Route Description
SR 351 begins at eastbound US 60 (Huntington Avenue) within parking lots serving the waterfront industrial area to the west and near The Apprentice School in the East End of the independent city of Newport News. Access to westbound US 60 (Warwick Boulevard) is by following Huntington Avenue south one block and using 38th Street. SR 351 heads east as two-lane 39th Street, which follows a viaduct over Warwick Boulevard; CSX's Peninsula Subdivision near its eastern end and at its junction with its Hampton Branch; and SR 143 (Jefferson Avenue). Access to SR 143 is provided through ramps to 40th Street. East of the ramps, SR 351 expands to a four-lane undivided street and has a long, oblique underpass of Interstate 664 (I-664) (Hampton Roads Beltway). SR 351 heads east between I-664 immediately to the north and the Hampton Branch rail line one block to the south. Access to the Interstate is provided through Roanoke Avenue and Chestnut Avenue, which each have half-diamond interchanges with the freeway.
SR 351 enters the city of Hampton just east of where I-664 veers away from the immediate vicinity of the state highway and the Hampton Branch crosses to the north side of the highway at an oblique grade crossing. The state highway continues northeast as Pembroke Avenue, which closely parallels the railroad beginning at the highway's intersection with Aberdeen Road, which provides further access to I-664. SR 351 passes War Memorial Stadium, the home of the Peninsula Pilots baseball team, before intersecting Powhatan Parkway, which provides SR 351's final access to I-664. SR 351 intersects SR 415 (Queen Street) and Settlers Landing Road, which heads east toward downtown Hampton. East of Lasalle Avenue, the state highway curves east away from the railroad.
SR 351 intersects SR 134 (Armistead Avenue) and passes along the northern edge of downtown Hampton, passing the municipal center and becoming a two-lane divided highway. The state highway becomes undivided just before it passes under I-64 (Hampton Roads Beltway) and crosses the Hampton River. SR 351 follows a three-lane road with center turn lane to its junction with US 258 (Mercury Boulevard), then veers northeast as a four-lane undivided highway toward the Buckroe Beach neighborhood of Hampton. The state highway reduces to two lanes at its western intersection with SR 169 (Old Buckroe Road). The two highways run concurrently east to Mallory Street, onto which SR 169 turns south toward the Phoebus neighborhood of Hampton. SR 351 reaches its eastern terminus one block to the east at Second Street on the edge of Buckroe Park two blocks west of the Chesapeake Bay.
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