The 1938-era trus bridge that NY 28 uses to cross the Black River in Forestport will be closed this summer due to bridge replacement. 🚧 The 5,181 average daily traffic will have to take Hawkinsville Road (County Route 61) from NY 12 in Boonville to NY 28 in Woodgate to bypass the closure coming to and from the Adirondacks. Closed bridge is square blue box, click on box for full bridge data record.
In 1944 there was a proposal to create a Lake Ontario State Parkway. It was to be part of the Seaway Trail project. The parkway was to extend from Charlotte Beach in Rochester, through Monroe, Orleans, and Niagara Counties and end at Niagara Falls. When the Robert Moses State Parkway was proposed, the western terminus was moved north to Fort Niagara.
The construction of the Lake Ontario State Parkway began in the late 1940s, with the first section opening in the early 1950s, linking the Hamlin Beach State Park to NY 261 (Manitou Road). The section through Greece to Charlotte was built in stages during the 1950s and 1960s. The portion between Hamlin Beach state park and Lakeside Beach State Park was planned in the ’60s and finished in 1972. Officially opening February 16, 1973.
There was a US Supreme Court ruling in 1964, that caused Counties to lose their representation in the Assembly. That ruling began to take a toll fairly quickly. With the NYS Legislature putting its focus on the seven counties downstate, the parkway was abandoned, half-finished. Little focus was ever again placed on the Lake Ontario State Parkway, at least not for the next 56 years.
It wasn’t until the Lake Ontario Parkway began to be an eyesore and embarrassment, and even a safety hazard, that the state made any effort to make repairs. The parkway was in such disrepair that drivers had to slow to 35-40 MPH, slower in some places, or risk serious damage to their vehicles. Many users preferred driving on the shoulder rather than over the broken parkway pavement. In 2017, the parkway from Route 19 east to Payne Beach was repaved (approximately 8 miles). In 2018, seven miles from Route 19 to Route 237 were repaved, but the shoulders in this stretch narrowed from 12 to 8 feet.
As of today, about 12 miles of the western end of the parkway is in poor condition. The only consideration actually keeping that stretch open is that it is treated as a sessonal highway and is viewed as a historical landmark. With serious deterioration, lack of state funding, failure to complete the parkway to Fort Niagara, and no plans on the books, the Lake Ontario Parkway has become a highway to nowhere.
Source: https://www.glogowskiforassembly.com/a-road-to-no-where/
15 years ago, I drove the Lake Ontario State Parkway. It was in bad shape back then, but was an extremely pleasant drive for the rural country with almost no traffic on it if you didn't mind the repeated bumps of the 50 year old, rarely repaired pavement.
Chase Lake in Fulton County is a remote 70 acre lake that can be accessed via Pinnacle Road in Bleecker, which is between Caroga Lake and Bensen on County Route 125. It is a 2.5 mile back along a red-blazed trail, with a yellow-spur to the tent site on the southern end of the lake.
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https://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/106097.html
Old NY 10 running on the east side of Goodman Mountain couldn't have been in use very long as it's not seen on the 1907 USGS topographic maps and by the mid-1950s has already been by-passed in favor of the modern western alignment along the lake.
Follow a woods road for 0.8 miles through mixed forest to the shore of the pond. Return by same route. https://www.trailfinder.info/trails/trail/wallingford-pond
Hoosick Falls is a village in Rensselaer County, New York, United States. The population was 3,501 at the 2010 census. During its peak, circa 1900, the village had a population of approximately 7,000. The village of Hoosick Falls is near the center of the town of Hoosick on NY 22. Painter Grandma Moses is buried in the village. The site of the British entrenchments at the Battle of Bennington, 6 August 1777, is nearby and is maintained as Bennington Battlefield State Historic Site.
From the 1898 Thirteenth Lake and 1910 Stoney Creek topographic maps. Contemporary campsites are also shown on this map to see how they interact with old roads and homesteads.