State Route 101 (SR 101) is a short
state highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a ...
in extreme southern
Maine. It follows a southeast–northwest trajectory, signed as south–north. SR 101 begins at an intersection with
U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in Kittery, and runs northwest to the
New Hampshire state line, where it continues as Gulf Road, an unnumbered local road in
Dover
Dover () is a town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England. It faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel at from Cap Gris Nez in France. It lies south-east of Canterbury and east of Maidstone ...
towards
New Hampshire Route 4.
Route description
SR 101 begins in the south at an intersection with US 1 in Kittery, just northeast of its intersection with SR 236, where US 1 Bypass meets its northern end. Near this intersection is the exits 2 and 3 interchanges from the
Maine Turnpike. The route heads northwest, intersecting local roads as it passes east of the town of
Eliot. SR 101 intersects with SR 236 and enters the southern tip of
South Berwick
South Berwick is a town in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 7,467 at the 2020 census. South Berwick is home to Berwick Academy, a private, co-educational university-preparatory day school founded in 1791.
The town was ...
. The highway continues a short distance northwest before crossing the
Piscataqua River into
Dover, New Hampshire. Upon crossing into New Hampshire, SR 101 ends and the road continues as unnumbered Gulf Road. Motorists following this road west will soon come across signage leading to New Hampshire Route 4 towards downtown Dover. No advance signage exists in the reverse direction, with Gulf Road simply transitioning to SR 101 upon crossing into Maine.
History
The SR 101 number existed as early as 1925, when
New England Interstate Routes
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The New England road marking system was a regional system of marked numbered routes in the six-state region of New England in the United States. The routes were marked by a yellow rectangular sign with black numbers and border. M ...
were still in place. Former SR 101 ran between Augusta and Rockland, from NER 20 (now
US 201) to NER 1 (now US 1). When the New England road system was removed, SR 101 was redesignated as
SR 17 and the number remained out of use until 1940.
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The current SR 101 was first designated in 1940, with the initial stretch following the modern alignment from Kittery to South Berwick, where it ended at SR 103, near the current intersection with SR 236. The short extension to the state line was added in 1957, and the route has stood since.][
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Junction list
References
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101 101 may refer to:
* 101 (number), the number
* AD 101, a year in the 2nd century AD
* 101 BC, a year in the 2nd century BC
It may also refer to:
Entertainment
* ''101'' (album), a live album and documentary by Depeche Mode
* "101" (song), a ...
Transportation in York County, Maine
Kittery, Maine
Eliot, Maine
South Berwick, Maine