New Brunswick Route 540
Encyclopedia
Route 540 is a 54.8 kilometres (34.1 mi) long provincial highway
State highway
State highway, state road or state route can refer to one of three related concepts, two of them related to a state or provincial government in a country that is divided into states or provinces :#A...

 located in western New Brunswick
New Brunswick
New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...

, Canada. The highway begins in Graham Corner at a junction with Route 122 and travels north to a terminus at Route 550 in Lindsay.

Route description

Route 540 begins in Graham Corner, near Eel River Lake, and travels north through rural woodlands in northern York County, passing through the community of Maxwell, and by Belle Lake. The highway continues north, into Carleton County and the community of Kirkland, where the woodlands give way to farmland. The highways first junction with another numbered highway occurs south of Richmond Corner, with Route 555, then just north of Richmond Corner with Route 95
New Brunswick Route 95
Route 95 is a long provincial highway in New Brunswick, which serves a connector route between Interstate 95 and U.S. Route 2 at the Houlton–Woodstock Border Crossing near Houlton, Maine, United States to Route 2, which is part of the Trans-Canada Highway, in Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada...

, which provides access to Maine and to Woodstock and the Trans-Canada Highway. Past Route 95, the highway continues though several small communities and rural farm land, before turning east near Oakville. The highway comes to an end in Lindsay at an intersection with Route 550.

Major intersections

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