State Route 184 (SR 184) is part of
Maine
Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and north ...
's system of
numbered state highways, located in
Hancock County. It runs from a dead end in
Lamoine to
U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in
Ellsworth. It also has a short
concurrency
Concurrent means happening at the same time. Concurrency, concurrent, or concurrence may refer to:
Law
* Concurrence, in jurisprudence, the need to prove both ''actus reus'' and ''mens rea''
* Concurring opinion (also called a "concurrence"), a ...
with
SR 204 in Lamoine. The route is long.
Route description
The southern end of SR 184 is at a beach along the Eastern Bay (a subset of
Frenchman Bay
Frenchman Bay is a bay in Hancock County, Maine, named for Samuel de Champlain, the French explorer who visited the area in 1604.
Frenchman Bay may have been the location of the Jesuit St. Sauveur mission, established in 1613.
In a 1960 book ...
). The state highway heads west along Lamoine Beach Road passing numerous houses and access roads to beachside houses. It also passes the entrance to Lamoine Beach State Park. The road starts to head in a more northwesterly direction until it reaches Lamoine Center where the road heads due west past a school, a fire department, and a church. At Shore Road, the state route curves sharply to the north and its name changes to Douglas Highway. It now parallels the
Jordan River
The Jordan River or River Jordan ( ar, نَهْر الْأُرْدُنّ, ''Nahr al-ʾUrdunn'', he, נְהַר הַיַּרְדֵּן, ''Nəhar hayYardēn''; syc, ܢܗܪܐ ܕܝܘܪܕܢܢ ''Nahrāʾ Yurdnan''), also known as ''Nahr Al-Shariea ...
where the road passes many small businesses and sand pits. SR 184 shares a concurrency with SR 204 in this area. After the concurrency, the road passes the town offices of Lamoine and begins to start curving to the northeast. SR 184 enters the city of Ellsworth but ends shortly thereafter at US 1 about southeast of the downtown area.
Junction list
References
External links
Floodgap Roadgap's RoadsAroundME: Maine State Route 184{dead link, date=January 2018 , bot=InternetArchiveBot , fix-attempted=yes
184
Transportation in Hancock County, Maine