New York State Route 286
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| NY Route 286 |
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| Length: | 12.97 mi[1] (20.87 km) | ||||||||||||
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| West end: |  NY 590 in Rochester |
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| East end: |  NY 350 in Walworth |
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| Counties: | Monroe, Wayne | ||||||||||||
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New York State Route 286 is an east-west running highway that links the city of Rochester to its eastern suburbs and to Wayne County. The western terminus of the route is at exit 7 on New York State Route 590, the superhighway northern extension to Interstate 590. Its eastern terminus is at New York State Route 350 in Walworth.
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[edit] Route description
NY 286 is just shy of 13 miles in length, entering three towns and cities in two counties while staying on the same stretch of highway for its duration. The road maintains a pure east-west alignment for its entire length east of Blossom Road except in two locations.
[edit] Monroe County
The actual western terminus of NY 286 is located at the southbound exit ramps for NY 590 Exit 7 on Browncroft Blvd. in Rochester. Picking up the NY 286 designation as it proceeds east through the interchange, Browncroft Blvd. passes under NY 590 and intersects the northbound exit ramps before entering the town of Brighton and Ellison Park, one of the largest parks in the county.
After emerging from the Ellison Park area and entering Penfield, NY 286 intersects Blossom Road, formerly New York State Route 286A and now Reference Route 941V. East of Blossom, NY 286 becomes Atlantic Avenue at a junction with Qualtrough and Clark Roads. As Atlantic Avenue, the name the highway actually holds west of Merchants Road in Rochester, NY 286 proceeds due east, making a slight s-curve between Five Mile Line and Baird Roads before returning to its true eastward alignment just ahead of an intersection with NY 250.
Following its junction with NY 250, the route continues to the east before curving to the northeast as it enters Wayne County.
[edit] Wayne County
On the other side of the county line, NY 286 turns back to the east at a junction with County Line Road, which is actually located 0.3 miles east of the official border. Farther east, NY 286 intersects several local major arterials, including West Walworth Road and Canandaigua Road, before reaching its eastern terminus at NY 350.
[edit] Communities along the route
[edit] Major intersections
| County | Location | Mile | Road(s) | Notes |
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| Monroe | Rochester | 0.0 | NY 590 |
Exit 7 (NY 590). |
| Penfield | 1.7 |  NY 286A |
Former eastern terminus of NY 286A. | |
| 5.8 |  NY 250 |
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| Wayne | Walworth | 13.0 | NY 350 |
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| Crossing, no access | Concurrency termini | Decommissioned | Unconstructed | Closed | |
[edit] History
The current alignment of NY 286 through Rochester, Brighton and Penfield is actually the second path that NY 286 has taken through these areas. The original alignment of NY 286 saw the route begin at then-NY 47 and now NY 590 exit 6, located at Blossom Road. The route then followed Blossom Road east from NY 47, passing through the heart of Ellison Park (whereas Browncroft Blvd. skirts the northern edge) before turning north to intersect Browncroft Blvd, which currently carried NY 286A. NY 286 then turned right onto its present alignment.
In the early 1970s, a portion of Browncroft Blvd. carrying NY 286A was replaced with a four-lane divided highway north of Ellison Park and south of the original Browncroft Blvd. Following its completion, NY 286 was realigned to follow the former NY 286A alignment between NY 590 and Blossom Road, with the lone exception of the portion of route that ran on Old Browncroft Blvd., which used the new four-lane highway instead. East of Blossom Road, the NY 286 alignment was unaffected.
To compensate for the loss of NY 286, Blossom Road became NY 286A. However, this designation was removed soon after and, by the late 1970s, Blossom Road had become Reference Route 941V.
Before its designation as NY 286, Atlantic Avenue used to veer sharply onto what is now Knollwood Drive 50 yards from the Wayne County line. Atlantic followed the modern routing of Knollwood across the county line to County Line Road, where traffic would be required to turn left onto County Line Road, then turn right onto modern-day Atlantic to continue eastward.
