Get to Know Your State Roads In North-Central Connecticut

Today we begin a new periodic series on Patch sites in north-central Connecticut, giving facts and figures about some of the state roads that wind through the region. We begin today with a heavily traveled road that traverses five towns - Route 190.

• Designated: 1932
• Length: 28.27 miles
• Towns: Suffield, Enfield, Somers, Stafford, Union
• Other names: Mapleton Avenue, Thompsonville Road, East Street, Corporal Stephen R. Bixler Memorial Highway (Suffield); Enfield-Suffield Veterans Bridge (Suffield/Enfield); Hazard Avenue (Enfield); Main Street (Somers); Chestnut Hill Road, West Stafford Road, East Main Street, Main Street, West Main Street (Stafford); Buckley Highway (Stafford/Union)
• Junctions: Suffield - Rt. 75, Rt. 159; Enfield - U.S. 5, I-91, Rt. 192, Rt. 191; Somers - Rt. 186, Rt. 83; Stafford - Rt. 30, Rt. 319, Rt. 32, Rt. 140, Rt. 19; Union - Rt. 89, I-84, Rt. 171
• Landmarks: Brookside Plaza, Enfield Commons, Hazardville Institute, Scitico Plaza (Enfield); Sonny's Place, Somers Town Hall (Somers); Johnson Memorial Medical Center, Stafford Town Hall, Roaring Brook Campground (Stafford)

Entrance to Sonny's Place, Somers (Google Maps)

Johnson Memorial Medical Center, Stafford (Google Maps)