New Hampshire Route 26

Route 26
Route information
Maintained by NHDOT
Length:	30.860 mi (49.664 km) Vermont: 0.013 miles (0.021 km) New Hampshire: 30.847 miles (49.643 km)
Existed:	1925 – present
Major junctions
West end:	VT 102 in Lemington, VT
	US 3 in Colebrook NH 16 in Errol
East end:	SR 26 in Upton, ME
Location
Counties:	VT: Essex, NH: Coos
Highway system
New Hampshire Highway System Interstate U.S. State Turnpikes ← NH 25 NH 27 → ← VT 25B VT VT 30 →

Vermont Route 26
Location:	Lemington
Length:	0.013 mi (0.021 km)

New Hampshire Route 26 (abbreviated NH 26) is a 30.860-mile-long (49.664 km) state highway located in northern New Hampshire. It runs across the state in a roughly northwest-to-southeast trajectory, stretching from the Vermont border in the west to the Maine border in the east. NH 26 is a multi-state route with both states.

At its western end, NH 26 connects to Vermont Route 102 in Lemington via the extremely short, yet fully designated Vermont Route 26 (VT 26). At 0.013 miles (21 m; 69 ft) in length, it is by far the shortest state route in Vermont. At its eastern end, NH 26 meets Maine State Route 26 which connects with the city of Portland in the south.

The number 26 dates from 1922, when the multi-state route was first designated New England Interstate Route 26 as part of the New England road marking system of the 1920s.

NH 26 is a mostly isolated highway which runs through mountainous terrain. The highway begins in the west at the state line between Lemington, Vermont and Colebrook, New Hampshire along the Connecticut River. It is connected to Vermont Route 102 via the short stub highway VT 26. The highway runs east into downtown Colebrook where it intersects with U.S. Route 3. NH 26 briefly overlaps with US 3 before splitting off east again towards Dixville (the southern end of the overlap is the historic northern terminus of New England Interstate Route 26). From Colebrook to Dixville, NH 26 runs tightly along the Mohawk River, a tributary of the Connecticut. NH 26 runs through Dixville Notch, a mountain pass of the northernmost White Mountains at an altitude of approximately 1,800 feet (550 m), which has its own state park. The site of the 15,000-acre Balsams Grand Resort Hotel, which opened during the Civil War but was closed in 2011, is also located along NH 26. After leaving Dixville, which the "Notch" is a part of, NH 26 nicks the northeastern corner of the township of Millsfield before entering the town of Errol, where it meets its only other major intersection at New Hampshire Route 16. NH 16 and NH 26 are briefly cosigned in the downtown area, before NH 16 splits off to the northeast. NH 26, heading southeast, crosses the Androscoggin River and then runs along the southwestern side of Umbagog Lake. The route passes through the northeastern corner of the township of Cambridge before crossing into Upton, Maine and continuing as Maine State Route 26 southbound (SR 26 is signed as a north-south highway).

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