Thruston Park

Thruston Park is a park in Jefferson, Kentucky. Thruston Park is situated nearby to the hamlet Clifton, as well as near Port Fulton.

Places of Interest

Highlights include David Armstrong Extreme Park and Beargrass Creek.

David Armstrong Extreme Park

Park

The David Armstrong Extreme Park, formerly called the Louisville Extreme Park, is a 40,000 square foot public skatepark located near downtown Louisville, Kentucky, United States, in the Butchertown neighborhood.

Beargrass Creek

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.

Beargrass Creek is the name given to several forks of a creek in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Its watershed is one of the largest in the county, though it is fairly small.

Abraham Lincoln Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Censusdata, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Abraham Lincoln Bridge is a six-lane, single-deck cable-stayed bridge carrying northbound Interstate 65 across the Ohio River, connecting Louisville, Kentucky, and Jeffersonville, Indiana.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Clifton and Jeffersonville.

Clifton

Hamlet

Photo: Angry Aspie, CC BY 3.0.

Clifton is a neighborhood east of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, US. Clifton was named because of its hilly location on the Ohio River valley escarpment. Clifton is bounded by I-64, N Ewing Ave, Brownsboro Road, and Mellwood Ave.

Jeffersonville

Photo: Bedford, Public domain.

Jeffersonville, often called "Jeff" by locals, is the county seat of Clark County in Southern Indiana, on the opposite side of the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky and connected to Louisville by the Kennedy, Lincoln, and Lewis and Clark Bridges.

Port Fulton

Hamlet

Photo: Bedford, Public domain.

Port Fulton was a town located two miles up the river from Louisville, within present-day Jeffersonville, Indiana. At its height it stretched from the Ohio River to modern-day 10th Street, and from Crestview to Jefferson/Main Streets.

Thruston Park

Type: Park
Location: Jefferson, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.26313° or 38° 15′ 47″ north

Longitude

-85.7283° or 85° 43′ 42″ west

Elevation

440 feet (134 metres)

Open location code

86CP777C+7M

GeoNames ID

4310905

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