New England Interstate Route 9

New England Route 9
Route information
Length:	447.58 mi (720.31 km) Vermont: 47.15 mi (75.88 km) New Hampshire: 110.00 mi (177.03 km) Maine: 290.43 mi (467.40 km)
Existed:	1922 – present
Major junctions
West end:	NY Route 7 in Hoosick, NY
	I-91 in Brattleboro, VT I-89 in Hopkinton, NH I-93 in Concord, NH Interstate 393 in Concord, NH Spaulding Turnpike in Dover, NH I-95 in Wells, ME I-395 in Bangor, ME
East end:	NB Route 1 in St. Stephen, NB
Highway system
New England road marking system

Route 9 is a multi-state state highway in the New England region of the United States, running across the southern parts of New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine, and numbered, owned, and maintained by each of those states. Its number was assigned in 1922, when it was designated one of the New England Interstate Routes, also known as the Bennington-Wells Route. Much of the route remains intact in Vermont and New Hampshire. In Maine, however, Route 9 has since been extended eastward by about 270 miles (435 km) from its original terminus in Wells, through Biddeford, Portland, and Bangor, to the Canadian border in Calais.

History

Route 9 originally extended 167 miles (269 km) across the southern part of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, from the New York-Vermont border in Bennington, via Brattleboro and Keene, to Wells. When New York first signed its state highways in 1924, the westward continuation of the route towards Troy was also designated as New York State Route 9. In 1927, however, because of the designation of U.S. Route 9, New York renumbered its former Route 9 as Route 7. By the beginning of 1934, Maine extended its portion of Route 9 by about 270 miles (430 km) to the Canadian border in Calais, creating an alternate route to U.S. Route 1.^[1]

Route description

Vermont

Vermont Route 9 begins at the New York state line in Bennington, Vermont, where it continues west as Route 7. It crosses the Connecticut River from Brattleboro, Vermont into Chesterfield, New Hampshire. Route 9 in Vermont is also known as the Molly Stark Byway.^[2]

The VT Route 9 section between the eastern outskirts of Bennington, Vermont and Searsburg, Vermont across Woodford Mountain is notorious for its steep and winding bends, which over the years have contributed to a number of tractor-trailer incidents on this stretch of the road.^{[citation needed]}

County	Location	Mile	Destinations	Notes
Bennington	Bennington	0.0	NY 7	New York State Line.
		4.4	US 7
	Searsburg	18.3	VT 8	Northern terminus of VT 8.
Windham	Wilmington	25.2	VT 100
		26.3	VT 100
	Brattleboro	43.5	I-91	Exit 2 (I-91).
		44.6	US 5 south	Southern terminus of concurrency.
		44.8	VT 30
		46.9	US 5 north	Northern terminus of concurrency. Connection to I-91 Exit 3.
		47.2	NH 9	New Hampshire State Line
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi      Concurrency terminus •      Closed •      Unopened

New Hampshire

New Hampshire Route 9 runs through Keene, Concord and Dover. It runs concurrent with U.S. Route 202 for much of its path across the Granite State. The concurrent section of Route 202/9 between Hillsborough and Hopkinton, which passes through Henniker, is considered one of the most deadly sections of road in the state.[1] Route 9 crosses the Salmon Falls River from Somersworth, New Hampshire into Berwick, Maine.

Route 9A is an alternate route in Chesterfield.

Map of Route 9 in New Hampshire

Maine

Main article: Maine State Route 9

Maine Route 9 runs in a rather circuitous route from Berwick to Calais, where it ends at the Canadian border - the St. Croix River - and becomes Route 1 in the province of New Brunswick.

Related route

New Hampshire Route 9A
Location:	Chesterfield
Length:	2.317 mi[3] (3.729 km)

New Hampshire Route 9A is a 2.32-mile (3.73 km) long secondary road in Chesterfield, New Hampshire. The route terminates at New Hampshire Route 9 at both ends and provides access to Spofford Lake from NH 9.

See also

• U.S. Route 202, which runs concurrently with much of Route 9 in New Hampshire
• New York State Route 7, once part of Route 9 east of Troy, New York
• Vermont Route 279, a partial bypass of Route 9 around Bennington, Vermont

References

1. ^ 1934 Hammond's Auto Route Distance Map of Northern New England
2. ^ Molly Stark Byway Project
3. ^ New Hampshire Department of Transportation (2005). "NHDOT Route Log System" (Login required). http://199.192.2.93/NHRouteLog/private/iranhdot.aspx?rteSelMeth=aRoute. Retrieved December 18, 2010. 

Browse numbered routes
← VT 8A	VT	VT 10 →
← US 5	NH	NH 9A →
← Route 8	N.E.	Route 10 →