New Hampshire Department of Transportation - Spaulding Turnpike

The Spaulding Turnpike is eastern New Hampshire's major limited access North-South highway linking the Seacoast area and I-95 with Concord via US 4 and with the Lakes Region and White Mountains via NH 16. Recognizing a need to study potential improvements to address safety concerns and increased congestion, Senate Bill 152-FN-A authorized the New Hampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT) to conduct a study of the approximately 3.5-mile section of the Spaulding Turnpike extending north from Exit 1 (Gosling Road) in Newington to the Dover Toll Plaza just north of Exit 6. The study was initiated in 1990 but suspended in 1992 to allow completion of the Pease Surface Transportation Master Plan. In 1997 the Feasibility Study was resumed to conceptually develop both a short range plan to address existing safety deficiencies, and a range of long term improvement alternatives to be carried forward for detailed engineering and environmental studies. The current project effort has concluded engineering and environmental studies and evaluated a range of reasonable alternatives within the framework of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). A Preferred Alternative has been recommended to meet the project purpose and need. The project is included in the state's Ten-Year Transportation Improvement Program. The Seacoast Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) has established the need for the Newington-Dover Turnpike improvements as a top long-term priority.

Exit 3, Woodbury Ave, looking south

Exit 4, Nimble Hill Rd/River Rd, looking north