Route 225 most practically serves as part of a connection between Vermont and the city of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu in Quebec, located about 50 km (31 mi) southeast of Montreal, Quebec.
Route description
The southern terminus of Vermont Route 225 diverging from US Route 2.
Vermont Route 225 is essentially a northern spur of U.S. Route 2, which approaches running northward through the town of Alburgh. US 2 turns westward towards its final approach to New York, and VT 225 begins to the north. The route only intersects two through roads: a short former alignment of US 2 literally mere yards long, and Blair Road, a secondary road which parallels Route 225 northward to the border. Both of these intersections occur within a quarter mile of VT 225's southern terminus. Route 225, appropriately named Border Road, runs almost directly north to the Canada–US border at the Alburgh–Noyan Border Crossing, only passing a few isolated homes along the way. Upon crossing the border into Quebec, the road becomes Quebec Route 225.
History
The length of VT 225 was designated as part of VT 104, a highway extending from VT 15 in Cambridge north to the Canada–US border near Alburgh, by 1938.[3][4] VT 104 was truncated on its northern end to St. Albans in the mid-to-late 1950s, at which time the former routing of VT 104 between Alburgh and the Canada–US border was redesignated VT 68.[5][6] It was renumbered to VT 225 between 1976 and 1985[2][7] to match the designation of the highway it connected to (Quebec Route 225) in Quebec.[8]
^Thibodeau, William A. (1938). The ALA Green Book (1938–39 ed.). Automobile Legal Association.
^New York with Special Maps of Putnam–Rockland–Westchester Counties and Finger Lakes Region (Map) (1955–56 ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1954.
US 2 in Alburgh
R-225 at Noyan, QC
