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Route 70 is a 10.92-mile-long (17.57 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Connecticut, connecting the towns of Cheshire and Meriden.The western half of the route is an important link between the Greater New Haven and the Greater Waterbury areas and is part of the state primary highway system.
The road then clips the town of Prospect for about 0.4 miles (as Mountain Road) before entering the town of Cheshire. In Cheshire, the road name becomes Bethany Mountain Road as it traverses the ridge separating Prospect/Bethany and Cheshire (part of the Metacomet Ridge). At the end of Bethany Mountain Road, Route 42 turns north onto North ...
I-91/Bailey Road in North Haven: Route 10/Route 22 in Hamden: 1976: current Route 41: 17.86: 28.74 CR 2 at the New York state line: Route 41 at the Massachusetts state line 1932 [5] current Route 42: 13.66: 21.98 Route 67 in Oxford: Route 10 in Cheshire: 1963: current Route 43: 5.06: 8.14 Route 4/Route 128 in Cornwall: Route 63 in Cornwall
Cheshire (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ ʃ ər / CHEH-shurr), formerly known as New Cheshire Parish, [3] is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. At the time of the 2020 census, the population of Cheshire was 28,733. [4] The town is part of the Naugatuck Valley Planning Region. The center of population of Connecticut is located in Cheshire. [5]
At the center of Cheshire, Route 10 has a brief concurrency with Route 68/Route 70 to the west of the Cheshire Academy; Route 68 heads east towards the town of Wallingford and west towards the town of Prospect, while Route 70 leads east towards the city of Meriden and west towards the city of Waterbury, the latter via a connection with I-84.
Waterbury and Cheshire Plank Road: 1852: Waterbury - Cheshire: Plank Road Saugatuck Turnpike October 1797: ... Map of New London and Windham counties in Conn., 1833;
The road connecting Naugatuck and Cheshire was designated in 1922 as State Highway 325. In the 1932 state highway renumbering, [2] former Highway 325 was renumbered to Route 68. The route was later extended east to Middlefield in 1966 along former SR 607 (Wallingford to Middlefield) and SR 730 (Cheshire to Wallingford) via an overlap with Route 70.
Past the Derby Line–Rock Island Border Crossing, the road continues into Canada as Quebec Autoroute 55. I-91 is the longest of three Interstate highways whose entire route is located within the New England states (the other two highways being I-89 and I-93 ) and is also the only primary (two-digit) Interstate Highway in New England to ...