Sunfish Roundhill Road Now Open After Nearly Four Year Shutdown to Through Traffic

Sunfish Roundhill Road reopened to all traffic on May 29, 2026.

Darren Doyle, story:
After nearly four years of being closed due to a collapse, Sunfish Roundhill Road has reopened, with the major portion of the construction becoming complete today.

The banks surrounding the road began to erode at some point, which compromised the road base. A portion of the road  was closed to through traffic in July of 2022. The Edmonson County Road Department was not able to to repair the road due to the size and scope of work.

At that time, "road closed" signs were put in place but it was still possible for them to be moved and driven around. In April of 2024, a Muhlenberg County man died after driving his car into the breach, which was around a 20 foot drop off to the creek below. It was unknown how the signs were moved to allow his vehicle through.

The Edmonson County Fiscal Court secured funding through loans to repair the road in March of 2025, which was a complicated process.

The road in April, 2024.

Sunfish Roundhill Road May 29, 2026.

July 2022.

According to Edmonson County Judge/Executive Scott Lindsey, Mr. Ryan Hembree, the coordinator for Kentucky Emergency Management Federal Program, visited the site on September 19, 2023 with a member of the regional FEMA team out of Atlanta, GA to evaluate the project, requested by Lindsey. Soon after, a letter of funding allocation was received by Lindsey's office, but it required the county to cover the costs up front, to the tune of nearly $900K. That amount would have nearly depleted all the county's daily operating cost, which wasn't feasible.

Soon after, an option was discovered that would grant the county government a line of credit through the Kentucky Association of Counties, or KACo, and during a March 2024 Edmonson County Fiscal Court meeting, magistrates voted to approve to apply for the credit line with KACo Leasing Trust.

After a bidding process, Scotty's Contracting was awarded the bid in the summer of 2025 with the hopes the road would be rebuilt by the end of the year, but that deadline was eventually moved back due to a number of reasons.

Today, other than some fencing in the area that will soon be completed, which does not affect the safety or efficiency of the road, the project is now complete with the road being fully open to all traffic.

"We want to thank Scotty’s for all of their hard work in getting this road rebuilt and reopened before the contracted deadline," Lindsey said.
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