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Interstate 295 north - Penns Grove to Bellmawr
Interstate 295 heads north from its interchange with the south end of the New Jersey Turnpike in the Penns Grove area of Salem County, just east of the Delaware Memorial Bridge. Exit 2A up ahead is a cloverleaf ramp meant to carry traffic coming from Hook Road (Salem CR 551) just to the south onto I-295 south and U.S. Route 40 west back over the bridge into Delaware. Exit 2B also targets the same traffic trying to reach US 40 east, as Hook Road does not directly connect to the Turnpike's split with US 40. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
A New Jersey welcome sign hangs overhead at exits 2B-C. Exit 2C leads out to U.S. Route 130 and Deepwater. US 130 parallels I-295 for nearly its entire length. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
New Jersey Route 140 is the intersecting route of the 40/130 connector, crossing I-295 half a mile from a state welcome center. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
The rest area is to the right. Peter took down his E-ZPass transponder by the time he snapped this photo. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
The first proper I-295 reassurance in New Jersey is between the rest area entrance and exit. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
Paulsboro, Bellmawr and Ewing (the latter north of Trenton) are a respective 16, 24 and 72 miles away. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
An old sign for an "NJ PASS" service (since rebranded into New Jersey's E-ZPass division) sits at right at the rest area exit. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
The speed limit for now is 65 miles per hour. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
Exit 4 with New Jersey Route 48 toward Penns Grove and Woodstown is 1¼ miles away. All commercial vehicles are directed off I-295 at this exit. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
Exit 4 serves Carneys Point Township. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
At mile marker 3 sits an overhead virtual weigh sensor for trucks equipped to bypass the forthcoming weigh station. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
The weigh station entrance sits in the distance. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
The Interstate curves prior to the weigh station exit. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
Just before exit 4, Georgetown Road passes overhead. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
Exit 4 is on the right. NJ 48 is another quick link between US 130 and US 40. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
The exit 4 gore sign. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
Trees envelop the highway at the NJ 48 overpass. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
On the next I-295 reassurance marker, the "102" sign below indicates its status as part of the National Truck Network. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
Next, the highway passes underneath Penns Grove Auburn Road which runs eastward from US 130 out of Penns Grove. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
Exit 7 at Straughns Mill Road, to Auburn and Pedricktown, is a mile away. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
Woolwich Township can be reached from the next three exits. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
Perkintown Road passes overhead just before exit 7. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
Trees line the median at exit 7. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
Straughns Mill, passed under by I-295 here, goes from Mill Street at Five Points, Oldmans Township south to Pennsville Auburn Road, in the meantime crossing Oldmans Creek tributary Beaver Creek. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
After a break in the median trees, they appear again at the Pedricktown-Woodstown Road overpass. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
The median becomes open again as the highway slopes slightly, almost unnoticeably downward. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
I-295 then proceeds over Oldmans Creek into Gloucester County. Oldmans Creek has its source at the tidal Delaware a few miles upstream. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
Exit 10 with Center Square Road, serving Swedesboro, is a mile away. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
The next three exits all serve Logan Township. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
Exit 10 is just past its accompanying mile marker. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
About a mile later, I-295, with a northbound control city of Trenton, reaches its exchange with U.S. Route 322. In the distance, exit 11A leads to US 322 east toward the NJTP and Mullica Hill. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
Soon afterward, the cloverleaf exit 11B leads to US 322 west, bound for Bridgeport and the Commodore Barry Bridge, which takes US 322 over the Delaware into Chester, Pennsylvania. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
Several miles further along, exits 21 and 22 intersect a total of four county routes leading to the cities of National Park and Gloucester County seat Woodbury. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
Exit 22 is seen at far right with added control city Red Bank. By this time, I-295 has been joined by US 130 for a concurrency, with Camden being added as a control city for the former. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
At exit 23, US 130 splits from the Interstate northward to Westville and Gloucester. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
Then, in Deptford Township, I-295 is nearing exits (26 and 27, respectively) to southbound New Jersey Route 42 which segues into the Atlantic City Expressway a few miles to the south, and Interstate 76 which leads to Camden via its child Interstate 676, as well as Philadelphia via the Walt Whitman Bridge over the Delaware. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
Part of the 295/76/42 Direct Connection project, exit 26 opened in 2023. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
Creek Road subsequently passes overhead, and I-295 has entered the Bellmawr area of Camden County. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
I-295 through traffic is about to be faced with two quick shifts in orientation as it acts as the link between NJ 42 and I-76. Photo taken 01-25-2025.
This is the eastern terminus of the eastern iteration of I-76, which goes as far as Seville, Ohio via Philadelphia, Harrisburg, the northern Pittsburgh metro, and Akron, Much of it runs along the Pennsylvania and Ohio turnpikes. A separate I-76 runs through northeastern Colorado and Nebraska. Photo taken 01-25-2025.