Route Description
Delaware Route 7 (DE 7) begins at an intersection with US 13 and DE 72 to the west of Delaware City, where the road continues south as part of US 13. From the southern terminus, the route heads north on four-lane divided South Dupont Highway. The road passes through farmland and crosses Norfolk Southern's Delaware City Secondary railroad line before passing under the US 13/DE 1 freeway. After this, DE 7 narrows into a two-lane undivided road called Bear-Corbitt Road, with the former alignment of Dupont Highway branching off to the northeast. The route continues north through woodland with some areas of homes, reaching an intersection with DE 71 in the unincorporated community Red Lion. The road heads through more wooded areas with residential subdivisions, crossing Norfolk Southern's New Castle Secondary railroad line. At this point, DE 7 heads into the unincorporated community Bear and widens into a four-lane divided highway as it enters commercial areas and intersects US 40.
After this intersection, the route becomes Bear-Christiana Road and passes between suburban housing developments to the west and fields to the east. The road becomes two lanes and undivided and continues through more residential areas with some commercial development as it comes to an intersection with DE 273, where it is briefly a four-lane divided highway. Following this, DE 7 becomes East Main Street and narrows into a two-lane undivided road, heading through woods and curving to the northwest as it crosses Christina River. The route heads into the community of Christiana and passes homes, intersecting Old Baltimore Pike. At this point, DE 7 turns north onto North Old Baltimore Pike, with the name changing to Stanton-Christiana Road as it runs through more residential areas. The route turns east onto a four-lane divided highway and comes to an interchange with the DE 1 freeway southwest of the Christiana Mall, a super-regional shopping mall that is the largest in Delaware.
At this point, DE 7 heads north concurrent with DE 1 on a four-lane freeway. The freeway comes to a southbound exit and northbound entrance that serves the Christiana Mall to the east. DE 1/DE 7 continues to a modified cloverleaf interchange with I-95 (Delaware Turnpike). The road continues through more commercial areas and interchanges with DE 58, at which point the freeway segment and DE 1 ends. Past DE 58, DE 7 continues north at-grade as six-lane divided Stanton-Christiana Road, passing to the west of the Stanton Campus of Delaware Technical Community College before heading through wooded areas with some commercial development and intersecting DE 4. At this point DE 4 turns north for a concurrency with DE 7, passing through wooded areas with nearby development and over Amtrak's Northeast Corridor railroad line and White Clay Creek. The road passes to the east of Delaware Park Racetrack, a thoroughbred horse racetrack and casino, and curves northeast, heading into Stanton. At this point the two routes head into a commercial area and split into the one-way pair of Mitch Road eastbound and Main Street westbound.
DE 7 splits from DE 4 by heading northwest on four-lane divided Limestone Road. The road heads through suburban residential neighborhoods, coming to a bridge over CSX's Philadelphia Subdivision railroad line. The route heads into business areas and comes to an intersection with DE 2. Past this intersection, DE 7 heads into residential areas and becomes a four-lane undivided road. The route becomes a divided highway again as it comes to the Milltown Road intersection and enters the Pike Creek area, passing through a mix of homes, businesses, and woods. The road curves west before heading northwest again as it passes through more suburban areas and runs to the southwest of Goldey Beacom College, a private non-profit college. DE 7 turns to the north and comes to an intersection with the northern terminus of DE 72.
Following this, the road continues through suburban areas of homes with some businesses. At the intersection with Little Baltimore Road/Brackenville Road, the route curves to the northwest and narrows to a three-lane undivided road with one northbound lane and two southbound lanes that passes through wooded areas of residences, heading into the Hockessin area. DE 7 becomes a two-lane divided highway as it intersects Valley Road in a commercial areas. Past this, the route becomes a two-lane undivided road that heads through a mix of fields, woods, and residential development. DE 7 reaches its northern terminus at the Pennsylvania border, where Limestone Road continues north into that state as SR 3013, heading to an interchange with PA 41.
DE 7 has an annual average daily traffic count ranging from a high of 65,874 vehicles at the south end of the DE 4 concurrency to a low of 3,777 vehicles at the Old Baltimore Pike intersection. The portion of DE 7 from the south end of the DE 1 concurrency to the Pennsylvania border is part of the National Highway System.
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