Route 101 East - Bedford & Manchester

Angling northeast from the Bedford town center, NH 101 approaches both the south end of NH 114 and the freeway leading east to south Manchester.

07/30/07

NH 114 stems northwest along an expressway bypass of Bedford to the west while en route to Goffstown. The state route totals 60.4 miles overall from Bedford to Grantham. NH 101 otherwise turns southeast to bypass Bedford to Interstate 293 south across the Merrimack River.

07/30/07

Boynton Street extends northeast from NH 101 and 114 into southwest Manchester. The street provides a direct route to the Queen City Bridge (U.S. 3 & NH 3A) into south Downtown.

07/30/07

Reassurance marker for NH 101 posted as the freeway approaches the Plummer Road overpass east of NH 114.

07/30/07

A folded diamond interchange joins NH 101 with Meetinghouse Road and U.S. 3 (South River Road) in one half mile.

07/30/07

Meetinghouse Road met NH 101 previously east of the Bedford town center. The residential through road continues east to end at U.S. 3 (South River Road) just south of the NH 101 over crossing.

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Interests to Downtown Manchester including the Civic Arena (Verizon Wireless Arena) are directed onto Interstate 293 (F.E. Everett Turnpike) north beyond the U.S. 3 off-ramp.

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Drivers depart NH 101 east for Meetinghouse Road. U.S. 3 leads north parallel to I-293 as a commercial arterial to 2nd Street and southwest Manchester. The local route winds east across F.E. Everett Turnpike to a number of office parks and apartment complexes southward to Merrimack.

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U.S. 3 provides a local route to the F.E. Everett Turnpike south to Nashua, where the two combine into Massachusetts. Northward U.S. 3 takes 2nd Street to the Queen City Bridge and Downtown Manchester.

07/30/07

Crossing over U.S. 3, NH 101 east immediately enters a directional cloverleaf interchange with Interstate 293 north and the F.E. Everett Turnpike. The Turnpike links Manchester with Manchester-Boston Regional Airport (MHT) at the next southbound exit, where it becomes a toll road south to Merrimack and Nashua.

07/30/07

NH 101 east merges with Interstate 293 south as a left side ramp adds traffic from the F.E. Everett Turnpike southbound. The turnpike is unnumbered from I-293 south to Exit 7 in Nashua, where U.S. 3 joins a free portion of the route around Nashua. The Turnpike and U.S. 3 provide a high speed route south to Lowell and I-95 outside Bedford, Massachusetts.

10/06/14