End of US highway 4 in Portsmouth NH

Photo credits: Carter Buchanan, Andy Field, Dan Moraseski, Alex Nitzman

Note: photos of historic endpoints in Portsmouth can be viewed here. This page picks up with the current endpoint. Even though US 4 doesn't officially end at I-95, it's still instructive to show a series of photos from the northbound interstate: there's a left-hand flyover from there to the Spaulding Tpk, which is essentially the east beginning of US 4.

Moraseski, Jan. 2003

Note in these photos how control points for US 4 alternate between "Newington/Dover" and "NH Lakes/White Mountains".

Moraseski, Jan. 2003

Buchanan/Nitzman, June 2005

Above and below: direct access to US 4 is to the left, but we're exiting right to Portsmouth Circle, which is the true east terminus for US 4...

Moraseski, Jan. 2003

...as you can see from the map diagram posted on the off-ramp (below):

Moraseski, Jan. 2003

Moraseski, Jan. 2003

Below is the signage from southbound I-95:

Buchanan/Nitzman, June 2005

If you take that exit, you merge with traffic using the flyover from northbound I-95, and the first signage after that is shown below:

Buchanan/Nitzman, June 2005

The bridge in the distance carries southbound Spalding traffic heading for the rotary via US 4. The right exit ahead connects northbound traffic to that road, taking it back south to the rotary - and the actual east terminus of US 4. If you were to go that way, you'd see the assembly below (no "End US 4" signs as of 2005):

Buchanan/Nitzman, June 2005

US 4 ends at the Circle just ahead. Going around it, you'd first see the exit serving both directions of I-95...

Moraseski, Jan. 2003

...then south on BYP US 1...

Moraseski, Jan. 2003

...then northbound BYP US 1...

Moraseski, Jan. 2003

...and finally the exit back the same direction from which you came: to the east beginning of US 4:

Moraseski, Jan. 2003

Since that photo was taken, the sign in the gore has been removed, and the overhead signage has changed:

Field/Nitzman, Aug. 2007

If you go that way, under the green I-95 bridges, the first westbound US 4 sign used to look like this...

Moraseski, Jan. 2003

...but now that has been removed as well. These last two photos show the approach to the rotary from southbound BYP US 1:

Field/Nitzman, Aug. 2007

Field/Nitzman, Aug. 2007

As I've said, info and photos about US 4's historic endpoints in Portsmouth can be viewed on this page. To read about (and see photos of) US 4's other endpoints, view my main US 4 page.