Kentucky Route 9
Kentucky Route 9 | ||||
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KY 9 highlighted in red | ||||
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| Maintained by KYTC | ||||
| Length | 116.285 mi (187.143 km) | |||
| Component highways | AA Highway from KY 1 / KY 7 to I-275 | |||
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| South end | KY 1 / KY 7 in Grayson | |||
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| North end | KY 8 in Newport | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Kentucky | |||
| Counties | Carter, Lewis, Mason, Bracken, Pendleton, Campbell | |||
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Kentucky Route 9 is a 116.285-mile-long (187.143 km) state highway maintained by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The highway extends from Grayson to Newport (a city in Kentucky across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, Ohio), roughly paralleling the Ohio River between Vanceburg and Newport.
Most of its route, from Grayson to the Interstate 275 (I-275) loop in Wilder, is part of the AA Highway, except for its northern 5.3 miles (8.5 km) which continues from the terminus of the AA Highway at I-275 into Newport. Kentucky Route 10 parallels KY 9 along most its route and has two concurrencies with it, one in Mason County and one in Lewis County. At Vanceburg, KY 9 turns south towards Grayson and Interstate 64, and the AA Highway splits into two spurs, one following KY 9 to its southern terminus and one following KY 10 to US Route 23 (US 23) in Greenup.
While KY 9 is not an expressway, it nonetheless serves as the shortest highway link between Cincinnati and Ashland, Kentucky. Most of the route is a rural two-lane highway. The only municipalities on the highway are Vanceburg and Maysville and suburban areas of Cincinnati at its western terminus.