New Hampshire Route 27

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NH Route 27

Length:

37.59 mi^[1] (60.50 km)

West end:

US 3/NH 28 in Hooksett

Major
junctions:

NH 101 near Exeter

NH 101 in Hampton

East end:

NH 1A in Hampton Beach

New Hampshire Routes
< NH 26	NH 28 >
< NH 101B		NH 101D >

New Hampshire Route 27 (abbreviated NH 27) is a 37.59 mile long east–west highway in southeastern New Hampshire. The western terminus of NH 27 is in Hooksett at U.S. Route 3 and New Hampshire Route 28 north of Manchester. The eastern terminus is in Hampton Beach at New Hampshire Route 1A, which runs along the New Hampshire coastline adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean.

[edit] History

Most of NH 27 between Hooksett and Raymond was part of New Hampshire Route 101 until the 1980s, when NH 101 was moved onto a new four-lane expressway to the south, allowing New Hampshire Route 101B to briefly take over the former routing of NH 101. This segment of NH 101B was eventually renumbered NH 27. The section between New Hampshire Route 43 in Candia and the eastern terminus of the NH 27/New Hampshire Route 107 concurrency in Raymond is now part of New Hampshire Route 101 Business, although this segment is rarely signed as such as of 2006.

In the late 1990s, the modern NH 101 expressway between exit 5 in Raymond and exit 9 near Exeter was completed, allowing NH 101 to shift from the current alignment of NH 27 between Raymond and Exeter to the freeway. NH 27 was then extended eastward from Raymond along the former routing of NH 101 to New Hampshire Route 108 in Exeter. Additionally, the routing of New Hampshire Route 101C, which ran from NH 108 east along what is now NH 27 to NH 1A in Hampton Beach, was usurped by NH 27, extending NH 27 to its current location.

The NH 101C designation was changed in 1990 due to confusion between NH 101C, New Hampshire Route 101D in Exeter and North Hampton, and New Hampshire Route 101E in Hampton. NH 101D is now the easternmost part of New Hampshire Route 111 while NH 101E remains but is poorly signed.^[2]