Western Kentucky Parkway - Route Description

Route Description

The parkway passes the cities of Clarkson, Leitchfield, Caneyville, Beaver Dam, Central City, Madisonville, Dawson Springs, Princeton and Eddyville. The toll plazas were, from west to east:

• Mile 10, just west of Princeton. Although this toll plaza was demolished shortly after the road became a freeway, its location could still be seen in the form of a widened shoulder that was not removed until 2012.
• Exit 24, Dawson Springs
• Exit 58, Central City
• Exit 94, Caneyville (toll paid only by traffic exiting eastbound and entering westbound)
• Exit 107, Leitchfield

At exit 77 near Beaver Dam, the parkway intersects with the William H. Natcher Parkway, which goes from Bowling Green to Owensboro. At exit 37 near Madisonville, the parkway intersects with the Edward T. Breathitt Pennyrile Parkway, which runs from Hopkinsville to Henderson.

A service area featuring a gas station and an Arby's restaurant is located in the median, just west of the interchange with the Natcher Parkway. It is the only such service area in the entire Kentucky parkway system. (Two other service areas were once located on the old Kentucky Turnpike, a toll road from Louisville to Elizabethtown that predated the parkway system and later became part of I-65; they were closed when toll collection ended and the turnpike was officially absorbed into the Interstate Highway system.)