Interstate 84 Connecticut Descriptions

In western Connecticut, I-84 is known as the Yankee Expressway from the New York state line to the Bulkeley Bridge in Hartford. Connecticut's Exit 1 offslip eastbound actually leaves the freeway while still in New York at mile 71.2. The state line is at New York state mile 71.46. All lighting and signage relating to the junction is maintained and owned by the State of Connecticut.

Connecticut has the longest designated stretch of I-84 of the four states the highway runs through. I-84 enters Connecticut in the city of Danbury. Within the city, it has a 3-mile concurrency with US 6, US 7, and US 202. US 7 and 202 turn north as a separate expressway at Exit 7, while US 6 heads east at Exit 8, parallel to I-84.

I-84 then heads through Waterbury where it has a junction with the Route 8 expressway. Interstate 691 ends at I-84 near Marion (in the town of Southington) at Exit 27. At Exit 33, I-84 intersects Connecticut Route 72, near New Britain, and has a concurrency with CT 72 for one exit. At Exit 38, I-84 has another concurrency with US 6 in Farmington. The section of I-84 between Waterbury and East Hartford has many left-hand exits and entrances and sharp curves, which were built for a once-planned, but never completed network of freeways around Hartford.

I-84 intersects Interstate 91 in Hartford at Exit 50, after which it then crosses the Connecticut River on the Bulkeley Bridge, overlapped with both US 6 and US 44. Completed in 1908, the Bulkeley Bridge is the oldest bridge on the Interstate Highway System. Interstate 384 begins at Exit 59; the US 6 concurrency ends at Exit 60 as US 6 heads east towards Manchester on a concurrency with US 44. Interstate 291 ends at Exit 61.

Once I-84 leaves Hartford, it is known as the Wilbur Cross Highway. The last exit in Connecticut is Exit 74, an exit for Route 171. I-84 crosses the Massachusetts border near Mashapaug (in the town of Union).