Delaware Turnpike

The Delaware Turnpike, also known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway, is an 11.2-mile (18.0 km) tolled highway that lies entirely within the state of Delaware. Running in a general southwest to northeast direction, paralleling nearby U.S. Route 40 (US 40), the highway connects the cities of Baltimore and Washington, D.C., with Philadelphia (via Interstate 95, I-95) and New York City (via the New Jersey Turnpike). It is the most expensive toll road in the United States based on a cost-per-mile average.

The Delaware Turnpike was built between 1960 and 1963 and was dedicated by President John F. Kennedy on November 15, 1963, just one week before his assassination in the Dallas motorcade. The highway is designated as I-95 between the Maryland state line and Newport, Delaware and as I-295 between Newport and the Farnhurst interchange with US 13 and US 40. It is owned and maintained by the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) except for a short stretch approaching the US-13 interchange which is maintained by the Delaware River and Bay Authority (DRBA) as part of the approach to the Delaware Memorial Bridge. The DRBA assumes maintenance at a soon-to-be removed bridge over an abandoned Pennsylvania Railroad right-of-way. Unofficially, the Delaware Turnpike continues on I-295 and US-40 to the Delaware Memorial Bridge, which connects to the New Jersey Turnpike.