U.S. Route 150 (US 150) in Kentucky is a 121.097-mile-long (194.887 km) east–west highway that runs from the Indiana state line above the Ohio River to US 25/KY 1249 at Mount Vernon.
 U.S. Route 150 | ||||
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 US 150 highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by KYTC | ||||
| Length | 121.097 mi[1] (194.887 km) | |||
| Existed | 1934–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |   I-64 / US 150 in Louisville | |||
| East end |   US 25 / KY 1249 in Mount Vernon | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Kentucky | |||
| Counties | Jefferson, Bullitt, Spencer, Nelson, Washington, Boyle, Lincoln, Rockcastle | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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Route description
editLouisville/Jefferson County
editStarting on the Sherman Minton Bridge over the Ohio River, I-64 and US 150 enter the city of Louisville. Shortly after going through the bridge, both routes encounter I-264 at a directional T interchange. The freeway continues as an elevated freeway along the riverfront, passing the nearby McAlpine Locks and Dam. On the next exit, US 150 leaves the freeway and enters onto 22nd Street. The route runs through the neighborhood of Portland and Russell along this street. South of Griffiths Avenue, US 150 splits into a one-way pair, with eastbound traffic continuing to use 22nd Street and westbound traffic using Dr. W. J. Hodge (21st) Street and 22nd Street Connector. South of Main Street and Market Street, US 150 runs concurrently with US 31W and US 60. US 150 then turns eastward along Broadway, departing from US 31W/US 60.
In downtown, US 150 encounters I-65 between 1st Street and Brook Street. However, there are no direct connections to northbound and from southbound I-65. Just west of the Cave Hill Cemetery, US 150 turns southeast along US 31E (Baxter Avenue). Both routes soon turn southeast on Bardstown Road. The two routes then serve Strathmoor Manor, Strathmoor Village, Wellington, I-264 (Watterson Expressway), West Buechel, and I-265/KY 841 (Gene Snyder Freeway). South of I-265, the road becomes a four-lane divided roadway. The road reaches the city limit of Louisville shortly after intersecting with KY 660.[2]
Mount Washington to Mount Vernon
editAfter leaving Louisville and Jefferson County, US 31E/US 150 begins to bypass downtown Mount Washington. Just before intersecting with KY 44, the road downgrades to a four-lane undivided highway. Shortly thereafter, it then downgrades to two lanes. The two routes then serve Coxs Creek, and Nazareth. In Bardstown, both US 31E and US 150 split at a roundabout. At the same intersection, US 150 begins running concurrently with US 62 for around 1⁄2 mile (0.80 km). Then, US 150 meets the Bluegrass Parkway (BG 9002) at a diamond interchange. The route then serves Fredericktown, St. Catharine, Springfield, and Texas. In Perryville, the route runs concurrently with US 68 for less than two blocks. KY 52 also begins to run concurrently with US 150.
In Danville, US 150 and KY 52 intersect US 127 Byp./US 150 Byp. (Danville Bypass). As both routes approach downtown, KY 34 and later US 127 briefly join in. After leaving downtown, KY 52 leaves US 150. After that, US 150 then enters onto a four-lane divided highway. This configuration is a continuation of the Danville Bypass. In Stanford, the route intersects with US 27 before returning to a two-lane undivided road. The route then serves Crab Orchard and Brodhead. In Mount Vernon, US 150 intersects with US 25/KY 1249. At this point, US 150 ends here.[2]
Major intersections
edit| County | Location | mi[1] | km | Exit | Destinations | Notes | ||
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| Ohio River | 0.000 | 0.000 |   I-64 west / US 150 west – New Albany, St. Louis | Continuation into Indiana | ||||
| Sherman Minton Bridge | ||||||||
| Jefferson | Louisville | 0.818 | 1.316 | 1 |   I-264 east – Shively | I-64 exit 1; I-264 exit 0 | ||
