Everett Turnpike
Central New Hampshire Turnpike | |
Route information | |
Maintained by NHDOT Bureau of Turnpikes | |
Length | 39.867 mi[1] (64.160 km) |
Existed | c. 1955–present |
Component highways |
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Major junctions | |
South end |
I-93 in Hooksett |
Location | |
Country | United States |
State | New Hampshire |
Counties | Hillsborough, Merrimack |
Highway system | |
The Frederick E. Everett Turnpike, also called the Central New Hampshire Turnpike, is a controlled-access toll road in the U.S. state of New Hampshire, running 44 miles (71 km) from the Massachusetts border at Nashua north to Concord. The Everett Turnpike is named for Frederick Elwin Everett, the first commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Transportation.[2]
The turnpike is part of the
Built prior to the
Route description
Much of the turnpike's length has been overlapped by other numbered routes. Portions of the road are shared with
There are two mainline toll plazas on the turnpike, in Bedford and Hooksett, that each charge $1.00 for cash and out of state E-ZPass users. The Bedford mainline toll plaza, located between Exit 13 and I-293, replaced the Merrimack toll plaza (formerly located at what is now Exit 11) in the early 1990s. Ramp tolls also exist at I-93 Exit 11 at the mainline toll plaza in Hooksett. E-ZPass readers were installed in all toll locations in 2005, and the state currently offers a 30% discount for using an NHDOT issued E-ZPass. Major rest areas combined with state-run liquor stores are located on either side of the highway in Hooksett just north of the mainline toll plaza on I-93. On July 18, 2014, the Exit 12 ramp tolls in Merrimack were removed, and on January 1, 2020, the Merrimack Exit 11 ramp tolls were removed.[3] Toll collection at Exit 10 in Merrimack ended on December 31, 2021.[4]
The proposed (but mostly unbuilt)
Signage
Signs for the Everett Turnpike consist of a rectangle with a rounded bottom, a green circle, and green text that says "Everett Turnpike" above the circle, with the word "Turnpike" curved along the top edge of the circle; this signage is similar in design to that for other New Hampshire turnpikes. For the US 3 segment in Nashua, there is an Everett Turnpike sign in Massachusetts just south of the border northbound alongside the US 3 shield on an overhead sign, and several others along overhead signs through Nashua. Mile markers also contain the Everett Turnpike shield in Nashua, and combined US 3 and Everett Turnpike shields are posted along the side of the road on stand-alone posts, though most on-ramp signage only indicates US 3.
Signs for the turnpike are most prominent on the Merrimack-Bedford segment, which lacks any concurrent US or Interstate route. Along this section, the Everett Turnpike shield appears on on-ramp direction signs, along the side of the highway on signposts, and on overhead reassurance signs.
Along the I-293 segment in Manchester, signage is similar to the Nashua US 3 section, though mile markers have the I-293 shield instead of the Everett Turnpike shield.
Though the turnpike continues north to Concord, it is not signed north of the I-293 merge in Hooksett. On I-93 North, the exit for I-293 is signed as I-293/Everett Turnpike South, while the mainline is signed as "I-93 North (a toll road)". On I-293 North, Everett Turnpike signs stop at the merge, with I-93 North signed by itself. There is no indication of the northern terminus on I-93 in either direction. Southbound, the first emergence of turnpike signage is after the exit onto I-293. The sole mention of the Everett Turnpike north of the I-293 merge is on New Hampshire Route 3A at the intersection with Hackett Hill Road leading to exit 11 in Hooksett. A sign with the Turnpike and I-93 shields notes the highway as leading north to Concord and south to Manchester. North of Exit 11, there are no turnpike signs on intersecting highways, including I-89.
There are turnpike mile markers only from the Massachusetts state line to the interchange with I-293 and Route 101. North of there, the mile markers and sequential exit numbers relate to the concurrent Interstate highways.
