The
Wendell H. Ford Western Kentucky Parkway is a
controlled-access highway running from
Elizabethtown, Kentucky to near
Eddyville, Kentucky. It intersects with
Interstate 65 at its eastern terminus, and
Interstate 24 at its western terminus. It is one of nine highways that are part of the
Kentucky parkway system. The road was renamed for
Wendell H. Ford, a former Kentucky
governor and
United States Senator, in 1998. Previously, it was simply the Western Kentucky Parkway, and often called the "WK Parkway" because of the abbreviation once used on its signs. The Western Kentucky Parkway carries the unsigned designation of
Kentucky Route 9001 (
WK 9001) for its entire length. The portion from I-24 to the Pennyrile Parkway also carries the signed designation of
Interstate 69. The section signed as I-69, the parkway is signed as former.