-mile (4.0 km) section between US 62 near Calvert City and KY 453, including the Tennessee River Bridge, which had been completed approximately five years prior, was opened to traffic on October 25, 1979.[32] On December 10, 1979, the stretch between KY 453 and US 62/US 641 in Eddyville, including the Cumberland River Bridge, was opened.[33] On March 20, 1980, the 2.7-mile (4.3 km) stretch in Eddyville between US 62/US 641 and the Western Kentucky Parkway (now I-69), along with the westernmost 3.4 miles (5.5 km) of the latter route, was opened.[34] I-24 was completed when the 23-mile (37 km) section opened to traffic from what is now I-69 to US 68 east of Cadiz on May 23, 1980.[26][35]

Later history

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Whitehaven, the only historic house used as a rest area in the United States.

In 1981, Governor John Y. Brown Jr. and transportation secretary Frank Metts suggested that the Anderson-Smith House, a historic plantation house dating to the 1860s, be used as the western I-24 Kentucky welcome center. The home, which was abandoned and had fallen into disrepair, had been sold to Paducah Junior College earlier that year, which could not afford to restore it. After a brief archaeological restoration, the house was carefully restored using as much original material as possible and opened as a rest area, renamed Whitehaven, on June 23, 1983.[5][36] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 1, 1984.[37]

An extension of I-69 through Kentucky was proposed under the 1991 Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) as part of a corridor to facilitate trade between Canada and Mexico. This extension was further spearheaded by the enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994. This extension, sometimes considered part of the unofficial NAFTA superhighway, was proposed to utilize some of the existing controlled-access parkways between the Tennessee state line and the Ohio River at the Indiana state line.[38] On May 15, 2006, then-Governor Ernie Fletcher announced that I-69 would run on a concurrency with I-24 for 17 miles (27 km) between the Purchase Parkway and the Western Kentucky Parkway, along with both parkways, and Future I-69 signs were posted soon thereafter.[39][40] On November 20, 2015, a contract was awarded to reconstruct the purchase parkway interchange to eliminate the need to use loop ramps between I-24 and the future I-69. Work began on February 29, 2016,[41] and the project was completed in early July 2018. This allowed I-69 to be signed along this section of I-24 and the Purchase Parkway for the first time.[42][43]

The interchange with US 60 in Paducah was reconstructed into a diverging diamond interchange in 2019.[44][45]

Exit list

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CountyLocationmi[46]kmExitDestinationsNotes
Ohio River0.0000.000
 I-24 west – St. Louis, Chicago		Continuation into Illinois
Interstate 24 Ohio River Bridge
McCrackenPaducah2.9584.7603 KY 305 – Paducah
4.3286.9654
 I-24 BL east / US 60 – Paducah, Wickliffe		Western terminus of I-24 Bus.; access to Kentucky Oaks Mall
6.387–
6.865		10.279–
11.048		7 US 45 / US 62 – Bardwell, MayfieldAccess to Whitehaven welcome center
​11.03517.75911
 I-24 BL west / KY 1954 (Husband Road) – Paducah		Eastern terminus of I-24 Bus.
​16.15325.99616 US 68 – Paducah
Marshall​24.96140.17125

 I-69 south to US 62 – Fulton, Calvert City		Western end of I-69 concurrency; signed as exits 25A (south) and 25B (north)
Calvert City26.56542.75227 US 62 – Kentucky Dam, Calvert City
Livingston​30.72949.45431 KY 453 – Grand Rivers, SmithlandServes Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area
LyonKuttawa39.55363.65440 KY 93 / US 62 / US 641 – Eddyville, Kuttawa
Eddyville41.64767.02442

 I-69 north to Western Kentucky Parkway (KY 9001) – Henderson, Elizabethtown		Eastern end of I-69 concurrency; I-69 exit 68
​44.73271.98945 KY 293 – Princeton
Caldwell​55.63289.53156 KY 139 – Princeton, Cadiz
TriggCadiz65.313105.11165 US 68 / KY 80 – Cadiz, HopkinsvilleServes Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area
Christian​72.692116.98673 KY 117 – Newstead, Gracey
​81.243130.74881
 I-169 north – Hopkinsville		Southern terminus of I-169, formerly known as the Pennyrile Parkway; exit 1 on I-169
Hopkinsville–Oak Grove line85.608137.77386
 US 41 Alt. – Hopkinsville, Fort Campbell
Oak Grove88.761142.84789 KY 115 – Oak Grove, PembrokeServes the Jefferson Davis Monument State Historic Site
​93.373150.269
 I-24 east – Clarksville, Nashville		Continuation into Tennessee
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

Paducah business loop

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Interstate 24 Business marker
Interstate 24 Business
LocationPaducah, Kentucky
Length11.2 mi[47] (18.0 km)
Existed2002[citation needed]–present

Interstate 24 Business (I-24 Bus.) is an 11.2-mile-long (18.0 km) business loop of I-24 that travels through downtown Paducah, Kentucky. It begins at I-24 and US 60 at exit 4 and ends at I-24 and KY 1954 at exit 11. Originally designated as Interstate 24 Downtown (I-24 Dwtn.), the route was repurposed as I-24 Bus. in 2002. The highway follows US 60, US 60 Bus., and KY 1954.[3]

Major Intersections
The entire route is in McCracken County.

