Get To Know Your State Roads In Northern Connecticut

ENFIELD, CT — The latest installment of this periodic informative series on Patch sites in northern Connecticut, providing facts and figures about some of the state roads which wind through the area, features a route which begins in Massachusetts and ends in Connecticut, yet only traverses one town in each state.

Route 220 begins as Elm Street at the junction of Route 5, across from Enfield Town Hall. It begins as an east-west route, but at the top of the hill near some Connecticut Department of Corrections buildings, it shifts to north-south into Massachusetts. It ends at the dreaded East Longmeadow Rotary, cited by Ripley's Believe It or Not as having the most roads converge without a traffic light (seven).

• Designated: 1936
• Length: 7.95 miles
• Towns: Enfield, East Longmeadow, Mass.
• Other names: Elm St., John Maciolek Post #154 Memorial Highway (Enfield), Shaker Rd. (Enfield/East Longmeadow)
• Junctions: Enfield - Rt. 5, I-91, Rt. 192; East Longmeadow - Rt. 83, Rt. 186
• Landmarks: Elm Plaza, Enfield Square, State Line Plaza, Asnuntuck Community College, Henry Barnard School, Browne Memorial Chapels, Shaker Farm, Shaker Recreation Complex, Carl Robinson Correctional Institution (Enfield); Arnold's Meats, La Fiorentina Pastry Shop, Shaker Bowl, Brown's Hometown Pet & Garden, East Longmeadow Rotary (East Longmeadow)