State Route 168 North

SR 168 expands from a five lane commercial boulevard into a four lane, divided highway north from the North Carolina state line and North Point Boulevard. The first confirming marker stands beyond the intersection with Neck Road.

12/17/01

Old Battlefield Boulevard spurs south from SR 168 at the intersection with Station Road to Ballahack Road and the community of Northwest. Ballahack Road leads west to the Naval Support Activity Norfolk Northwest Annex and U.S. 17 at Dismal Swamp.

08/24/09

SR 168 Business branches northwest from SR 168 along Battlefield Boulevard while SR 168 shifts onto the Chesapeake Expressway.

08/24/09

The Chesapeake Expressway main line toll plaza lies west of St. Brides in Chesapeake.

08/24/09

The original toll plaza was expanded with three cash lanes on the outside.

08/24/09

SR 168 Business (Battlefield Boulevard) and SR 168 (Chesapeake Expressway) converge at a half diamond interchange (Exit 5) north of Indian Creek Road.

12/17/01

SR 168 Business (Battlefield Boulevard) loops east from the Chesapeake Expressway at Exit 5 to the community of Hickory.

08/24/09

Hillcrest Parkway meets SR 168 (Chesapeake Expressway) at a parclo interchange (Exit 8) between Edinburgh Parkway and SR 168 Business (Battlefield Boulevard).

08/24/09

Opening up previously undeveloped land to the west for commercial development, Hillcrest Parkway was built at the same time of the Chesapeake Expressway.

08/24/09

Advancing north into Great Bridge SR 168 Business (Battlefield Boulevard) switches sides with the Chesapeake Expressway again ahead of Exit 10 for Hanbury Road.

08/24/09

The original Great Bridge Bypass separated from Battlefield Boulevard at a wye interchange south of Exit 10. The six-ramp parclo interchange with Hanbury Road was constructed as part of the Chesapeake Expressway.

12/17/01

The loop ramp for Hanbury Road west at Exit 10A was added later. Hanbury Road heads west to Battlefield Boulevard and Johnstown Road in Great Bridge. Etheridge Manor Boulevard extends east through suburban areas to Centerville Turnpike.

08/24/09

SR 168 (Great Bridge Bypass) passes between the Coopers Creek Manor and Kensington Chase subdivisions beyond this confirming marker posted north of Exit 10.

08/24/09

SR 165 follows a 40.72 mile circuitous route around Hampton Roads through portions of Chesapeake, Virginia Beach and Norfolk. SR 165 (Mt. Pleasant Road) stems 0.75 miles east from SR 168 Business (Battlefield Boulevard) to a parclo interchange (Exit 11) with SR 168.

08/24/09

SR 168 (Great Bridge Bypass) spans the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal (ICWW) north ahead of Exit 12 for SR 190 (Kempsville Road) east at Oak Grove.

08/24/09

SR 168 Business (Battlefield Boulevard) meets SR 168 for the fourth time at a cloverleaf interchange adjacent to SR 190 (Kempsville Road / Great Bridge Boulevard) in Oak Grove.

08/24/09

SR 190 forms a 15.43 mile long loop from SR 166 (Bainbridge Boulevard) in Chesapeake to SR 225 (Independence Boulevard) in Virginia Beach.

08/24/09

Exit 12 was added after 2001. Previously there was no direct access to SR 190 (Kempsville Road) from the Great Bridge Bypass northbound.

08/24/09

SR 168 (Great Bridge Bypass) continues two miles from SR 190 (Kempsville Road) to the exchange with I-64 (Hampton Roads Beltway), I-464 and U.S 17 north.

08/24/09

SR 168 Business (Battlefield Boulevard) continues another 2.99 miles north from Exit 13A to SR 168 at I-64 along a heavily developed commercial arterial.

08/24/09

Exit 13B loops onto SR 168 Business (Battlefield Boulevard) south to SR 190 (Great Bridge Road) west at Oak Grove and back into Great Bridge.

07/28/13

SR 168 (Oak Grove Connector) parallels SR 190 (Great Bridge Boulevard) northwest to Oak Grove Lake.

07/28/13

Travel times aid tourists returning northward from the Outer Banks of North Carolina to I-64 west from Hampton.

07/28/13

U.S. 17 converges with SR 168 (Oak Grove Connector) northeast at Exit 15B, ahead of the cloverleaf interchange with I-64/464. U.S. 17 was realigned eastward onto Dominion Boulevard (former SR 104) from the Dismal Swamp Canal in December 2001.

08/24/09

U.S. 17 continues from the Oak Grove Connector (Chesapeake Expressway) onto I-64 (Hampton Roads Beltway) west to George Washington Memorial Highway at Exit 296.

07/28/13

Exit 15A takes SR 168 east from the Oak Grove Connector around the directional T interchange (Exit 15B) with U.S. 17 (Dominion Boulevard) directly onto I-64 east ahead of Battlefield Boulevard. Providing a direct route north to I-264 between Downtown Portsmouth and Norfolk, I-464 begins in one half mile.

08/24/09

Regional traffic headed to Williamsburg and Richmond is directed onto I-64 west to Interstate 664 north across the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge Tunnel.

07/28/13

U.S. 17 (Dominion Boulevard) angles southwest along a limited access expressway to the tolled Veterans Bridge spanning the Elizabeth River Southern Branch. U.S. 17 crosses the North Carolina line in 16.97 miles en route to Elizabeth City.

07/28/13

SR 168 (Tidewater Drive) north at the grade separated intersection with SR 165 (Little Creek Road) near Denby Park in Norfolk. SR 170 formerly overlapped with SR 165 west from Military Highway to Admiral Taussig Boulevard (I-564).

04/13/01