Cute little Everett Turnpike mileposts - except the second one is actually on Exit 2 EB. Yes, there's a mile-long (or more) roadway extending eastward, with its own mileposts and even an exit along the way (for US 3). What happens here is that since the Everett Turnpike has tolls, US 3 is obligated to sit on surface streets.


Old center-tab BGS, SB on the Everett.

Fresh and new on US 3 NB. State name! Oi!


Pardon the cut-off NH 101 sign, but this county line sign is why the photo exists. You're entering the green background (town of Hooksett) as most city line signs would indicate, but this one lies in a new county, the white background (Merrimack).


Old LGS SB at I-293, and then even older BGS's to the north, SB at NH 28 (snapped through a rear window, sorry).


The Amoskeag Bridge EB in Manchester, courtesy Bill Donovan; straight ahead is Salmon St., which intersects US 3 a block later.


SB and NB in Concord with US 202. There should be a US 4 shield added to the I-393 LGS. Click on the first photo for a closeup of that original state-name shield.


The south end of the Laconia Bypass, a Super-2 that US 3 follows with NH 11. As you can see, it was meant to continue southward from here, possibly as far as I-93. Note in the third photo a two-way traffic reminder sign, clearly facing SB traffic on the stub end.


The Bypass is cut short at the former NH 11, where US 3 heads back west to meet itself and NH 11 rejoins its old alignment to the east. Before US 3 gets back, though, there's an original highway bridge that just looks neat.


The north end of the Bypass also looks like it wants to extend farther north, with your straight-ahead view ostensibly that of the SB lane, with the NB lane on the right being forced to exit in a tight loop. However, Lily Pond gets in the way of a presumed NB entrance ramp - or maybe the entrance would happen further up NH 11-C. Anyway, for now the Bypass does what it's supposed to, with exits at major routes.


Onto the two-lane Franconia Notch Parkway, the only two-lane mainline Interstate highway in the United States (excepting Alaska's and Puerto Rico's "Interstates" that are designated but not signed). I-93 was brought directly onto US 3 through the Notch, but environmental concerns (including the preservation of the Old Man in the Mountain, much good that did) prevented widening the highway to four lanes. By Exit 34C (NH 18, second photo), the highway has widened back to four lanes. Both photos courtesy Lou Corsaro.

Onto NH 11 alone

Into MA on US 3
Onto I-93
To NH 101
Onto I-293 (the rest of the Everett Turnpike)
Onto MA 28
Everett Tpk. on Steve Anderson's bostonroads.com
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