New Hampshire Route 123 (abbreviated NH 123) is a 62.95-mile (101.31 km) long secondary north–south state highway in southwestern New Hampshire. The southern terminus of the route is at the Massachusetts state line in Mason where, as Valley Road, the road continues as an unnumbered local road in the town of Townsend. The northern terminus, as signed, is at the Vermont border, where NH 123 continues west for a half-mile to U.S. Route 5 as Vermont Route 123. Route logs, however, place the terminus at New Hampshire Route 12 in Walpole.
In Walpole, NH 123 departs Whitcomb Road and turns south onto NH 12 to run north–south alongside the Connecticut River, the water body that represents the border between New Hampshire and Vermont. One point of interest is that for the entire length of the NH 12/NH 123 concurrency, NH 123 south is, in reality, heading north on the compass while NH 123 north is traveling to the south.
Read more about New Hampshire Route 123: History, New Hampshire Route 123A
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