History
The highway first opened in 1955, from the
Little additional work was done on the turnpike for the next 12 years. In 1978, the turnpike was widened from four lanes to six between the Hooksett tolls and I-89 in
In the mid 2000s, I-293 exit 5 was rebuilt, adding additional ramps and widening the northbound side to three lanes from just south of exit 5 to exit 7 (NH 3A). Finally, in 2011, Raymond Wieczorek Drive (exit 13), a connector from the Everett Turnpike from just south of the I-293 merge to Manchester–Boston Regional Airport, was built.[6]
Exit list
County | Location | mi[1] | km | Old exit [7][8][5][9][10] | New exit | Destinations | Notes |
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Northwest Expressway ) | Continuation into Massachusetts | ||||||
0.50 | 0.80 | 1 | Spit Brook Road – South Nashua | ||||
1.49 | 2.40 | 2 | To NH 3A / Daniel Webster Highway – Hudson | Access via Circumferential Highway; signed as exit 1A from northbound collector–distributor lane | |||
2.59 | 4.17 | 1 | 3 | Daniel Webster Highway – South Nashua | Southbound left exit and northbound entrance only; originally exit 1 | ||
3.18 | 5.12 | 4 | East Dunstable Road | ||||
4.69 | 7.55 | 2 | 5 | Signed as exits 5E (east) and 5W (west); originally exit 2 | |||
5.13 | 8.26 | 5E-A | 5A | Simon Street | Northbound exit only, formerly signed as Exit 5E-A | ||
6.22 | 10.01 | 6 | NH 130 (Broad Street) – Hollis | ||||
6.74 | 10.85 | 7 | Northern end of US 3 concurrency; signed as exits 7E (east) and 7W (west) | ||||
7.66 | 12.33 | 7W | 8 | To NH 101A west – Amherst, Milford | Locally known as Somerset Parkway | ||
US 3 / Industrial Drive | Formerly tolled northbound exit and southbound entrance | ||||||
11.10 | 17.86 | 8 | 11 | To US 3 – Merrimack | Formerly tolled northbound exit and southbound entrance | ||
14.94 | 24.04 | 12 | To US 3 / Bedford Road | Northbound exit and southbound entrance; formerly tolled | |||
Litchfield | |||||||
Bedford Toll Plaza | |||||||
19.39 | 31.21 | 10 | — | , Milford | Southern end of I-293 concurrency; exit numbers follow I-293; originally exit 5 | ||
NH 114A – Manchester | Southern end of NH 3A concurrency | ||||||
21.96 | 35.34 | 5 | Granite Street – West Manchester | ||||
23.27 | 37.45 | 7 | 6 | Amoskeag Street / Goffstown Road | Originally exit 7 | ||
24.25 | 39.03 | 7 | NH 3A north – Hooksett | Northbound exit and southbound entrance; northern end of NH 3A concurrency | |||
I-293 ends | Northern end of I-293 concurrency, southern end of I-93 concurrency; exit numbers follow I-93 | ||||||
Hooksett Toll Plaza | |||||||
29.52 | 47.51 | 8 | 11 | To NH 3A – Hooksett | |||
White River Junction, VT | Originally exit 9 | ||||||
Concord | 36.91 | 59.40 | 12 | NH 3A (S. Main Street) – Bow Junction | Signed as exits 12N (north) and 12S (south) | ||
38.08 | 61.28 | 13 | US 3 (Manchester Street) – Downtown | ||||
39.20 | 63.09 | 14 | NH 9 (Loudon Road) – State Offices | ||||
I-93 north – Plymouth | Continuation north | ||||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also
References
- ^ GIS data- NH Public Roads
- ^ Brown, Janice A. (August 23, 2006). "New Hampshire's Turnpike History". Cow Hampshire. BlogHarbor. Retrieved January 15, 2009.
- ^ Cronin, Mike (December 31, 2019). "NH won't charge toll at Exit 11 of Everett Turnpike starting Wednesday". WMUR. Retrieved January 21, 2020.
- ^ King, Jason (December 30, 2021). "Tolls to be removed on Everett Turnpike at Exit 10". WMUR. Retrieved December 31, 2021.
- ^ a b New Hampshire Statutes Title XX Chapter 237
- ^ a b c "F.E. Everett Turnpike: Historical overview". Boston Roads. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
- ^ 1968 Indiana Toll Road map (has exits 3-10 from Nashua to Milford, then present exits 11-13 from Hooksett to Concord)
- ^ 1985 USGS topo
- ^ 1985 USGS topo
- ^ 1957 USGS Suncook quadrangle
External links
- Everett Turnpike on Flickr
- F.E. Everett Turnpike: Historic Overview on bostonroads.com