page_title: U.S. Route 7
section_title: Vermont
hierarchical_section_title: U.S. Route 7 / Route description / Vermont
caption_attribution_description: English: View of the Adirondack Mountains and Lake Champlain from US Route 7, Charlotte, Vermont, October 2016 (westward view)
context_page_description: U.S. Route 7 is a north–south United States highway in western New England that runs for 308 miles through the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont. The highway's southern terminus is at Interstate 95 exit 15 in Norwalk, Connecticut. Its northern terminus is at I-89 exit 22 near the village of Highgate Springs, Vermont, immediately south of the Canada–US border.
context_section_description: US 7 remains a rural two-lane highway from the Massachusetts line to Bennington, Vermont, where a freeway is being built to the north and east of Bennington. Once complete, US 7 will utilize this new bypass while the existing two-lane road into town will become part of Vermont Route 7A (VT 7A). North of town, the highway then again returns to expressway status. For 3 miles (5 km), it is a true expressway with divided carriageways and multiple lanes. Route 7 then narrows down to an undivided two-lane freeway. There are, however, many stretches with passing lanes. Just north of Manchester the expressway ends. From Manchester to Wallingford, the road is two lanes and rural. North of Wallingford, US 7 becomes a four lane divided highway with at-grade intersections, until its southern junction with US 4, south of the city of Rutland. From Rutland north, the road is either two-lane or four-lane undivided, uncontrolled road all the way to the Canada–US border except between Shelburne and Burlington, which is a four-lane divided highway. US 7 and US 2 are concurrent from Burlington to Colchester. It is known as the Ethan Allen Highway for much of the path through Vermont.
  In Vermont it passes through the towns of Pownal, Bennington, Shaftsbury, Glastenbury, Arlington, Sunderland, Manchester, Dorset, Danby, Mt. Tabor, Wallingford, Clarendon, Rutland, the city of Rutland, the towns of Pittsford, Brandon, Leicester, Salisbury, Middlebury, New Haven, Waltham, Ferrisburg, Charlotte, Shelburne, the cities of South Burlington at which point I-89 begins to parallel it, Burlington, and Winooski, the towns of Colchester, Milton, Georgia, St. Albans, the city of St. Albans, and the towns of Swanton and Highgate before ending at I-89 just south of the customs offices at the Canada–US border.
caption: Westward view of Lake Champlain from US 7 in Charlotte, Vermont
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