US 127 enters the state at
Static on the state line separating
Pickett County, Tennessee, from
Clinton County, Kentucky, where it intersects
Tennessee State Route 111 (SR 111, formerly
SR 42) and
Kentucky Route 1076 (KY 1076). It passes through
Albany with a business route and bypass. After that it briefly
runs concurrently westward with
KY 90 for , then heads generally northward and crosses into
Russell County, where it goes onto Wolf Creek Dam, which impounds
Lake Cumberland, and passes
State Resort Park. It passes through
Jamestown with a business route and bypass, and then through
Russell Springs, where it has a junction with the
Cumberland Expressway. The highway then traverses
Casey, western
Lincoln, and
Boyle Counties, including the communities of
Liberty,
Hustonville, and
Danville, respectively. After Danville, where it has a bypass with US 150, it goes north to
Harrodsburg (
Mercer County),
Lawrenceburg (
Anderson County), both with bypasses and business routes, and then
Franklin County, the home of the state capital city of
Frankfort. After the capital, US 127 then passes through
Owen and
Gallatin counties, including the city of
Owenton. After its junction with
Interstate 71 (I-71), US 127 joins
US 42 east of
Warsaw. The highway then travels into
Boone County, where it has a junction with
I-75/I-71 before entering the city of
Florence, and then enters
Kenton County, and goes through the cities of
Erlanger and then
Covington before it (during its concurrency with
US 25) leaves the state by crossing the
Ohio River into downtown
Cincinnati,
Hamilton County, Ohio. ==History==