{"id":9927004,"date":"2024-01-26T15:04:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T15:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9927004"},"modified":"2024-06-22T01:46:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T01:46:13","slug":"massachusetts-route-8a-l-ma-2-to-ma-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9927004","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Route 8A-L, MA 2 to MA 116"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/8al\/2to116\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>25<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: West Hawley Rd and South River Rd, Charlemont<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Just after crossing the Deerfield River, keep right to stay on 8A south.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/8al\/2to116\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>25<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: West Hawley Rd and South River Rd, Charlemont<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">No reassurance shield &#8211; or lane striping &#8211; after the turn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/8al\/2to116\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>24<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: West Hawley Rd and Tower Rd, Charlemont<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A half mile later, keep left to stay on 8A south.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/8al\/2to116\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>24<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: West Hawley Rd and Tower Rd, Charlemont<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield after keeping left as we head out of Charlemont.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/8al\/2to116\/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>22<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: West Hawley Rd and Pudding Hollow Rd, Hawley<br \/>\nReassurance shield after we enter Hawley &#8211; still no lane striping.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/8al\/2to116\/6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>20<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: West Hawley Rd and West Hill Rd, Hawley<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And another a couple miles later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/8al\/2to116\/7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>19<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: West Hawley Rd and Scott Rd, Hawley<br \/>\nA mile later we&#8217;re advised to Go Village Slow. I would have assumed this replaced an old 1940s era sign with a bold &#8220;village&#8221; and more separation between the three lines, but 2008 Google Street View just shows nothing there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/8al\/2to116\/8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>18<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: West Hawley Rd and Stetson Rd, Hawley<br \/>\nReassurances shield a mile later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/8al\/2to116\/9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>17<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Hallockville Rd and West Hawley Rd, Plainfield<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A mile and a half later, we&#8217;ll enter Plainfield.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/8al\/2to116\/10.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>16<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Hallockville Rd and West Main St, Plainfield<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Just after entering Plainfield, we&#8217;ll approach Route 116. Turn right for 8A south and 116 north, which run concurrent for a couple miles. Turn left for 116 south.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/massachusetts8a.png\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9927005\">S to MA 116<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9927003\">N to MA 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/massachusetts116.png\" width=\"88\" height=\"70\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9926155\">N to MA 8A<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9927498\">S to MA 112<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/massachusetts2.png\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9927219\"> E to MA 8A<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9927217\">W to MA 8<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMP: 25 Location: West Hawley Rd and South River Rd, Charlemont Just after crossing the Deerfield River, keep right to stay on 8A south. AMP: 25 Location: West Hawley Rd and South River Rd, Charlemont No reassurance shield &#8211; or lane striping &#8211; after the turn. AMP: 24 Location: West Hawley Rd and Tower Rd, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9927004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9927004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9927004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9927004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9927004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}