Spaulding Turnpike

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Spaulding Turnpike maintained by New Hampshire DOT
Length:	33.2 mi^[1] (53.4 km)
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. Once it makes it to Rochester, however, it becomes a two-lane freeway, where it merges into one two-lane roadway, while still being limited access, and heads for Milton, where it ends. Route 16 continues as an all access highway. Exit 1 was previously an at-grade crossing with traffic lights, but has since been converted into a diamond interchange.

[edit] Exit list

County	Town	Mile	#			Destinations	Notes
County	Town	Mile	Old			Destinations	Notes
Rockingham	Portsmouth	overlapped with
		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	1.59			1	Gosling Road - Pease International Tradeport
		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
		leaves
		Dover Toll Barrier					Auto toll: 50 cents
		9.14		4	7	NH Route 108 - Dover; Durham; UNH
		9.45		5	8E	NH Route 9 - Silver Street; Downtown Dover
		9.72		5	8W	NH Route 9; NH Route 155 - Dover, Madbury
		12.24	5^[2]	6	9	NH Route 9; NH Route 108 - Dover; Somersworth
	Rochester	Rochester Toll Barrier					Auto toll: 50 cents
		18.20			11	Old Dover Road - Rochester	northbound exit only
		18.45		7^[3]	12	NH Route 125 - Rochester; Gonic
		joins
		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
		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
		leave
	Milton	27.40			17	TO NH Route 75 to NH Route 125 - Milton; Farmington
	Milton	33.11			18	NH Route 125 south - Union; Milton Mills