cave city ky is at exit 53 on i 65.
what exit is cave city ky on i 65?
53
kentucky route 90 begins at cave city at an intersection with ky 70, equipped with a traffic light, in the one part of the city where many restaurants, hotels, and gas stations are located. it is a major tourism hot-spot due to the close proximity to mammoth cave national park, in nearby edmonson county, along with few other attractions along ky 70 west of the city. signs at the i-65 exit tend to imply that ky 90 ends at the exit itself, while state highway documents indicate that the end is at the intersection with ky 70, about from the exit proper. in spite of this, both ky 70 and ky 90 markers appear on the signage for exit 53 of i-65. after ky 90's first mile, it intersects u.s. route 31w, still within city limits of cave city.
kentucky route 90
kentucky route 2143 is a rural secondary highway near cave city in northwestern barren county. the highway begins at us 31e (louisville road) southwest of cave city. ky 2131 follows old happy valley road southeast to ky 685 (stovall road) near that highway's junction with ky 90 (happy valley road) south of cave city. the kentucky transportation cabinet established ky 2143 through a february 1, 1994, official order. ky 2143 was originally happy valley road, then designated as ky 351, which had gone from the us 31w/us 68 intersection to downtown glasgow since the 1930s. in the 1950s, ky 90 was extended to include this particular road until it was rerouted to head into cave city directly in the late 1960s or early 1970s. this change gave the now ky 2143 the local road name old happy valley road.
list of kentucky supplemental roads and rural secondary highways (2000–2499)