Directions

Please Note: Although our address is 3043 Beal Road, Hardin, KY, DO NOT go to Hardin, KY to find the conference center. Jonathan Creek is located approximately 4 miles west of Aurora, KY. We are approximately 120 miles northwest of Nashville, 200 miles southwest of Louisville, and 200 miles southeast of St. Louis. You can enter these coordinates (36.790252,-88.208309) into Google Maps to direct you to Jonathan Creek.

Download a printable map of Jonathan Creek coming from the North (PDF)

Download a printable map to Jonathan Creek coming from the South (PDF)

From Louisville

  1. Take Interstate 65 South to Elizabethtown
  2. Get on Western Kentucky Parkway at Elizabethtown
  3. Take Western Kentucky Parkway to Interstate 24 (Paducah exit)
  4. Exit from Interstate 24 onto Purchase Parkway (Exit 25A, Fulton exit)
  5. Take Purchase Parkway to Exit 47 Draffenville/Aurora.
  6. Turn left off Exit 47 and travel approximately 15 miles until you cross the Jonathan Creek Bridge.
  7. After crossing the bridge, you will come to the top of the hill and see the Dinner Bell Restaurant on the right.
  8. Turn right onto Beal Road, which is in front of the Dinner Bell Restaurant. (If you pass the Dinner Bell and come to Aurora, you have gone too far.)
  9. Travel 1.5 miles on Beal Road until you come to a white water tower.
  10. Turn right about 100 ft beyond the water tower and enter the grounds to Jonathan Creek Camp and Conference Center.

From Cincinnati

  1. Take Interstate 75 to Lexington, KY.
  2. Get on Bluegrass Parkway and take to Elizabethtown, KY.
  3. Get on Western Kentucky Parkway at Elizabethtown.
  4. Take Western Kentucky Parkway to Interstate 24 (Paducah exit)
  5. Exit from Interstate 24 onto Purchase Parkway (Exit 25A, Fulton exit)
  6. Take Purchase Parkway to Exit 47 Draffenville/Aurora.
  7. Turn left off Exit 47 and travel approximately 15 miles until you cross the Jonathan Creek Bridge.
  8. After crossing the bridge, you will come to the top of the hill and see the Dinner Bell Restaurant on the right.
  9. Turn right onto Beal Road, which is in front of the Dinner Bell Restaurant. (If you pass the Dinner Bell and come to Aurora, you have gone too far.)
  10. Travel 1.5 miles on Beal Road until you come to a white water tower.
  11. Turn right about 100 ft beyond the water tower and enter the grounds to Jonathan Creek Camp and Conference Center.

From Southern Illinois

  1. Follow Interstate 24 to the Purchase Parkway.
  2. Exit from Interstate 24 onto Purchase Parkway (Exit 25A, Fulton exit)
  3. Take Purchase Parkway to Exit 47 Draffenville/Aurora.
  4. Turn left off Exit 47 and travel approximately 15 miles until you cross the Jonathan Creek Bridge.
  5. After crossing the bridge, you will come to the top of the hill and see the Dinner Bell Restaurant on the right.
  6. Turn right onto Beal Road, which is in front of the Dinner Bell Restaurant. (If you pass the Dinner Bell and come to Aurora, you have gone too far.)
  7. Travel 1.5 miles on Beal Road until you come to a white water tower.
  8. Turn right about 100 ft beyond the water tower and enter the grounds to Jonathan Creek Camp and Conference Center.

From Memphis

  1. Take Highway 51 to Purchase Parkway
  2. Take Purchase Parkway to Exit 47 Draffenville/Aurora.
  3. Turn right onto Hwy 68 and travel approximately 15 miles until you cross the Jonathan Creek Bridge.
  4. After crossing the bridge, you will come to the top of the hill and see the Dinner Bell Restaurant on the right.
  5. Turn right onto Beal Road, which is in front of the Dinner Bell Restaurant. (If you pass the Dinner Bell and come to Aurora, you have gone too far.)
  6. Travel 1.5 miles on Beal Road until you come to a white water tower.
  7. Turn right about 100 ft beyond the water tower and enter the grounds to Jonathan Creek Camp and Conference Center.

From Nashville

**Due to the outage of the bridge leading to Jonathan Creek, you will find alternative directions to our Jonathan Creek property.

  1. Take Interstate 24 West
  2. Take exit 25A for Purchase Pkwy S toward Fulton
  3. Merge onto Julian M. Carroll Purchase Pkwy
  4. In approximately 4 miles, take Exit 47 to US-68 toward Draffenville/Aurora
  5. Turn Left onto US-68E –
  6. In approximately 13 miles you will go over the Jonathan Creek Bridge.
  7. After crossings the Jonathan Creek Bridge, continue for one more mile. The Dinner Bell Restaurant will be on the right.
  8. Turn Right onto Beal Road.
  9. Travel approx 1 mile on Beal Road until you come to a white water tower.

10.  Turn right about 100 ft beyond the water tower and enter the grounds to Jonathan Creek Camp and                      Conference Center.

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