Kentucky Route 1974, also known as Tates Creek Road, Euclid Avenue, and Avenue of Champions, stretches from the University of Kentucky

University of Kentucky

The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky...

 campus near its northern terminus and proceeds southeast towards Spears. It has become a popular commuting route from points south, especially with recent housing development south of Man o' War Boulevard

Man o' War Boulevard

Man o' War Boulevard, named after the racehorse Man o' War, is a 17-mile urban arterial, circling Lexington, Kentucky to its south. Its western terminus is at US 60 Versailles Road at Keeneland Race Course's main entrance, from which the highway heads southeast, intersecting with US 68 , US 27 ,...

 that stretches to Kentucky Route 1980.

KY 1974 was widened from two to four lanes south of Man o' War Boulevard to KY 1980 in the late 1990s. It becomes a rural two-lane road with very light traffic to its southern terminus with KY 169

Kentucky Route 169

Kentucky Route 169 is a north-south state highway in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Route 169 runs from U.S. Route 25 in Richmond north to Kentucky Route 33 south of Versailles. The highway crosses the Kentucky River via the Valley View Ferry....

, which leads to the Valley View Ferry

Valley View Ferry

The Valley View Ferry provides passage over the Kentucky River in rural central Kentucky. Located on Kentucky Route 169, it helps connect auto traffic between the county seats of Richmond in Madison County and Nicholasville in Jessamine County. The ferry was founded in 1780, predating Kentucky's...

.