U.S. Route 2 (US 2) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that is split into two segments, one between Washington and Michigan and the other between New York and Maine.

US 2 is the main highway through the White Mountains across southern Coös County, where it also passes through Jefferson, Randolph, and Gorham.

The routes pass the Coös County Courthouse, the William D. Weeks Memorial Library, and the town's historic post office.

[5] East of the town center, US 2 meets the north end of NH 115A (Meadows Road) and passes the Waumbek Cottages Historic District.

At the bottom of the hill, the route crosses the state-owned Presidential Rail Trail,[9] passes a truck escape ramp, and meets the east end of Jimtown Road, which leads to Moose Brook State Park.

At the east end of town, NH 16 splits south onto Glen Road and US 2 crosses the Peabody River shortly before its oblique at-grade intersection with the railroad.

US 2 parallels the railroad across Connor Brook, just east of which the highway enters the town of Gilead in Oxford County, Maine.