Front Plate Required: Yes
Area Codes: 339, 351, 413, 508, 617, 774, 781, 857, 978
License Plates:
Windshield Stickers:
Road and Highway Signs:
County Roads:
Highways:
Highway Adoption:
Historical:
Massachusetts issues a white license plate that is difficult to identify, but it also requires a much more recognizable registration sticker in the windshield. Its state highway symbol is a square, similar to both Maine and Connecticut, but you will almost always see it as a white square on a green background. Occasionally you will find an older intersection sign that just features numbers. These are unique to Massachusetts, but are being replaced over time.
Registration sticker
T-intersection relatively unmarked
Older highway sign without symbol
Mile markers display the distance on top and the decimal on bottom separated by a solid line. US highways in Massachusetts have unique mile markers that will tell you the distance to the state line on top and the last digit of the highway number on bottom. State highways in Massachusetts also have unique white markers in addition to mile markers, usually found near storm drains, and only found in Massachusetts.
Mile marker
US highway marker
White marker
If guardrails have bollards, you will find a red bollard at the start and a green bollard at the end of the guardrail. T-intersections are relatively unmarked, having at most a yellow diamond with reflectors under the directional sign.
Red bollard at guardrail start
Green bollard at guardrail end
Yellow warning diamond with reflectors
Town line signs are a unique shape in Massachusetts. Granite curbs aren't unique, but are found all over Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Town line sign
Granite curb
Interstate exits in Massachusetts use a larger, paler form of the yellow diamond with reflectors, and many exits are labeled with the previous designation in yellow. A green sign on interstate overpasses lists the road name and the closest city.
Interstate exit
Interstate overpass
Several states use a square to mark state highways, but Massachusetts almost always uses a green background.
Maine also uses the yellow diamond with yellow reflectors.
Massachusetts
