State Route 119 (SR 119) is a south-to-north
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 ...
completely in
Henry County. The road begins at the
Paris Landing State Park, at an
intersection
In mathematics, the intersection of two or more objects is another object consisting of everything that is contained in all of the objects simultaneously. For example, in Euclidean geometry, when two lines in a plane are not parallel, their i ...
with
US 79/
SR 76. It ends at the
Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia to ...
state line, northeast of
Buchanan. There, the roadway continues as
Kentucky Route 121
Kentucky Route 121 (KY 121) is a state highway in Kentucky. It runs from State Route 119 (SR 119) at the Kentucky–Tennessee state line southeast of New Concord to U.S. Route 51 (US 51) and US 62 in Wickliffe vi ...
. The current length is .
Route description
SR 119 begins on the banks of
Kentucky Lake
Kentucky Lake is a major navigable reservoir along the Tennessee River in Kentucky and Tennessee. It was created in 1944 by the Tennessee Valley Authority's impounding of the Tennessee River via Kentucky Dam for flood control and hydroelectric p ...
/
Tennessee River
The Tennessee River is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. It is approximately long and is located in the southeastern United States in the Tennessee Valley. The river was once popularly known as the Cherokee River, among other names, ...
at an intersection with
US 79
U.S. Route 79 (US 79) is a United States highway in the Southern United States. The route is officially considered and labeled as a north-south highway, but its path is actually more of a diagonal northeast-southwest highway. The highway's nort ...
/
SR 76 at
Paris Landing State Park. It travels northward, closely paralleling the Kentucky Lake/Tennessee River as it passes by several lake related businesses before passing through wooded areas until it becomes
KY 121 at the TN/
KY state line.
Major intersections
See also
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List of state routes in Tennessee
The Tennessee state routes do not follow a systematic numbering system unlike the U.S. Highway System and some other states' highway systems. The routes are separated into primary and secondary routes though. Many of the routes are hidden in tha ...
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References
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Transportation in Henry County, Tennessee