Walk Information

Date: Sunday, April 26, 2009
Register: 3pm
Walk: 4pm
Starting Place: UK Football Stadium (green lot)
Lexington, Kentucky
Walk Distance: 3K Loop
Goal: Each walker to raise $100 in pledges

Reach $100 Pledge Goal and receive Giant Steps T-shirt!

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Pizza and Prizes after the Walk.

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Directions to Walk 

From Bluegrass Parkway

  1. Take the Bluegrass Parkway until it ends
  2. Merge onto US-60 E via EXIT 72A toward Lexington, (US-60 will turn into Versailles Rd.). You will stay STRAIGHT for 7.6 miles
  3. Turn RIGHT onto MASON HEADLEY RD. (This is a small 3-way intersection, when you turn you will see Cardinal Hill Rehab Hospital on your left.) Follow this for 1.5 miles.
  4. Stay STRAIGHT Mason Headley Road becomes WALLER AVE. (This is a major intersection. The middle lane is the one that goes straight. You will see St. Joseph Hospital on your right.)
  5. Go 0.8 miles on WALLER AVE. ( you will go over train tracks and go through a stop light).
  6. Next, you will reach another major intersection with a stop light. WALLER then becomes COOPER DRIVE. You will see balloons and directional signs.
  7. Once on COOPER take a RIGHT on UNIVERSITY
  8. Then, LEFT at 1st Stadium entrance and proceed straight to green lot (left of stadium)
  9. The GREEN LOT will be on your left.

From Louisville taking Interstate 64 West

  1. Take the US-60 exit, EXIT 58, toward FRANKFORT/ VERSAILLES
  2. Merge onto US-60 E toward VERSAILLES and go for 8.4 miles
  3. Stay STRAIGHT to go onto US-60 BYP E for 1.7 miles
  4. You will then Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto US-60 E/ LEXINGTON RD. Continue to follow US-60 E for 9.5 miles. (There will be a stop light and stores in front of you. An Arby’s will be on the far right and you should see a Kroger and a Save-a-Lot around you.)
  5. (US-60 E becomes VERSAILLES RD/ US-60 BR E.)
  6. Turn RIGHT onto MASON HEADLEY RD. (This is
  7. a small 3-way intersection; there is a turning lane for you.When you turn you will see Cardinal Hill Rehab Hospital on your left.) Follow this for 1.5 miles.
  8. Stay STRAIGHT Mason Headley Road becomes WALLER AVE. (This is a major intersection. The middle lane is the one that goes straight. You will see St. Joseph Hospital on your right.)
  9. Go 0.8 miles on WALLER AVE. ( you will go over train tracks and go through a stop light).
  10. Next, you will reach another major intersection with a stop light. WALLER then becomes COOPER DRIVE. You will see balloons and directional signs.
  11. Once on COOPER take a RIGHT on UNIVERSITY
  12. Then, LEFT at 1st Stadium entrance and proceed straight to green lot (left of stadium)
  13. The GREEN LOT will be on your left.

From Northern KY taking Interstate 75 South

  1. Take the KY-922 exit, EXIT 115, toward MARTHA LAYNE COLLINS BLUEGRASS PARKWAY/AIRPORT LEXINGTON.
  2. Merge onto NEWTOWN PIKE/KY-922 S toward LEXINGTON AIRPORT/MARTHA LAYNE COLLINS BLUEGRASS PARKWAY. Go 3.3 miles.
  3. Turn LEFT onto W MAIN ST/US-25 BR/US-421 BR. Continue to follow US-25 BR S/US-421 BR S. for 0.7 miles. (STAY in the left lane, the road will split and you will be next to Rupp Arena.) You will be at a stoplight. GO STRAIGHT.
  4. Turn RIGHT onto S UPPER ST. (It will be your 2nd right after you go through the stoplight.)
  5. On your left you will see a giant hole.
  6. Stay STRAIGHT to go onto S LIMESTONE/US-27.
  7. You will go up a hill and be at a stoplight. Then a stoplight with Bella Rose Boutique on the left. There will be another stoplight with restaurants around you . Keep going and you will reach another stoplight where LIMESTONE becomes a two-way road.
  8. Go 0.8 miles past the UK Medical Center.
  9. At the 5th STOPLIGHT, take a LEFT onto Cooper Drive. You will see balloons and directional signs.
  10. Once on COOPER take a RIGHT on UNIVERSITY
  11. Then, LEFT at 1st Stadium entrance and proceed straight to green lot (left of stadium)
  12. the GREEN LOT will be on your left.

From South East KY from Interstate 75 North

  1. Take the KY-418 exit, EXIT 104, toward LEXINGTON/ATHENS
  2. Turn LEFT onto ATHENS BOONESBORO RD/KY-418 W. (ATHENS BOONESBORO RD/KY-418 W becomes RICHMOND RD).
  3. Take RICHMOND ROAD until it turns into MAIN STREET, Throughbred Park will be on your right. Once you go through the stoplight, it will be a one way street.
  4. Once through the light Follow Main Street through (5 Stoplights) Turn LEFT at the 6th Light on UPPER STREET after the giant hole (you will know when you see it)
  5. Stay STRAIGHT to go onto S LIMESTONE/US-27. (You
  6. You will go up a hill and be at a stoplight. Then a stoplight with Bella Rose Boutique on the left. There will be another stoplight with restaurants around you . Keep going and you will reach another stoplight where LIMESTONE becomes a two-way road.
  7. Go 0.8 miles past the UK Medical Center.
  8. At the 5th STOPLIGHT, take a LEFT onto Cooper Drive. You will see balloons and directional signs.
  9. Once on COOPER take a RIGHT on UNIVERSITY
  10. Then, LEFT at 1st Stadium entrance and proceed straight to green lot (left of stadium)
  11. The GREEN LOT will be on your left.
 
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