U.S. Route 31E
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| U.S. Route 31E |
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| South end: |     U.S. Routes 31/31W/41/431 in Nashville, TN |
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| North end: |  U.S. Routes 31/31W/60 in Louisville, KY |
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U.S. Highway 31E is the easternmost of two parallel routes for U.S. Highway 31 from Nashville, Tennessee to Louisville, Kentucky. (At one time, it split with U.S. Highway 31W at Sellersburg, Indiana, north of Louisville.)
The highway passes through Hendersonville and Gallatin, Tennessee; and Scottsville, Glasgow, Hodgenville, Bardstown, New Haven and Mount Washington, Kentucky. It passes the entrance to Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site near Hodgenville, through Barren River Lake State Resort Park between Scottsville and Glasgow, and near My Old Kentucky Home in Bardstown.
The highway intersects with the Louie B. Nunn Cumberland Parkway at Glasgow, with the Martha Layne Collins Blue Grass Parkway near Bardstown, Interstate 265 (Gene Snyder Freeway) in the outer suburbs of Louisville, and Interstate 264 (Watterson Expressway) in Louisville proper. It crosses U.S. Highway 68 at Glasgow and U.S. Highway 62 at Bardstown.
From Bardstown to Louisville, the highway overlaps with U.S. Highway 150. From Scottsville to a point about five miles south of Westmoreland, Tennessee, the highway overlaps with U.S. Highway 231.
The highway follows the approximate route of the earlier Jackson Highway.