| 2.704 | 4.352 | I-64 east – Lexington | Eastern end of I-64 overlap; US 150 east follows exit 3 | |||||
| 2.829 | 4.553 | KY 3064 west (Portland Avenue) | Eastern terminus of unsigned KY 3064; one-way westbound only | |||||
| 2.954 | 4.754 | KY 3082 (Bank Street) | Eastern terminus of unsigned KY 3082; KY 3082 is one-way eastbound onto US 150 only | |||||
| 3.444 | 5.543 |     US 31W north / US 60 east (West Market Street) | Western end of US 31W / US 60 overlap | |||||
| 4.134 | 6.653 |  US 31W south / US 60 west (South 22nd Street) | Eastern end of US 31W / US 60 overlap | |||||
| 5.869 | 9.445 |  KY 1020 south (South Third Street) | ||||||
| 5.954 | 9.582 | KY 1020 north (South Second Street) | ||||||
| 6.101 | 9.819 |   I-65 south – Nashville | No direct access to northbound and from southbound I-65 | |||||
| 6.359 | 10.234 |  KY 61 south (South Preston Street) | ||||||
| 6.469 | 10.411 | KY 61 north (South Jackson Street) | ||||||
| 6.799 | 10.942 |  KY 864 south (South Shelby Street) | ||||||
| 6.909 | 11.119 | KY 864 north (South Campbell Street) | ||||||
| 7.488 | 12.051 |  US 31E north (Baxter Avenue) | Western end of US 31E overlap | |||||
| 7.736 | 12.450 |  KY 1703 south (Baxter Avenue) | Northern terminus of KY 1703 | |||||
| 7.966 | 12.820 |  KY 2860 (Grinstead Drive) | ||||||
| 8.763 | 14.103 |  US 60 Alt. (Eastern Parkway) | ||||||
| 10.263 | 16.517 |  KY 155 south (Taylorsville Road) | Northern terminus of KY 155 | |||||
| 11.345 | 18.258 | I-264 (Watterson Expressway) | I-264 exit 16 | |||||
| 12.238 | 19.695 | Bardstown Road (KY 2251 south) - Buechel Business District | Northern terminus of unsigned KY 2251 | |||||
| 12.415 | 19.980 | Hikes Lane (KY 2052 south) | Northern terminus of unsigned KY 2052 | |||||
| Progress Boulevard | Interchange | |||||||
| 13.488 | 21.707 | Bardstown Road (KY 2251 north) - Buechel Business District | Southern terminus of unsigned KY 2251 | |||||
| 14.695 | 23.649 |  KY 1932 north (Breckenridge Lane) | Southern terminus of KY 1932 | |||||
| 16.144 | 25.981 |  KY 1747 (South Hurstbourne Parkway) | ||||||
| 17.828 | 28.691 |  KY 1065 (Beulah Church Road / Seatonville
Road) | ||||||
| 18.317– 18.618 | 29.478– 29.963 |   I-265 / KY 841 (Gene Snyder Freeway) | I-265 exit 17 | |||||
| 21.467 | 34.548 |  KY 2053 west (Thixton Lane) | Eastern terminus of KY 2053 | |||||
| 23.32 | 37.53 |  KY 660 east (Waterford Road) | Western terminus of KY 660 | |||||
| Bullitt | | 23.688 | 38.122 |  US 31EX south – Mount Washington Business District | Northern terminus of US 31EX | |||
| Mount Washington | 25.257 | 40.647 |  KY 44 – Mount Washington Business District | |||||
| 25.93 | 41.73 | US 31EX north | Southern terminus of US 31EX | |||||
| | 27.759 | 44.674 |  KY 2674 north | Southern terminus of KY 2674 | ||||
| Spencer |
No major junctions | |||||||
| Nelson | Highgrove | 31.646 | 50.929 |  KY 48 east – Fairfield, Bloomfield | Western terminus of KY 48 | |||
| | 32.547 | 52.379 |  KY 480 west | Eastern terminus of KY 480 | ||||
| | 33.5 | 53.9 |  KY 523 | |||||
| Coxs Creek | 37.923 | 61.031 |  KY 509 – Fairfield | |||||
| Bardstown | 41.73 | 67.16 |  KY 332 (Old Nazareth Road) | |||||
| 43.059 | 69.297 |     KY 245 / US 31E Truck south / US 150 Truck east to I-65 / Bluegrass Parkway | Northern terminus of US 31E Truck; western terminus of US 150 Truck | |||||
| 43.847 | 70.565 |  KY 1430 west (West Beall Avenue) | Eastern terminus of KY 1430 | |||||
| 44.264 | 71.236 |   US 31E south / US 62 west (West Stephen Foster Avenue) to Bluegrass Parkway west – Airport | Eastern end of US 31E overlap; western end of US 62 overlap; traffic circle around Old Courthouse Building | |||||
| 44.206 | 71.143 | US 62 east (Bloomfield Road) – Bloomfield | Eastern end of US 62 overlap | |||||
| 44.646 | 71.851 |  KY 49 south – Loretto | ||||||
| 45.903 | 73.874 | KY 245 north / US 31E Truck north / US 150 Truck west | Western end of US 31E Truck overlap | |||||
| 46.155 | 74.279 | Bluegrass Parkway / US 31E Truck south – Lexington, Elizabethtown | Bluegrass Parkway exit 25; eastern end of US 31E Truck overlap | |||||
