Interstate 69 (
I-69) is an
Interstate Highway in the
United States consisting of seven disjointed parts with an original continuous segment from
Indianapolis, Indiana, northeast to the
Canadian border in
Port Huron, Michigan, at . The remaining separated parts are variously completed and posted or unposted parts of a long-distance extension southwest to the
Mexican border in
Texas. Of this extension—nicknamed the
NAFTA Superhighway because it would help trade with
Canada and
Mexico spurred by the
North American Free Trade Agreement—five pieces near
Corpus Christi,
Houston, northwestern
Mississippi,
Memphis, and
Evansville have been newly built or upgraded and signposted as I-69. A sixth segment of I-69 through Kentucky utilizing that state's existing parkway system and a section of
I-24, was established by federal legislation in 2008 but only a portion is signposted. A section of the previously existing
Western Kentucky Parkway from
Eddyville to
Nortonville was approved and signposted in late 2011, with the Pennyrile Parkway between Nortonville and Henderson being signed as I-69 in 2015. This brings the total length to about .