State Route 96 (SR 96) is a short

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on the eastern coast 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 ...

. It runs for , serving Ocean Point in the village of East Boothbay, located on the Cape Newagen

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. It connects to SR 27 in

Boothbay Boothbay is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,003 at the 2020 census. It includes the villages of Back Narrows, Dover, East Boothbay, Linekin, Oak Hill, Ocean Point, Spruce Shores, and Trevett. The Boothbay regi ...

on the mainland. It is one of several coastal routes which "dead-end" at or near the

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coastline. SR 96 has the shape of an inverted uppercase " L" and is signed east–west. However, the majority of the highway's length on Cape Newagen runs nearly due north and south.

Route description

SR 96 begins in the west at SR 27 just north of the town center of Boothbay Harbor. SR 27 is the only major road connecting from this area to the rest of the state and is additionally signed as "TO

U.S. ROUTE 1 U.S. Route 1 or U.S. Highway 1 (US 1) is a major north–south United States Numbered Highway that serves the East Coast of the United States. It runs from Key West, Florida, north to Fort Kent, Maine, at the Canadian border, making i ...

," despite that US 1 connects to SR 27 over to the north. The first mile () of SR 96 runs directly on the town line between

and Boothbay Harbor, before completely passing into Boothbay. SR 96 turns due south (signed east) onto the Linekin peninsula and passes through the village of East Boothbay, along Linekin Bay. The SR 96 designation continues as far south as Middle Road, where the main highway splits into local roads servicing Ocean Point directly. SR 96 is named Ocean Point Road for its entire length, although the road does continue south into Ocean Point as an unnumbered local road.

Junction list

References

External links

Floodgap Roadgap's RoadsAroundME: Maine State Route 96
096 Transportation in Lincoln County, Maine {{Maine-road-stub