Spaulding Turnpike
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| Spaulding Turnpike maintained by New Hampshire DOT |
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| Length: | 33.2 mi[1] (53.4 km) |
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| 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 from Portsmouth to Rochester. From exit 12 at NH Route 125 south of Rochester north to the highway's terminus in Milton it is a two-lane freeway. Route 16 continues as an all-access highway north of Milton.
Exit 1, on the border between Portsmouth and Newington, was previously an at-grade crossing with traffic lights, most likely due to the proximity of the entrance to Pease Air Force Base. After the base's closure it has been converted into a diamond interchange. [1]
[edit] Exit list
| County | Town | Mile | # | Destinations | Notes | ||
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| Rockingham | Portsmouth | overlapped with |
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| 0.00 | Interstate 95 north; U.S. Route 1 Bypass - Portsmouth; Portland, ME |
Traffic circle at southern end of highway. | |||||
| 0.77 | Interstate 95 south - Hampton; Boston, MA |
southbound exit and northbound entrance | |||||
| 0.92 | Brady Drive | northbound exit and entrance (not accessible from I-95 North exit ramp) | |||||
| 1.59 | 1 | Gosling Road - Pease International Tradeport | |||||
| Newington | |||||||
| 2.38 | 2 | Fox Run Road | northbound exit and entrance | ||||
| 2.86 | 3 | Portsmouth; Newington; Business District | southbound exit and northbound entrance | ||||
| 3.45 | 4 | River Road; Nimble Hill Road - Newington | |||||
| Strafford | Dover | 4.39 | 5 | Hilton Park | northbound exit and entrance | ||
| 4.76 | 6N | Dover Point Road - South Dover | northbound exit only | ||||
| 5.01 | 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 |
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| Dover Toll Plaza | Auto toll: 75 cents | ||||||
| 9.14 | 4 | 7 |  NH Route 108 - Dover; Durham; UNH |
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| 9.45 | 5 | 8E |  NH Route 9 - Silver Street; Downtown Dover |
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| 9.72 | 8W |  NH Route 9; NH Route 155 - Dover, Madbury |
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| 12.24 | 5[2] | 6 | 9 | NH Route 9; NH Route 108 - Dover; Somersworth |
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| Rochester | Rochester Toll Plaza | Auto toll: 75 cents | |||||
| 18.20 | 11 | Old Dover Road - Rochester | northbound exit only | ||||
| 18.45 | 7[3] | 12 | NH Route 125 - Rochester; Gonic |
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| 19.66 | 8[3] | 13 | U.S. Route 202 west - Rochester; Concord |
US 202 joins northbound and leaves southbound | |||
| 20.76 | 9[3] | 14 | Ten Rod Road - Rochester | no northbound entrance | |||
| joins |
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| 21.26 | 10[3] | 15 | NH Route 11 west - Farmington; Alton |
Route 11 joins northbound and leaves southbound | |||
| 22.02 | 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 | ||||
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| Milton | 27.40 | 17 |  TO NH Route 75 to NH Route 125 - Milton; Farmington |
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| 33.11 | 18 | NH Route 125 south - Union; Milton Mills |
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