Delaware Route 92

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DE Route 92
Length:	12 mi (19 km)
Formed:	1978
West end:	DE 100 near Montchanin
Major junctions:	US 202 near Talleyville Ebright Road (highest point in DE) near Talleyville DE 261 near Booth Corner, Pennsylvania DE 3 near Brandywine Hundred I-95 in Claymont DE 491 in Claymont
East end:	US 13 in Claymont
Routes in Delaware < DE 82 DE 100 >

Delaware Route 92 is a two to four-lane, east-west road that straddles the Pennsylvania/Delaware State Line for most of its 12-mile length and allows a direct connection between U.S. Route 202 in Talleyville, Delaware with I-95 in Claymont, Delaware, the two major highways in Northern Delaware.

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Delaware Rt. 92 begins at the intersection with Delaware Rt. 100 and Adams Dam Road near Montchanin, Delaware, one of the more trendier suburbs of Northern Delaware. Traveling in a east-west direction, Delaware Rt. 92 between Delaware Rt. 100 and U.S. Rt. 202 is a semi-rural two-lane road, mainly due to that it passes through Brandywine Creek State Park. Passing the state park, Delaware Rt. 92 then makes a sharp right onto Beaver Dam Road and then becomes a four-lane roadway upon crossing U.S. Rt. 202.

Now signed as "Naamans Road," the four-lane roadway, which underwent a total rebuild between the 1970s and 2000, goes past the massive Brandywine Center, which was once the Brandywine Raceway harness racing track (which closed down in the late 1980s, but was eventually "replaced" with the building of the Harrah's Racetrack and Casino in Chester, Pennsylvania in 2006), but is now the location of a Target Greatland department and Lowes Home Center stores. Past the Brandywine Center, Delaware Rt. 92 then intersects with both Delaware Rts. 261 and 3, in which the latter terminates with Delaware Rt. 92 before finally intersecting with I-95 at its northern terminus with I-495.

It is at this intersection that Delaware Rt. 92 passes the Tri-State Mall, an early shopping mall that has an indoor mall at the front and a side strip-type mall on the side. While the strip mall has suffered from few vacancies within the past 10 years, the main mall itself, despite being anchored by a K-mart and Value City (formerly the Wilmington Dry Goods) store on each end, most of the indoor mall currently suffers from a lack of long-term tenants, a problem associated with older malls across America.

After passing I-95, Delaware Rt. 92 comes to an end with U.S. Route 13, which despite being a major north-south road in Delaware, takes on more of a secondary-type appearance at this location. The intersection of Delaware Rt. 92 with U.S. 13 allows an alternative to I-95 to either Philadelphia (via Pennsylvania Route 291 in Chester, Pennsylvania) or to I-495 and U.S. 202 through Wilmington.