Spaulding Turnpike

Spaulding Turnpike marker
Spaulding Turnpike
Map
Spaulding Turnpike highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by NHDOT
Length33.2 mi[1] (53.4 km)
Existedc. 1956–present
Major junctions
South end I-95 / Blue Star Turnpike / US 1 Byp. / US 4 / NH 16 in Portsmouth
Major intersections US 4 in Dover
NH 9 in Dover
US 202 / NH 11 in Rochester
North end NH 16 / NH 125 in Milton
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew Hampshire
CountiesRockingham, Strafford
Highway system

The Spaulding Turnpike is a 33.2-mile (53.4 km) controlled-access toll road in eastern New Hampshire. Nearly its entire length is overlapped by New Hampshire Route 16. Its southern terminus is at the Portsmouth Traffic Circle (Interstate 95 / U.S. Route 1 Bypass) in Portsmouth, a terminus it shares with U.S. Route 4 and NH 16. Its northern terminus is at an interchange with New Hampshire Route 125 in Milton, where NH 16 continues north as a surface road.

The turnpike roughly parallels the Maine border. NH 16 was signed onto the Turnpike in the mid-1990s.

The turnpike is part of the New Hampshire Turnpike System operated by the New Hampshire Department of Transportation Bureau of Turnpikes. Along with I-95 between the Massachusetts state border and the Portsmouth Circle (Blue Star Turnpike), the two turnpikes are collectively known as the Eastern Turnpike.