Wantagh State Parkway

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The Wantagh State Parkway is a parkway on Long Island, New York that links the Ocean Parkway at Jones Beach State Park with the Northern State Parkway in Westbury. It is unsigned New York State Reference Route 908T.

The parkway is located approximately 30 miles east of Manhattan and 14 miles east of the Nassau-Queens border. It runs north-south providing four lanes worth of traffic north of exit W4 (Southern State Parkway) and six lanes south of exit W4. The parkway starts from the south at Jones Beach, and runs through Wantagh, which is a populated suburb of New York City. As the parkway moves north toward Westbury, it cloverleafs with larger capacity roadways such as Merrick Road, Sunrise Highway, the Southern State Parkway, Hempstead Turnpike, and Old Country Road before ending at the Northern State Parkway.

[edit] Exit list

All interchanges are prefixed with the letter "W" in numeric order from North to South, except for Bay Parkway in Jones Beach State Park.

Exit #	Destinations	Notes
This list, from top to bottom, goes south. For northbound exits, read from the bottom up. JCT Northern State Pkwy.
W1 E-W(Northbound ONLY)	Northern State Pkwy.	New York, Hauppauge. Use Exit W1 E Northern State Parkway East To Exit 34 for Brush Hollow Road.
W1(Southbound ONLY)	Brush Hollow Road(Nassau CR 63).
W2 E-W	Old Country Road(Nassau CR 25).	Plainview, Carle Place.
W3 E-W	NY 24(Hempstead Turnpike).	Farmingdale, Hempstead.
W4 E-W	Southern State Parkway	Great River, New York.
W5 E-W	NY 27(Sunrise Highway)	New York, Montauk.
W6 E-W	Merrick Road(Nassau CR 27A).
Unbuilt W7	NY 135(Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway)	Syosset, Oyster Bay
No Exit Number	Bay Parkway	Jones Beach Marine Theater, West End Beach.
JCT Ocean Parkway TRAFFIC CIRCLE.

[edit] Other facts

A formerly proposed extension to the Long Island Expressway has been on the books since the late-1950's.

Upon completion of the southern extension of the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway, Wantagh State Parkway was to be reanmed Jones Beach Causeway between NY 135 and Ocean Parkway. Many have erroneously referred to Ocean Parkway as the Jones Beach Causeway.

A Greenway lies east of the Parkway, allowing bicylers, skaters and walkers to travel about 2 miles (3 Km) from Cedar Creek County Park to Jones Beach State Park.

[edit] References

• Old Metropolitan Suburban Bus Authority maps, and other maps:
  • [1]
  • [2]

[edit] External links

• Wantagh Parkway Article from NYCROADS Web Site
• Jones Beach State Park