| | 48.065 | 77.353 |  KY 605 north | Western end of KY 605 overlap | ||||
| Botland | 48.939 | 78.760 | KY 605 south | Eastern end of KY 605 overlap | ||||
| Washington | Fredericktown | 52.372 | 84.285 |  KY 1872 (Fredricktown Road) | ||||
| | 55.969 | 90.073 |  KY 1030 (Bearwallow Road) | |||||
| | 57.068 | 91.842 |  KY 1724 (Cartwright Road) | |||||
| | 58.416 | 94.011 |  US 150 Bus. east – St. Catharine, Springfield | |||||
| | 59.684 | 96.052 |  KY 55 – Bloomfield | |||||
| | 60.174 | 96.841 |  KY 528 – Springfield, Lincoln Homestead State Park | |||||
| Springfield | 61.044 | 98.241 |  KY 555 to Bluegrass Parkway – Springfield, Lebanon | |||||
| | 61.158 | 98.424 |  KY 1584 | |||||
| | 62.309 | 100.277 |  KY 152 – Mackville, Springfield | |||||
| | 62.959 | 101.323 | US 150 Bus. west – Springfield | |||||
| Rineltown | 65.721 | 105.768 |  KY 2758 (Simmstown Road) | |||||
| | 66.544 | 107.092 |  KY 1195 (Short Line Road) | |||||
| | 72.144 | 116.105 |  KY 442 north | |||||
| Boyle | Perryville | 77.073 | 124.037 |  KY 1920 west (Jackson Street) – Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site | ||||
| 77.149 | 124.159 |   US 68 west / KY 52 west | Western end of US 68 / KY 52 overlap | |||||
| 77.258 | 124.335 |  US 68 east / KY 1856 south (Bragg Street) | Eastern end of US 68 overlap | |||||
| | 80.897 | 130.191 |  KY 1822 north (Quirks Run Road) | Western end of KY 1822 overlap | ||||
| Needmore | 81.436 | 131.059 | KY 1822 south (Parksville Cross Pike) | Eastern end of KY 1822 overlap | ||||
| Danville | 84.907 | 136.645 |  KY 3366 north (Bluegrass Pike) | |||||
| 85.35 | 137.36 |   US 127 Byp. / US 150 Byp. east | ||||||
| 86.268 | 138.835 |  KY 34 west (Lebanon Road) | Western end of KY 34 overlap | |||||
| 86.532 | 139.260 | US 127 north (Maple Avenue) | Western end of US 127 overlap | |||||
| 86.986 | 139.990 | US 127 south (South 4th Street) | Eastern end of US 127 south overlap (eastbound) | |||||
| 87.108 | 140.187 |  KY 33 north (North 3rd Street) | Eastern end of US 127 north overlap (westbound) | |||||
| 87.44 | 140.72 | KY 34 east (Old Wilderness Road) | Eastern end of KY 34 overlap | |||||
| 88.701 | 142.750 | KY 52 east (Lancaster Road) | Eastern end of KY 52 overlap | |||||
| | 90.041 | 144.907 | US 150 Byp. west | |||||
| | 91.169 | 146.722 |  KY 1273 east (Chrisman Lane) | Western end of KY 1273 overlap | ||||
| | 92.077 | 148.184 | KY 1273 west (Airport Road) | Eastern end of KY 1273 overlap | ||||
| Lincoln | | 94.626 | 152.286 |  KY 3248 – Hubble | ||||
| Stanford | 96.452 | 155.224 |  KY 300 | |||||
| 97.572 | 157.027 |  US 27 – Lancaster, Stanford | ||||||
| | 99.974 | 160.893 |  KY 78 – Stanford | |||||
| | 100.234 | 161.311 |  KY 1770 (Old US 150) | |||||
| | 106.045 | 170.663 |  KY 1369 – William Whitley House State Historic Site | |||||
| | 106.632 | 171.608 |  KY 2750 – Crab Orchard | |||||
| | 107.534 | 173.059 |  KY 643 | |||||
| | 108.536 | 174.672 |  KY 39 – Crab Orchard | |||||
| | 110.55 | 177.91 | KY 2750 (Copper Creek Road) | Western end of KY 2750 overlap | ||||
| | 110.86 | 178.41 | KY 2750 | Eastern end of KY 2750 overlap | ||||
| Rockcastle | | 112.752 | 181.457 | Fort Harrod Way | Former KY 2750 | |||
| | 113.273 | 182.295 |  KY 2250 (West Main Street) – Brodhead | |||||
| | 114.837 | 184.812 |  KY 2250 (East Main Street) / KY 3245 – Brodhead | |||||
| | 115.209 | 185.411 |  KY 1229 (Dug Hill Road) | |||||
| | 115.72 | 186.23 |  KY 70 west | |||||
| | 116.481 | 187.458 |  KY 1250 (Spiro Road) | |||||
| Maretburg | 118.391 | 190.532 |  KY 2108 (Maretburg Road) | |||||
| | 119.282 | 191.966 |   KY 461 to I-75 – Renfro Valley, Berea, Somerset | |||||
| | 120.011 | 193.139 |  KY 2549 (White Rock Road) | |||||
| Mount Vernon | 121.097 | 194.887 | US 25 / KY 1249 – London, Berea | Eastern terminus of US 150 | ||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References
edit- ^ a b Commonwealth of Kentucky. "Official DMI Route Log". Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- ^ a b "Overview map of US 150 (KY)" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
