Turnpike

Look up turnpike in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Turnpike may refer to:

Roads

• Turnpike, another term for a toll road and historically the term for a toll gate or barrier
• Turnpike trusts, bodies set up by act of Parliament, with powers to collect road tolls for maintaining the principal highways during the 18th and 19th centuries
• Turnpike Lane, Haringey, a street in Haringey, North London, England
• Connecticut Turnpike, a former toll road in Connecticut, United States
• Delaware Turnpike, a toll road in Delaware, United States
• Florida's Turnpike, a toll road in Florida, United States
• Indiana Toll Road, a toll road in Indiana, United States, often called "the Indiana Turnpike"
• Kansas Turnpike, a toll road in Kansas, United States
• Kentucky Turnpike, a former toll road in Kentucky, United States
• Maine Turnpike, a toll road in Maine, United States
• Massachusetts Turnpike, a toll road in Massachusetts, United States
• New Hampshire Turnpike, a toll road in New Hampshire, United States
• New Jersey Turnpike, a toll road in New Jersey, United States
• Ohio Turnpike, a toll road in Ohio, United States
• Turnpikes of Oklahoma, a turnpike system in Oklahoma, United States
• Pennsylvania Turnpike, a toll road in Pennsylvania, United States
• West Virginia Turnpike, a toll road in West Virginia, United States

Places

• Turnpike Stadium, the former name of Arlington Stadium in Arlington, Texas, United States
• Turnpike Esker, name of a Mi'kmaw portage trail in Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada

Music

• Turnpike Troubadours, a country band from Oklahoma, United States.

Other uses

• Turnpike (software), an Internet software suite for Microsoft Windows
• Mercury Turnpike Cruiser, a flagship model for the Mercury automotive division
• Turnpike, a colloquialism for a portage trail running along the raised, relatively bare surface of an esker
• An old type of spiral staircase in Britain, built of stone around a central stone column, often found in castles