Kentucky Route 11
highway in Kentucky
Kentucky Route 11 (KY 11) is an American highway maintained by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet that runs from Maysville to Barbourville. The route from Maysville to Mount Sterling is being upgraded on a new alignment as part of a "macro-corridor" within the state of Kentucky.
Route description
The only part of KY 11 the Federal Highway Administration classifies as part of the National Highway System is on its concurrency with U.S. Route 25E (US 25E) in Barbourville. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet includes KY 11 as part of the state primary classification of the state primary road system along the US 25E concurrency in Barbourville, along the portion of its US 421 overlap between Manchester and Fall Rock, from KY 30 at Levi to the Bert T. Combs Mountain Parkway at Slade, and from KY 686 in Mount Sterling to its northern terminus in Maysville. The agency classifies the remainder of KY 11 as a state secondary highway.
KY 11's route from its southern terminus in Whitley County through Knox and Clay counties to Booneville in Owsley County, is through the dissected Appalachian Plateau, a forested dissected plateau that lies to the west of the major ridges of the Appalachian Mountains and is drained by the Cumberland River to the south and the Kentucky River to the north. From Booneville to the Lee–Wolfe county line north of Beattyville, the highway passes through the Kentucky/Ohio Carboniferous Plateau, a less-rugged region with a mix of forest, pasture, and cropland drained by the Kentucky River. KY 11 continues northwest through parts of Wolfe and Powell counties through the Northern Forested Plateau Escarpment, a rugged, forested area that runs along the Pottsville Escarpment that forms the western edge of the Appalachian Plateau. The Red River, a tributary of the Kentucky River, drains that region and the Knobs–Lower Scioto Dissected Plateau, a forested region of lower hills the route passes through in Powell County that forms a ring around the Outer Bluegrass, the outer ring of the Bluegrass region. The Outer Bluegrass, which KY 71 traverses from south of Mount Sterling to its northern terminus in Maysville through Montgomery, Bath, Fleming, and Mason counties, is a region of rolling hills that is predominantly farmland.
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