Spaulding Turnpike

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Spaulding Turnpike
Length:	33.2 mi[1] (53.4 km)
Formed:	ca. 1956
South end:	I-95/US 1 Byp. in Portsmouth
Major junctions:	US 4 in Dover NH 125 in Rochester US 202 in Rochester NH 11 in Rochester
North end:	NH Route 16 in Milton

The Spaulding Turnpike is a toll road in New Hampshire, USA, running 33 miles from Interstate 95 in Portsmouth northwest to Milton. The turnpike roughly parallels the Maine border, and in the mid-1990s New Hampshire Route 16 was resigned onto the turnpike. There are two toll plazas on the turnpike, in Dover and Rochester.

The turnpike is part of the New Hampshire Turnpike System operated by the New Hampshire Department of Transportation Bureau of Turnpikes. Like most turnpikes, it is a 4-lane divided highway. Once it makes it to Rochester, however, it becomes a two-lane freeway, where it merges into one two-lane roadway, while still being limited access, and heads for Milton, where it ends. Route 16 continues as an all access highway. Exit 1 was previously an at-grade crossing with traffic lights, but has since been converted into a diamond interchange.

[edit] Exit list

Mile		Municipality	#			Destinations	Notes
			Old
		Portsmouth				Interstate 95 north; U.S. Route 1 Bypass - Portsmouth; Portland, ME	southbound exit and northbound entrance
						Interstate 95 south - Hampton; Boston, MA	southbound exit and northbound entrance
						Brady Drive	northbound exit and entrance (not accessible from I-95 North exit ramp)
					1	Gosling Road - Pease International Tradeport
		Newington
					2	Fox Run Road	northbound exit and entrance
					3	Portsmouth; Newington; Business District	southbound exit and northbound entrance
					4	River Road; Nimble Hill Road - Newington
		Dover			5	Hilton Park	northbound exit and entrance
					6N	Dover Point Road - South Dover	northbound exit only
			2[2]	3	6W	U.S. Route 4 west to U.S. Route 202 - Dover Point; Durham; Concord	Southbound exit 6 US 4 joins southbound and splits northbound
						Dover barrier toll
				4	7	NH Route 108 - Dover; Durham; UNH
				5	8E	NH Route 9 - Silver Street; Downtown Dover
					8W	NH Route 9; NH Route 155 - Dover, Madbury
			5[2]	6	9	NH Route 9; NH Route 108 - Dover; Somersworth
		Rochester				Rochester barrier toll
					11	Old Dover Road - Rochester	northbound exit only
				7[3]	12	NH Route 125 - Rochester; Gonic
				8[3]	13	U.S. Route 202 west - Rochester; Concord	US 202 joins northbound and leaves southbound
				9[3]	14	Ten Rod Road - Rochester	no northbound entrance
				10[3]	15	NH Route 11 west - Farmington; Alton	Route 11 joins northbound and leaves southbound
					16	TO U.S. Route 202 east; NH Route 11 east to NH Route 125 - East Rochester; Rochester; Sanford, ME	US 202 and Route 11 join southbound and leave northbound
		Milton			17	TO NH Route 75 to NH Route 125 - Milton; Farmington
					18	NH Route 125 south - Union; Milton Mills

[edit] See also

• New Hampshire Highway System

[edit] References

1. ^ NHDOT Bureau of Turnpikes - Spaulding Turnpike
2. ^ ^{a b} USGS, 1956 Dover quadrangle
3. ^ ^{a b c d} USGS, 1958 Berwick quadrangle

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