Kentucky Route 91 (KY 91) is a

state highway A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a ...

that traverses three counties in western

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. It begins in

Hopkinsville, Kentucky Hopkinsville is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Christian County, Kentucky, United States. The population at the 2010 census was 31,577. History Early years The area of present-day Hopkinsville was initially claimed in 1796 b ...

and ends at the

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, the

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state line in northern Crittenden County.

Route description

Hopkinsville to Princeton

It begins at a junction with U.S. Route 68 and

Kentucky Route 80 Kentucky Route 80 (KY 80) is a state highway in the southern part of the U.S. state of Kentucky. The route originates on the state's western border at Columbus in Hickman County and stretches across the southern portion of the state, ...

, the

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seat. It crosses KY-1682, the Hopkinsville By-Pass before leaving town. It goes on a northwesterly path, and its junction with Kentucky Route 398 is KY 91's access point to

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. KY 91 enters Caldwell County, and then it would meet Kentucky Routes 139 and

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, along with

US 62 U.S. Route 62 or U.S. Highway 62 (US 62) runs from the Mexican border at El Paso, Texas, to Niagara Falls, New York, near the Canadian border. It is the only east-west United States Numbered Highway that connects Mexico and Canada ...

in downtown

Princeton Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine ...

. It then traverses

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on the northwest outskirts of Princeton.DeLorme. ''Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer''. (2010) (Map, Fourth Edition) pp. 60-61

Princeton to Cave-in-Rock

KY 91 meets

Kentucky Route 70 Kentucky Route 70 (KY 70) is a long east-east state highway that originates at a junction with U.S. Route 60 (US 60) in Smithland in Livingston County, just east of the Ohio River. The route continues through the counties of Critten ...

and then

U.S. Route 641 U.S. Route 641 (US 641) is a U.S. Route in Tennessee and Kentucky. It runs for from US 64 south of Clifton, Tennessee to an intersection with US 60 in Marion, Kentucky. While it is considered a spur route of U.S. Route 41, the ...

at Fredonia, a community northwest of Princeton. KY 70, KY 91, and US 641 then run concurrently from there into Crittenden County. KY 70 departs from US 641/KY 91 at a point north of the Crittenden-Caldwell County line, while KY 91 remains with US 641 until the U.S. Route's northern terminus at the U.S. Route 60 junction at

. For a few blocks, KY 91 runs concurrently with US 60, and then KY 91 goes further north to reach its northern terminus at the

Cave-In-Rock Ferry The Cave-In-Rock Ferry is one of four passenger ferry services that cross the Ohio River into the U.S. state of Kentucky. It connects Illinois Route 1 in Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois to Kentucky Route 91, 10.6 miles north of Marion, K ...

on the

, which also marks the

state line. It becomes Illinois State Highway 1 upon entry into

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.DeLorme. ''Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer.'' (2010) (Map, Fourth Edition) page 43

Major intersections

References

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