New Jersey Route 167

Route 167
Route 167 highlighted in red; decommissioned section in pink
Route information
Maintained by NJDOT
Length	0.77 mi[1] (1,240 m) 2 sections
Existed	1953–present
Southern section
Length	0.62 mi[1] (1,000 m)
South end	US 9 in Port Republic
North end	Dead end in Port Republic
Northern section
Length	0.15 mi[1] (240 m)
South end	Dead end in Bass River Township
North end	US 9 in Bass River Township
Location
Country	United States
State	New Jersey
Counties	Atlantic, Burlington
Highway system
New Jersey State Highway Routes Interstate US State Scenic Byways
← Route 166 → Route 168

Route 167 is a short, 0.77-mile-long (1.24 km) state highway in Atlantic and Burlington counties in New Jersey. The route is one of the few discontinuous state highways in New Jersey, split by wetlands, the Garden State Parkway and the Mullica River. Although the alignment is registered by the New Jersey Department of Transportation as 2.76 miles (4.44 km) highway, the amount of roadway is considerably shorter. The route begins at an intersection with U.S. Route 9 (US 9) in Port Republic, where it continues along Old New York Road to an end of roadway at the Parkway embankment. Across the Mullica River, Route 167 continues at a gate for wetlands, heading northward to an intersection with US 9 in Bass River Township.

The route originated as part of New Jersey Route 4 during construction of a new state highway in 1917. Route 4 was built northward to the current Route 167 northern terminus in 1926, which was designated as part of US 9 that year. The highway was 2.64 miles (4.25 km) long and included an iron truss bridge. The route remained intact until construction of the Garden State Parkway and a new bridge over the Mullica River in the early 1950s. When the bridge was finished, US 9 was realigned off the roadway and the prior alignment became Route 167 during the New Jersey state highway renumbering. The route was split twice since 1953, first by the removal of the old Mullica River bridge in 1962 as part of a sale to the National Park Service for a refuge in Virginia, then the northern portion was dismantled except for a 0.12-mile-long (0.19 km) alignment for a wetland mitigation project. Today, the route remains split and the road is still maintained by the state. Most of the route is unsigned with the exception of mile markers at its southern terminus which acknowledge the route's existence.