Locationmi[46]kmDestinationsNotes
Paducah0.00.0
 US 60 west (Hinkleville Road west) / I-24		Western terminus; western end of US 60 concurrency; I-24 exit 4
1.93.1
 KY 731 south (32nd Street)		Northern terminus of KY 731
2.43.9
 US 60 east (Joe Clifton Drive)


 US 60 Bus. east		Eastern end of US 60 concurrency; I-24 Bus. east follows US 60 Bus. east; US 60 east serves Baptist Health Paducah
2.64.2 US 45 (H.C. Mathis Drive)
4.47.1

 US 45 Bus. north (8th Street)		Western end of US 45 Bus. concurrency
5.28.4

 US 45 Bus. south (Kentucky Avenue)		Eastern end of US 45 Bus. concurrency
8.213.2

 US 60 Bus. west
US 60 / US 62

 KY 1954 east		I-24 Bus. west follows US 60 Bus. west; I-24 Bus. east follows KY 1954 east
Woodlawn-Oakdale8.814.2 KY 450
10.917.5
 KY 2187 north (Husband Road north)		Southern terminus of KY 2187
​11.218.0
 KY 1954 east (Husband Road) / I-24 – Kentucky Dam, Nashville, St. Louis		Eastern terminus; eastern end of KY 1954 concurrency; I-24 exit 11
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

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  1. ↑ "Table 1: Main Routes of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System Of Interstate and Defense Highways". FHWA Route Log and Finder List. Federal Highway Administration. December 31, 2021. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Traffic Counts". maps.kytc.ky.gov. Archived from the original on May 12, 2024. Retrieved 2024-07-29.
  3. 1 2 3 4 DeLorme (2024). Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer (Map) (2024 ed.). 1 in:2.5 mi. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 978-1946494704. {{cite map}}: Check |isbn= value: checksum (help)
  4. 1 2 3 Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (2020). Kentucky Official Highway Map (Map) (2020–2021 ed.). Scale not given. Frankfort: Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. Retrieved June 23, 2022.
  5. 1 2 Byars, Kat (June 24, 2023). "Whitehaven Welcome Center Celebrates 40th Anniversary". WPSD-TV. Paducah, Kentucky. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
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  7. ↑ Feldhaus, Rebecca (May 11, 2010). "At the heart of the Atomic City: Paducah's Gasesous Diffusion Plant". WKMS-FM. Murray, Kentucky. Retrieved September 6, 2026.
  8. 1 2 "Chandler Asked To Back 'Straight Line' Highway". The Daily Register. Harrisburg, Illinois. November 19, 1958. p. 1. Retrieved September 20, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 Powell, Bill (March 4, 1974). "I-24 lag stalls interstate completion". The Courier-Journal. Louisville. p. B-11. Retrieved September 6, 2026.
  10. 1 2 3 4 Kovach, Bill (August 11, 1963). "State Fighting Blocks I-24". The Nashville Tennessean. p. 2B. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
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  29. ↑ "First I-24 Section Opens". Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle. September 14, 1975. Retrieved April 27, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
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  32. ↑ Powell, Bill (June 27, 1979). "New Portion of I-24 Allows Use of Bridge over Tennessee River". The Courier-Journal. Louisville, Kentucky. p. B1. Retrieved June 1, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  33. ↑ Powell, Bill (December 11, 1979). "Carroll Spends Last Day Spreading Good News". The Courier-Journal. Louisville, Kentucky. p. B5. Retrieved June 1, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  34. ↑ Powell, Bill (March 21, 1980). "New Part of I-24 Finishes 4-Lane Route Across State". The Courier-Journal. Louisville, Kentucky. p. B1. Retrieved June 1, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
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  36. ↑ Holland, Richard (1989). Whitehaven: Rebirth of a Southern Mansion. Kuttawa, Kentucky: McClanahan Publishing House. pp. 11–28.
  37. ↑ "National Register Information System – Anderson-Smith House (#84001824)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. October 1, 2026. Retrieved April 28, 2026.
  38. ↑ Reschke, Michael (August 26, 2018). "I-69 from Canada to Mexico — a long way from finished". The Times-Mail. Bedford, Indiana. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
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