Delaware Route 23

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DE Route 23

Length:

14.86 mi^[1] (23.91 km)

South end:

road end in Long Neck

Major
junctions:

DE 5/DE 24 in Long Neck

DE 1D in Five Points

North end:

US 9/DE 404 in Five Points

Routes in Delaware
< DE 20		DE 24 >

Delaware Route 23 is a state highway in Sussex County, Delaware. Its southern terminus is at Massey's Landing in Long Neck, near the confluence of Rehoboth Bay and Indian River Bay and its northern terminus is at the Five Points intersection, where it ends at U.S. Route 9 and Delaware Route 404.

[edit] Route description

Delaware Route 23 heads west from Massey's Landing on Long Neck Road. It passes through the housing developments that constitute the unincorporated community of Long Neck to Delaware Route 24. At this intersection, the name changes to Indian Mission Road, and DE 23 begins a concurrency with Delaware Route 5, which makes a left turn from DE 24 onto DE 23 northbound. The concurrency continues north to Fairmount, where DE 5 heads to the northwest and DE 23 continues north on Beaver Dam Road, passing through the community of Hollymount. It follows Beaver Dam Road north and then northeast through mixed farmland and housing developmets toward the Five Points intersection. Just before its termiuns, DE 23 meets Delaware Route 1D (Plantation Road), and the two routes head north on the very short Belltown Road to an intersection with U.S. Route 9 and Delaware Route 404 just west of their intersection with Delaware Route 1.