Delaware Route 1A

Route information

Maintained by DelDOT

Length:

2.92 mi (4.70 km)

Existed:

1974 – present

Major junctions

South end:

DE 1 in Dewey Beach

DE 1B in Rehoboth Beach

North end:

DE 1 near Rehoboth Beach

Location

Counties:

Sussex

Highway system

Delaware State Route System

List
Byways

← DE 1		DE 1B →
← DE 14	DE 14A	DE 15 →

Delaware Route 14A
Location:	Dewey Beach-Rehoboth Beach
Length:	2.92 mi (4.70 km)
Existed:	1966–1977

Delaware Route 1A (DE 1A) is a state highway in Sussex County, Delaware. The route runs 2.92 mi (4.70 km) from DE 1 in Dewey Beach to another intersection with DE 1 west of Rehoboth Beach. The route provides access to Rehoboth Beach from DE 1, heading north before turning to the west. DE 1A follows King Charles Avenue, Bayard Avenue, 2nd Street (southbound), Christian Street (northbound), and Rehoboth Avenue.

What is now DE 1A was originally a part of DE 14 between 1936 and 1942. The road was designated DE 14A by 1966. In the 1970s, DE 1A was designated along DE 14A for a few years before DE 14A was decommissioned in favor of DE 1A. Between 2002 and 2006, a streetscape project revitalized the Rehoboth Avenue portion of the route and a roundabout was added at the entrance to Rehoboth Beach.

DE 1A begins at an intersection with DE 1 in Dewey Beach, heading north on two-lane undivided King Charles Avenue. The road passes through residential areas before it curves northwest and runs to the south of Silver Lake. The route bends north and crosses the lake, where it enters Rehoboth Beach. Here, the name changes to Bayard Avenue and it becomes a divided highway. DE 1A becomes undivided again and comes to an intersection with Christian Street. At this point, northbound DE 1A turns northwest onto Christian Street to reach Rehoboth Avenue while southbound DE 1A follows 2nd Street north to Rehoboth Avenue.

The highway heads west along four-lane divided Rehoboth Avenue and passes businesses. The road intersects DE 1B, which provides access to DE 1, before it comes to a roundabout at Grove Street/Columbia Avenue. Following this, the route narrows into a two-lane undivided road and passes south of the Rehoboth Beach-Dewey Beach Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center and the Rehoboth Beach Museum before crossing the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal on a drawbridge and leaving Rehoboth Beach. DE 1A continues west past homes and businesses and ends at another intersection with DE 1. This intersection has no direct access from DE 1A to southbound DE 1. Motorists from DE 1A wanting access to southbound DE 1 must follow Service Road parallel to DE 1 that provides access to DE 1 at the Shuttle Road intersection.

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