Kentucky Route 76

Kentucky Route 76
Kentucky Route 76
	KY 76 highlighted in red
Route information
	Maintained by KYTC
Length	36.714 mi (59.085 km)
Major junctions
South end	Boat ramp on Lake Cumberland
	KY 80 near Russell Springs; US 127 near Russell Springs
North end	KY 70 near Elk Horn
Location
Country	United States
State	Kentucky
Counties	Russell, Taylor, Adair
Highway system
	Kentucky State Highway System; Interstate; US; State; Parkways;

Kentucky Route 76 (KY 76) is a 36.714-mile-long (59.085 km) state highway in Kentucky that runs from a boat ramp on Lake Cumberland west of Jabez to KY 70 northeast of Elk Horn via Eli, Neatsville, Knifley, and Yuma.^[2]

Route description

After it begins on the shore of Lake Cumberland, KY 76 goes into a northwesterly path towards Salem. It intersects KY 910 and goes over an overpass that carries the highway over the Louie B. Nunn Cumberland Parkway before intersecting KY 80. It runs concurrently with KY 80 for about 0.54 miles (0.87 km), KY 76 goes on to meet U.S. Route 127, and it runs concurrently with that route in a southerly path for 0.985 miles (1.585 km) before turning right. KY 76 enters Adair County, where it has a junction with Kentucky Routes 206 and 551 in the communities of Neatsville and Knifley, respectively. It enters Taylor County, and meets its northern terminus at its junction with KY 70 at Elk Horn, just east of Campbellsville.^[2]

History

KY 76 was originally an east–west highway going from KY 70 at Elk Horn to KY 206 at Neatsville, but followed a path into Casey County where it met US 127 at Dunnville. ^[3] KY 76 has long been rerouted to its current length and path at some point around 1962–63.^[4]

Major intersections

County	Location	mi^[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Taylor	Lake Cumberland	0.000	0.000	Boat ramp	Southern terminus
		1.227	1.975	KY 1383 south	Northern terminus of KY 1383
		2.652	4.268	KY 1611 south	Northern terminus of KY 1611
		4.625	7.443	KY 3278 north (Rex Roat-Butcher Road) / Old Eli Road	Southern terminus of KY 3278
		5.830	9.382	KY 910
		7.516	12.096	KY 80 east	South end of KY 80 overlap
		7.985	12.851	KY 80 west	North end of KY 80 overlap
		11.498	18.504	US 127 north	South end of US 127 overlap
		12.483	20.089	US 127 south / Jericho Road	North end of US 127 overlap
Adair		18.575	29.894	KY 206 west (Liberty Road)	South end of KY 206 overlap
		19.794	31.855	KY 2289 north / Rogers Lane	Southern terminus of KY 2289
		20.870	33.587	KY 2289 south (Eunice-Dunnville Road) / Little Cake Road	Northern terminus of KY 2289
	Neatsville	21.467	34.548	KY 206 east (Liberty Road)	North end of KY 206 overlap
		25.160	40.491	KY 1104 north (Caldwell Ridge Road)	Southern terminus of KY 1104
	Knifley	27.323	43.972	KY 551 (Knifley Road)
Taylor		35.024	56.366	KY 1752 east (Speck Ridge Road)	Western terminus of KY 1752
Taylor		36.714	59.085	KY 70 (Elkhorn Road)	Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus