A report on New HampshireVermont and Interstate 89

New Hampshire Exit 15 (Montcalm), looking south
Interstate 89 northbound in Vermont, approaching Exit 2 in Sharon
The historical coat of arms of New Hampshire, from 1876
The Old Constitution House at Windsor, where the Constitution of Vermont was adopted on July 8, 1777
I-89 Exit 17 in Colchester (June 5, 2015), Chittenden County
Site of first house in New Hampshire, present mansion constructed in 1750, by Gov. W. B. Wentworth, New York Public Library
A circa 1775 flag used by the Green Mountain Boys
The Whale Tails along I-89 northbound in South Burlington, just west of Exit 12
Fort William and Mary in 1705
The gold leaf dome of the neoclassical Vermont State House (Capitol) in Montpelier
1922 map of New Hampshire published in the bulletin of the Brown Company in Berlin
1791 Act of Congress admitting Vermont into the Union
Köppen climate types of New Hampshire, using 1991-2020 climate normals.
Vermont in 1827. The county boundaries have since changed.
Map of New Hampshire, with roads, rivers, and major cities
Map of Vermont showing cities, roads, and rivers
Shaded relief map of New Hampshire
Population density of Vermont
Mount Adams (5774 ft) is part of New Hampshire's Presidential Range.
Mount Mansfield
Lake Winnipesaukee and the Ossipee Mountains
Western face of Camel's Hump Mountain (elevation 4079 ft).
Autumn leaves on many hardwood trees in New Hampshire turn colors, attracting many tourists
Fall foliage at Lake Willoughby
Downtown Manchester
Köppen climate types of Vermont, using 1991–2020 climate normals.
Main Street, Nashua
Silurian and Devonian stratigraphy of Vermont
The hermit thrush, the state bird of Vermont
Largest reported ancestry groups in New Hampshire by town as of 2013. Dark purple indicates Irish, light purple English, pink French, turquoise French Canadian, dark blue Italian, and light blue German. Gray indicates townships with no reported data.
A proportional representation of Vermont exports, 2020
Farmers' market of Mack's Apples
Fall foliage seen from Hogback Mountain, Wilmington
The New Hampshire State House in Concord
Lake Champlain
Saint Anselm College has held several national debates on campus.
Autumn in Vermont
Dartmouth College before a debate in 2008
Stowe Resort Village
Manchester–Boston Regional Airport from the air
The Lyndon Institute, a high school in Lyndon, Vermont
Dartmouth College's Baker Library
The University of Vermont
Old Mill, the oldest building of the university
Thompson Hall, at UNH, was built in 1892.
Vermont welcome sign in Addison on Route 17 just over the New York border over the Champlain Bridge
Amtrak station in White River Junction
The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, in Vernon
The Vermont Supreme Court's building in Montpelier
Vermont towns hold a March town meeting for voters to approve the town's budget and decide other matters. Marlboro voters meet in this building.
Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy and Representative Peter Welch greet supporters in 2017.
Vermontasaurus sculpture in Post Mills, in 2010

It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north.

- New Hampshire

It borders the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north.

- Vermont

The largest cities directly served by I-89 are Concord, the state capital of New Hampshire, Montpelier, the state capital of Vermont, and Burlington, Vermont.

- Interstate 89

I-89.svg Interstate 89 runs northwest from near Concord to Lebanon on the Vermont border.

- New Hampshire

I-89.svg Interstate 89 runs a northwest–southeast path through Vermont, beginning in White River Junction and heading northwest to serve the cities of Montpelier, Burlington, and St. Albans en route to the Canada–U.S. border. I-89 intersects I-91 in White River Junction and has a short spur route, Interstate 189, just outside of Burlington.

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Southern terminus of I-93 at I-95 in Canton, Massachusetts

Interstate 93

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Southern terminus of I-93 at I-95 in Canton, Massachusetts
Signs in the Financial District of Boston point toward Downtown Crossing, Chinatown, In-93, and I-90
I-93 north approaching its southern interchange with I-293 and NH 101 in Manchester
Northbound lane of I-93/US 3 in Franconia Notch
Route of the original Central Artery, as well as other roadways affected by the Big Dig
Route of the new Central Artery after the Big Dig
I-93 through the O'Neill Tunnel
The South Bay Interchange (looking south) to the Southeast Expressway with Great Blue Hill visible in the background

Interstate 93 (I-93) is an Interstate Highway in the New England states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont in the United States.

Spanning approximately 190 mi along a north–south axis, it is one of three primary Interstate Highways located entirely within New England; the other two are I-89 and I-91.

