New York State Route 28N

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NY Route 28N

Length:

50.95 mi^[1] (82 km)

West end:

NY 28/NY 30 in Blue Mountain Lake

East end:

NY 28 in North Creek

Counties:

Hamilton, Essex, Warren

New York State Routes
< NY 28B		NY 29 >

New York State Route 28N is a state highway in the Adirondacks in New York, running from Blue Mountain Lake to North Creek.

1 Route Description
- 1.1 Blue Mountain Lake to Long Lake
- 1.2 Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
2 Communities along the route
3 Major intersections
4 History
5 Miscellanea
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

[edit] Route Description

A two-lane highway its entire length, NY 28N is a northern loop of NY 28.

[edit] Blue Mountain Lake to Long Lake

NY 28N begins at the eastern terminus of a duplex with NY 28 and NY 30, which were together since Indian Lake. In its first ten-mile segment, NY 28N is duplexed with NY 30, heading northward beyond NY 28's northernmost reach. NY 28N is signed north-south along this segment.

[edit] Roosevelt-Marcy Trail

NY 28N follows the 40-mile Roosevelt-Marcy Trail through some scenic areas, most noteworthy being Newcomb. To the north are Rich Lake and Lake Harris, together with view of the southern High Peaks region of the Adirondacks. The route also passes through the Huntington Wildlife Forest, a campus of SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Historical markers regarding the 1901 journey of Theodore Roosevelt are present.

Later, NY 28N begins a long descent with winding turns, passing through Minerva before entering North Creek and ending at NY 28.

[edit] Communities along the route

[edit] Major intersections

County	Location	Mile	Road(s)	Notes
Hamilton	Blue Mountain Lake	0.0	NY 28/NY 30	Eastern terminus of NY 28/NY 30 duplex. Southern terminus of NY 30/NY 28N duplex.
Hamilton	Long Lake	10.5	NY 30	Northern terminus of duplex.
Essex	Winebrook Hills	29.2	CR 84 to I-87/Northway Blue Ridge Rd.	Access to I-87 at North Hudson.
	Minerva	42.5	CR 30 Longs Hill Rd.
	Minerva	45.8	CR 29 to I-87/Northway Olmsteadville Rd.	Access to I-87 at Pottersville.
Warren	North Creek	51.0	NY 28

Legend
Crossing, no access	Concurrency termini	Decommissioned	Unconstructed	Closed

[edit] History

The 40-mile section of 28N between Long Lake and North Creek is the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail. This is the route traveled by then vice president Theodore Roosevelt on September 10, 1901. The vice president had hiked to the summit of nearby Mount Marcy earlier, and learned that president William McKinley, having been shot four days earlier by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo, was near death. Roosevelt then took an overnight wagon ride to North Creek^[2]. From the train station there, he traveled to Buffalo, where he was sworn in as president on September 14.

[edit] Miscellanea

NY 28N is the northernmost state route to cross the Hudson River. One can access Henderson Lake, where it begins, north of the ghost town of Tahawus via Essex County Route 84 (Blue Ridge Road), listed above. Tahawus Road is just east of that intersection.