Route 102 is a state highway in southwestern Connecticut running from the center of Ridgefield to the Branchville section of the same town.
The eastern terminus is located just west of the Ridgefield-Redding town line.
[1][2] The entire length of Route 102 has been designated as the Robert Mugford Memorial Highway,[3] named after a Connecticut Department of Transportation crew leader who was killed in August 2005 when a limousine struck him while placing orange safety cones along Route 7 in Norwalk.
At that time, Route 102 extended west of Route 35 along Catoonah Street, Barry Avenue, and West Mountain Road to the New York state line, where it continued as a local road.
However, the town did not want to maintain that section of the road and the transfer remained in arbitration until 1979 when the state lost its case.