Connecticut Route 67

Route 67 is a secondary state highway in the U.S. state of Connecticut, from the town of New Milford in the Greater Danbury area to the town of Woodbridge in the outskirts of New Haven. The route runs for 31.00 miles (49.89 km). It generally follows a northwest-southeast path, and is signed north-south.

Route 67
Map of western Connecticut with Route 67 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by ConnDOT
Length	31.00 mi[1] (49.89 km)
Existed	1932–present
Major junctions
West/North end	US 7 / US 202 in New Milford
	I-84 / US 6 in Southbury Route 8 in Seymour
East/South end	Route 63 in Woodbridge
Location
Counties	Litchfield, New Haven
Highway system
Routes in Connecticut Interstate U.S. State SSR SR ← Route 66 → Route 68

Route description

Route 67 is mostly a two-lane surface road, with a divided four-lane section in Southbury. It begins in New Milford as a 0.5 mile concurrency with US 202 as the latter leaves a concurrency with US 7. After crossing the Housatonic River into the center of town, Route 67 breaks away to the southeast. In Bridgewater, it meets the northern end of Route 133. In Roxbury, it meets the southern end of Route 199 and the western end of Route 317. It then clips a corner of Woodbury before passing into New Haven County and the town of Southbury, where it passes the northern end of Route 172 before joining US 6 for a 4 lane divided 1.6 mile concurrency leading to a junction with I-84 at Exit 15. Here, US 6 joins I-84 West and Route 67 continues to the southeast becoming a 2-lane road once again. After intersecting Route 188, it enters Oxford, where it has a junction with the west end of Route 42. In Seymour, it passes the western end of Route 313 before crossing the Naugatuck River. On the east shore of the river, it meets the Route 8 expressway at Exits 21 & 22. It then passes the northern end of Route 115 before heading into Woodbridge, where Route 67 ends at Route 63. [2]

Rapid development on Route 67 between Route 8 and I-84 may require the eventual upgrading of this section to a four-lane arterial highway.[1][3] A 3.77-mile (6.07 km) section in the town of Roxbury, from the Bridgewater-Roxbury town line to 0.30 miles (0.48 km) east of Route 317, is a designated state scenic road.[4]

History

In the 19th century, part of Route 67 was a toll road known as the Oxford Turnpike that connected the towns of Seymour and Southbury via Oxford.[5] The Oxford Turnpike was chartered in May 1795 and was one of the two earliest private toll roads in Connecticut. In 1922, the road from Woodbridge to Southbury (the old Oxford Turnpike) was designated as State Highway 147 and the road from Southbury to New Milford (via Roxbury and Bridgewater) was designated as State Highway 125. Route 67 was established in the 1932 state highway renumbering from Bridgewater (beginning at modern Route 133, which was then part of an old alignment of Route 25) to New Haven (continuing past Woodbridge along current Route 63). When Route 25 was realigned in April 1943, Route 67 took over the old Route 25 alignment to New Milford.[6] In 1959, Route 67 was relocated to a new road (New Milford Road East) bypassing Bridgewater center, with the former alignment (Clapboard Road) becoming Route 67A. Route 67A was decommissioned, becoming unsigned SR 867, in 1964. Route 67 was truncated to its current eastern/southern end at Route 63 in Woodbridge by 1964.[3]

Junction list

County	Location	mi[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Litchfield	New Milford	0.00	0.00	US 7 / US 202 west – Brookfield, Kent	Western terminus of US 202 overlap
		0.50	0.80	US 202 east – Litchfield	Eastern terminus of US 202 overlap
	Bridgewater	3.58	5.76	Route 133 south – Bridgewater Center, Brookfield
	Roxbury	7.78	12.52	Route 199 north – Washington
		8.69	13.99	Route 317 east – Woodbury
New Haven	Southbury	13.37	21.52	Route 172 south – South Britain
		15.38	24.75	US 6 east – Woodbury	Eastern terminus of US 6 overlap
		16.95	27.28	I-84 east – Waterbury	Exit 15 on (I-84)
				I-84 / US 6 west – Danbury	Western terminus of US 6 overlap
		19.64– 19.79	31.61– 31.85	Route 188 – Middlebury, Quaker Farms
	Oxford	23.12	37.21	Route 42 east – Beacon Falls
	Seymour	26.53	42.70	Route 313 east – Woodbridge, New Haven
		26.65	42.89	Route 8 – Bridgeport, Waterbury	Exit 22 on (Route 8); southbound exit
		26.76	43.07	Route 115 south – Ansonia, Derby
	Woodbridge	31.00	49.89	Route 63 – Bethany, Woodbridge, New Haven
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

1. "Connecticut State Highway Log" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2008-01-09.
2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-05. Retrieved 2008-01-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
3. Connecticut Routes, Route 67
4. Connecticut State Scenic Roads
5. "Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Norman Husted Building, Oxford Bicentennial Slide Show, Oxford Past". Archived from the original on 2007-08-11. Retrieved 2008-01-09.
6. "Route Numbers on Three Highways Reassigned". The Hartford Courant. April 29, 1943. p. 13. Retrieved May 2, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.

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