Saw Mill River Parkway

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Saw Mill River Parkway
Reference Route 987D
Length:	29.8 mi[1] (48 km)
Formed:	1954
South end:	Henry Hudson at Bronx-Westchester border
Major junctions:	Cross County in Yonkers I-87/Thruway in Greenburgh I-287 in Elmsford Sprain in Hawthorne Taconic in Hawthorne
North end:	I-684 in Bedford
Counties:	Westchester
New York State Reference Routes

The Saw Mill River Parkway is a 28.9 mile, north-south highway running diagonally through Westchester County, New York. Named for the Saw Mill River, which the highway parallels, the Saw Mill Parkway begins at the Westchester-Bronx border, where it continues into New York City as the Henry Hudson Parkway. The northern terminus is located in northeastern part of the county in the Hamlet of Katonah. The Saw Mill serves as a C/D road for NY-35 and Interstate 684. The road is assigned New York State Reference Route 987D.

The Saw Mill is an important connection from the Taconic State and Sprain Brook Parkways to the Tappan Zee Bridge and New York State Thruway. However, commuters to the bridge are often inconvienienced in the rain, as the Saw Mill River often floods onto the roadway. However, recent roadway improvements have improved the situation.

The Parkway once fed into the accident-prone Hawthorne Circle, a former roundabout at the intersection of the Bronx River, Taconic State, and Saw Mill River Parkways. In 1972 the intersection was rebuilt as a three-level interchange.

The Parkway cannot be considered a Limited-Access freeway due to stoplights and at-grade interchanges.

[edit] Exit list

Location	Mile	#	Road	Notes
Southbound Saw Mill continues southbound as Henry Hudson Parkway at Bronx-Westchester line
Yonkers	0.3	3	McLean Avenue	Southbound exit only
	1.7	4	Cross County Parkway East	Eastbound only; exit only from right lane; To Hutchinson River Parkway
	1.8	4A	Rumsey Road	Southbound exit only
	1.9	5	Yonkers Avenue
	2.6	5A	Palmer Road
	3.1	6	Lockwood Avenue	Southbound exit only
	3.4	7	Tuckahoe Road	Northbound exit only
	4.4	9	Executive Boulevard
	4.8	10	Hearst Street
	5.1	11	Tompkins Avenue
Hastings-on-Hudson	5.2	12	Farragut Parkway
	5.4	13	Farragut Avenue	At-grade intersection, median closed.
	5.8	14	Clarence Avenue	Southbound at-grade intersection
	6.3	15	Cliff Street	Southbound at-grade intersection
Dobbs Ferry	6.8	16	Lawrence Street
	7.6	17	Ashford Avenue
	8.2	18	Cyrus Field Road	Southbound only at-grade intersection
Irvington	8.4	19	Everett Macy Park	At-grade intersection
Greenburgh	9.9	20	To (Thruway I-87 to I-287)	Northbound exit only
	9.9	20	Peter Bont Road, Mountain Avenue	Southbound only at-grade intersection
Elmsford	11.1	21 E-W	NY-119/Tarrytown Road	No Exit 21W southbound
	11.3	22	To I-287 to I-87, NY 119	Southbound exit only
Mount Pleasant	13.2	23	Old Saw Mill River Road	To NY 100C Junction at town line with Greenburgh.
	14.3	25	NY 9A/NY 100, Saw Mill River Road	Northbound exit only
Hawthorne	15.8	26	Sprain Brook Parkway Taconic State Parkway	Northbound to northbound and southbound to southbound connections only
Thornwood	17.3	27	Marble Road
Pleasantville	18.1	28	NY 117/Bedford Road	Northbound exit only
	18.2	29	Manville Road	Southbound exit only
	18.5	30	Grant Street	North-to-East exit only. Entrances from and to any direction.
Chappaqua	20.4	32	NY 120, King Street, Quaker Street
New Castle	22.1	33	Roaring Brook Road, Old Roaring Brook Road
Mount Kisco	24.5	34	NY 133/West Main Street
	24.9	36	Croton Avenue	Southbound exit only
	25.6	37	Kisco Avenue
Bedford	26.3	38	Green Lane	Northbound exit only
Bedford Hills	27.4	39	NY 117/Bedford Road
	28.2	42	NY 117, Bedford Road, Harris Road
	28.7	43	NY 117	Southbound exit only; eastern terminus of NY 117
	29.3		I-684 South	Southbound exit only; Saw Mill acting as C/D road to/from south.
	29.7		NY 35, Cross River Road	Northbound exit only; Saw Mill acting as C/D road to/from south.
Northbound Saw Mill merges into I-684 North

[edit] Pictures

The Saw Mill River Parkway in Yonkers looking south from the Yonkers Avenue Bridge

Diagram of northern terminus.

[edit] References

1. ^ Saw Mill River Parkway

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