New England

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Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England
Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616.
A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre
An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
The New England Ensign, one of several flags historically associated with New England. This flag was reportedly used by colonial merchant ships sailing out of New England ports, 1686 – c. 1737.
New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy
The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912.
Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c.1910–1913
Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies.
A political and geographical map of New England shows the coastal plains in the southeast, and hills, mountains and valleys in the west and the north.
A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts
Köppen climate types in New England
The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States.
Largest self-reported ancestry groups in New England. Americans of Irish descent form a plurality in most of Massachusetts, while Americans of English descent form a plurality in much of the central parts of Vermont and New Hampshire as well as nearly all of Maine.
World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic group in New England.
Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves.
The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England.
The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building.
A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont
Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire
A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont
Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC)
Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary.
New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University.
Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century
Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity.
A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont
Boston's Symphony Hall is the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—the second-oldest of the Big Five American symphony orchestras.
New England regionalist poet Robert Frost
Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
A Hartford Line Train at Hartford Union Station
The MBTA Commuter Rail serves eastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, radiating from downtown Boston, with planned service to New Hampshire. The CTrail system operates the Shore Line East and Hartford Line, covering coastal Connecticut, Hartford, and Springfield, Massachusetts.
1. Boston, Massachusetts
2. Worcester, Massachusetts
3. Providence, Rhode Island
4. Springfield, Massachusetts
5. Bridgeport, Connecticut
6. Stamford, Connecticut
7. New Haven, Connecticut
8. Hartford, Connecticut
9. Cambridge, Massachusetts
10. Manchester, New Hampshire
Harvard vs. Yale football game in 2003
Fenway Park
Bill Russell and Red Auerbach of the Boston Celtics
The New England Patriots are the most popular professional sports team in New England.
The Middlebury College rowing team in the 2007 Head of the Charles Regatta
Köppen climate types in New England

New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Major interstate highways traversing the region include I-95, I-93, I-91, I-89, I-84, and I-90 (the Massachusetts Turnpike).

Connecticut River

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Longest river in the New England region of the United States, flowing roughly southward for 406 mi through four states.

Longest river in the New England region of the United States, flowing roughly southward for 406 mi through four states.

View of Springfield on the Connecticut River by Alvan Fisher (Brooklyn Museum)
View of the City of Hartford, Connecticut by William Havell
View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow (1836) by Thomas Cole
The Memorial Bridge across the Connecticut River at Springfield, Massachusetts, the river's largest city
The Windsor Locks Canal Company at Enfield Falls, the Connecticut River's first major barrier to navigation
The Oxbow, Connecticut River, circa 1910
Downtown Hartford, Connecticut, during the 1936 flood
The Connecticut Lakes, the source of the Connecticut River, near the border of New Hampshire and Quebec
Great Falls (Bellows Falls) at high flow under the Vilas Bridge, taken from the end of Bridge St on the Vermont side, looking upriver
Satellite image of the Connecticut River depositing silt into Long Island Sound
Drift boat fishing guide working the river near Colebrook, New Hampshire
Harbor seal in the Connecticut River, below the Holyoke Dam, following the shad run
Riverbank restoration project in Fairlee, Vermont
Near First Connecticut Lake
Near Colebrook, New Hampshire
Looking north from the French King Bridge at the Erving-Gill town line in western Massachusetts
Mist upstream of the Bissell Bridge between Windsor and South Windsor, CT
Founders Bridge in Hartford, with a view of the Bulkeley Bridge upstream
The river near its mouth

The region stretching from Springfield north to the New Hampshire and Vermont state borders fostered many agricultural Pocomtuc and Nipmuc settlements, with its soil enhanced by sedimentary deposits.

Several major transportation corridors cross the river including Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, Interstate 95 (Connecticut Turnpike), Interstate 90 (Massachusetts Turnpike), Interstate 89, Interstate 93, and Interstate 84.

US 4's western terminus at US 9 and US 20 in East Greenbush, New York, a suburb of Albany.

U.S. Route 4

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US 4's western terminus at US 9 and US 20 in East Greenbush, New York, a suburb of Albany.
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U.S. Route 4 (US 4) is a 253 mi long United States highway that runs from East Greenbush, New York, in the west to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in the east, traversing Vermont.

In Vermont and New Hampshire, the route is signed East-West, the conventional direction for even-numbered US highways.

East of Rutland, US 4 is a two-lane highway, meandering through the Green Mountains, passing by Killington, going through Woodstock and Quechee, crossing the Quechee Gorge, and meeting US 5, I-89, and I-91 at White River Junction.

A section of US 2 near Waterville, Washington

U.S. Route 2

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East–west U.S. Highway spanning 2571 mi across the northern continental United States.

East–west U.S. Highway spanning 2571 mi across the northern continental United States.

A section of US 2 near Waterville, Washington
U.S. Route 2 in Essex, Montana
US 2 western segment eastern terminus
The west terminus of the east section in eastern New York.
A section of highway traveling through New Hampshire
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Route 2 in Gilead, Maine

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From there it travels south to Burlington, where it begins to closely parallel Interstate 89 all the way to Montpelier, in Washington County.