New York State Route 28N

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NY Route 28N
Maintained by NYSDOT
Length: 50.95 mi[1] (82.00 km)
Formed: 1930[2]
West end: NY 28/NY 30 in Blue Mountain Lake
East end: NY 28 in North Creek
Counties: Hamilton, Essex, Warren
Numbered highways in New York
< NY 28B NY 29 >
Spur of NY 28
Interstate - U.S. - N.Y. - Reference

New York State Route 28N (NY 28N) is a state highway in the Adirondacks in New York, extending from Blue Mountain Lake to North Creek. The route, 50.95 miles (82.00 km) long, is a northerly alternate to NY 28 between both locations. Route 28N was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering, taking up part of pre-1930 Route 10. NY 28N is the northernmost state route to cross the Hudson River.

The 40 miles (64 km) of NY 28N not concurrent with NY 30 is designated as the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail, a scenic byway named for then-United States Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. The byway marks the path Roosevelt took in 1901 to reach North Creek from Mount Marcy after learning that President William McKinley had been assassinated.

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[edit] Route description

Sign for Route 28N with secondary sign for Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
Sign for Route 28N with secondary sign for Roosevelt-Marcy Trail

Route 28N begins at Routes 30/28 on the shores of Blue Mountain Lake, beginning a concurrency with Route 30 for the first 10.61 miles (17.08 km). As Routes 28N/30 pass through Blue Mountain Lake, they intersects some local dead-end roads. After about a mile, Blue Mountain Lake comes to an end, and 28N/30 pass ponds at soon after. In Long Lake, Routes 30 and 28N split, with Route 30 headed to the north and 28N headed to the east.[3]

At 19.3 miles (31.1 km), Route 28N starts along the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail, along which it spends 40 miles (64 km). Historical markers regarding the 1901 journey of Theodore Roosevelt are present. Route 28N passes to the south of Rich Lake and Lake Harris as it enters Newcomb. Rich Lake and Lake Harris together show a view of the southern High Peaks region of the Adirondacks. At 24 miles (39 km), Route 28N enters Newcomb and begins a curve to the south. Essex County Routes 75 and 84 intersect at 29 miles (47 km) in the Winebrook Hills. 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. Route 28N heads down to the south and passes through Arden Lair towards North Creek.[3]

Route 28N passes through the hamlet of Pudding Hollow and soon after the town of Minerva. Route 28 passes several Essex County Routes before entering Warren County, where it comes to an end in North Creek at Route 28.[3]

[edit] History

Placard detailing the 1905 journey of Theodore Roosevelt
Placard detailing the 1905 journey of Theodore Roosevelt

The routing of Route 28N was originally designated, but not signed, as part of Legislative Route 25 (LR 25) in 1919.[4] In 1924, the portion of LR 25 from Long Lake to North Creek was designated as part of the signed NY 10.[5] The segment of former LR 25 between Blue Mountain Lake and Long Lake became part of NY 10A in the late 1920s.[6][7] In the 1930 renumbering, the NY 10A designation was eliminated and NY 10 was rerouted south of Long Lake to follow the modern routing of NY 30 south to Speculator. The former routing of NY 10 between Long Lake and North Creek was then redesignated as NY 28N.[2] The designation was extended south to Blue Mountain Lake by way of an overlap with NY 10 between 1938 and 1942.[8][9]

The 40-mile section of 28N between Long Lake and North Creek is a scenic byway named the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail. This is the route traveled by then-United States 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. From the train station there, he traveled to Buffalo, where he was sworn in as president on September 14.[10]

[edit] Major intersections

County Location Mile[1] Roads intersected Notes
Hamilton Blue Mountain Lake 0.00 NY 28 / NY 30 south Southern terminus of NY 28N/30 overlap
Long Lake 10.61 NY 30 north Northern terminus of overlap
Essex Winebrook Hills 29.52
CR 84 (Blue Ridge Road) to I-87 (Northway)		 Access to I-87 at North Hudson (exit 29)
Minerva 43.39 CR 30 (Longs Hill Road)

CR 29 (Olmsteadville Road) to I-87 (Northway)		 Access to I-87 at Pottersville (exit 26)
Warren North Creek 50.95 NY 28

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Traffic Data Report - NY 23 to NY 32 (PDF). NYSDOT (2007-07-16). Retrieved on 2007-12-21.
  2. ^ a b Leon A. Dickinson. "New Signs for State Highways", New York Times, 1930-01-12, p. 136. 
  3. ^ a b c Google Maps. Overview map of Route 28N [map]. Retrieved on 2007-12-22.
  4. ^ New York State, Laws of 1909, Chap. 30 (The Highway Law), (J.B. Lyon Co., Albany, 1919)
  5. ^ "New York's Main Highways Designated by Numbers", New York Times, 1924-12-21, p. XX9. 
  6. ^ Rand McNally. Rand McNally Auto Road Atlas (eastern New York) [map]. (1926) Retrieved on 2008-05-05.
  7. ^ Leon A. Dickinson. "New Signs for State Highways", New York Times, 1930-01-12, p. 136. 
  8. ^ Esso. New York Road Map for 1938 [map]. Cartography by General Drafting. (1938)
  9. ^ Esso. New York with Pictorial Guide [map]. Cartography by General Drafting. (1942)
  10. ^ Roosevelt received the news that President McKinley had been shot in Buffalo

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