Wantagh State Parkway
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| Wantagh State Parkway |
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| Reference Route 908T | |||||||||
| Length: | 13.33 mi[1] (21.45 km) | ||||||||
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| South end: |  Ocean Pkwy in Jones Beach State Park |
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| Major junctions: |
 Southern Pkwy in North Wantagh |
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| North end: |  Northern Pkwy in Westbury |
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| Counties: | Nassau | ||||||||
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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.
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[edit] Route description
The parkway runs north-south providing four lanes 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 (where it meets the Ocean Parkway at a traffic circle), and runs through Wantagh, which is a populated suburb of New York City. As the parkway approaches 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.
From the southern terminus north to Wantagh, a Greenway, repaved in 2007, lies east of the Parkway, allowing bicyclers, skaters and walkers to travel about 3.5 miles (5.5 km) from Jones Beach State Park to Cedar Creek County Park.
[edit] History
A formerly proposed extension to Interstate 495 (the Long Island Expressway) has been on the books since the late-1950's.[2]
Upon completion of the southern extension of the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway, Wantagh State Parkway was to be renamed Jones Beach Causeway between NY 135 and Ocean Parkway. Many have erroneously referred to Ocean Parkway as the Jones Beach Causeway.[citation needed]
[edit] Exit list
Exits on the Wantagh State Parkway are prefixed with the letter "W" and numbered from north to south, in violation of common numbering practices by NYSDOT, which places exit 1 at the western or southernmost point of a highway. The Bay Parkway interchange in Jones Beach State Park is unnumbered.
| County | Location | Mile[1] | # | Destinations | Notes |
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| Nassau | Jones Beach State Park |
0.00 | Traffic circle with the Ocean Parkway. |
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| Bay Parkway west | To Jones Beach Marine Theater and West End Beach. | ||||
| Toll booth (southbound only). | |||||
| Wantagh | 5.05 | W6 E-W | Merrick Road | Former Nassau CR 27A. | |
| 5.75 | W5 E-W |  NY 27 (Sunrise Highway) - New York, Montauk |
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| North Wantagh | 7.63 | W4 E-W | Southern State Parkway - Great River, New York |
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| Levittown | 9.65 | W3 E-W |  NY 24 (Hempstead Turnpike) - Farmingdale, Hempstead |
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| Westbury | 12.12 | W2 E-W | Old Country Road/Country Road - Plainview, Carle Place | Former Nassau CR 25. | |
| W1 | Brush Hollow Road | Southbound only. Northbound: use NSP east ramp. Former Nassau CR 63. |
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| 13.33 | Northern State Parkway east - Hauppauge |
Northbound only. | |||
| Northbound traffic defaults onto Northern Parkway west. |
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[edit] References
- ^ a b Traffic Data Report - NY 908F to NY 953B (PDF). NYSDOT (2007-07-16). Retrieved on 2007-08-17.
- ^ Wantagh State Parkway (NYCRoads.com)
- Old Metropolitan Suburban Bus Authority maps, Hagstroms maps, and other maps.
[edit] External links
- Wantagh Parkway Article from NYCROADS Web Site
- Jones Beach State Park
- Wantagh Parkway (Greater New York Roads)
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