New York State Route 9N

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NYSDOT and the city of Saratoga Springs
Length143.49 mi[1] (230.92 km)
Existed1930[2]–present
Major junctions
South end US 9 / NY 29 / NY 50 / NY 9P in Saratoga Springs
Major intersections
North end US 9 / NY 22 in Keeseville
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew York
CountiesSaratoga, Warren, Essex, Clinton
Highway system
← NY 9M→ NY 9P
← NY 9JNY 9K→ NY 9L

New York State Route 9N (NY 9N) is a north–south

hamlet of Elizabethtown
.

Much of NY 9N runs alongside either a river or a lake. It follows the

Ticonderoga and Westport, and the Ausable River from Keene to Keeseville. The other portions of NY 9N pass through predominantly rural and mountainous regions of the Adirondack Mountains
.

The NY 9N designation was originally created as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York to replace New York State Route 9W, a route assigned to an alternate routing of US 9 from Elizabethtown to Keeseville. NY 9N was extended southward to Lake George in March 1936 and to Saratoga Springs in the early 1950s, supplanting several other routes (including New York State Route 9K) in the process.

Route description

NY 9N is the longest suffixed route in the state, extending for 143.5 miles (230.9 km) from

Ticonderoga, and Elizabethtown. It overlaps its parent route, US 9, in Lake George and Elizabethtown and meets Interstate 87 (I-87) four times.[1]

Saratoga County

NY 9N begins at the intersection of Church Street, Broadway (

hamlet of Greenfield Center.[3]

reassurance shield
at NY 9N's southern terminus

The route continues on into the

Blue Line into Adirondack Park. Not far to the north, NY 9N enters the village of Corinth, situated on the west bank of the Hudson River. The highway follows Saratoga Avenue and Maple Streets into the village center, where it turns north and exits the village on Main Street. NY 9N follows the western edge of the river north for roughly 4 miles (6 km) through the towns of Corinth and Hadley before crossing over it and passing from Saratoga County to Warren County.[3]

Warren County

Across the county line in

Adirondack Northway) at exit 21 and meets US 9.[3] Here, it joins its parent route northward toward the village of Lake George. The conjoined routes intersect the northern end of NY 9L just south of the village line before becoming Canada Street and entering the village limits upon crossing over West Brook. US 9 and NY 9N serve as the primary north–south thoroughfare through the village before splitting at the north end of the village. While US 9 continues to the north, NY 9N heads northeast along the western edge of Lake George.[3]

The portion of NY 9N between Lake George village and Hague is relatively isolated, with mountains lining the western edge of the highway and the lakeshore located to the immediate east. Along this stretch, NY 9N serves numerous lakeside hamlets, the southernmost of which is Diamond Point, a community just south of the Lake George–Bolton town line. The route continues on, passing through the hamlets of Bolton and Bolton Landing, the latter of which is home to The Sagamore, a resort situated on an island in Lake George.[3]

View of NY 9N from the North End Trailhead in Bolton.

North of Bolton Landing, the route leaves the main lake and instead follows the edge of Northwest Bay, an inlet separated from Lake George itself by a large, mountainous peninsula. The bay abruptly ends about 2 miles (3.2 km) to the north, at which point NY 9N curves to the east and proceeds through a pass in the mountains to rejoin the western edge of Lake George at Sabbath Day Point in the town of Hague. Here, the route turns back to the north and follows Lake George to the hamlet of Hague, where it meets the northern (signed as the eastern) terminus of NY 8. NY 9N continues to serve as the lakeside roadway for another 3 miles (5 km) before curving away from the lake and entering Essex County.[3]

Essex and Clinton counties

Now in the town of

NY 74, the latter of which serves as a northerly bypass of Ticonderoga. NY 22 joins NY 9N here, following the route out of the hamlet.[3]

NY 9N and NY 22 head generally northward through an area of lowlands, which eventually give way to Lake Champlain as the conjoined routes pass into the town of Crown Point. Once again, NY 9N serves as the lakeside highway as it follows the western edge of the lake through the hamlet of Crown Point to the peninsula that gives the town its name. While NY 9N and NY 22 pass by Crown Point to the west, NY 185 directly serves the peninsula and the Crown Point State Historic Site, located at its tip.[3]

The routes continue northward along the lakeshore through the town of

Bouquet River and entering the hamlet of Elizabethtown, where it rejoins US 9 in the former village's center. Unlike the overlap in Lake George, this concurrency lasts for only three blocks before the two routes split.[3]

NY 9N continues to the west for 12 miles (19 km) through deep, narrow valleys to Keene, where it meets NY 73 north of Keene Valley. Here, NY 9N turns north, joining NY 73 for 2 miles (3.2 km) to the hamlet of Keene, located on the east branch of the Ausable River. NY 73 heads off to the west from this point toward Lake Placid; however, NY 9N follows the river northward into the town of Jay, where it intersects the east end of NY 86. The highway continues alongside the western bank of the river branch to the hamlet of Au Sable Forks, situated on the Essex–Clinton County line and at the point where the Ausable River's east and west branches come together.[3]

The highway enters Au Sable Forks from the south on South Main Street and becomes North Main Street upon crossing the west branch of the river and entering Clinton County and the town of

Au Sable. Here, NY 9N meets I-87 one final time at exit 34 just southwest of the village of Keeseville. NY 9N continues on into Keeseville, where it meets NY 22 once again at an intersection across the river from the village center. NY 22 and NY 9N come together once more, overlapping for 0.25 miles (0.40 km) to an intersection with US 9 a short distance downstream from the center of Keeseville. NY 9N comes to an end here while NY 22 turns south onto US 9.[3]

History

NY 9N and US 9 facing towards Lake George Village in 1973
Map of the area surrounding Glens Falls and Saratoga Springs, with former NY 9K highlighted in red

In 1908, the

NY 30 by the following year.[9]

By 1926, the piece of current NY 9N from

U.S. Highways were first signed in New York.[10] The lone exception was between Elizabethtown and Keeseville, where US 9 followed a previously unnumbered highway to the east instead. The bypassed section of NY 6 between the two locations was redesignated as NY 9W at this time.[8][11] NY 9W was renumbered to NY 9N as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, eliminating the alphanumerical duplication between itself and US 9W.[2]

NY 47, meanwhile, became part of the new NY 8 in the 1930 renumbering, allowing the NY 47 designation to be reassigned to a previously unnumbered roadway along the western shore of Lake George between NY 8 in Hague and US 9 in Lake George village. At the same time, NY 10 was realigned south of Long Lake and replaced with NY 9K from Saratoga Springs to Lake George while the roadway connecting Ticonderoga to Westport became part of NY 22 after NY 30 was reassigned elsewhere in the state.[12] The segment of modern NY 9N from Westport to Elizabethtown, previously unnumbered, was designated NY 195.[2]

NY 9N was extended south to Lake George in March 1936, supplanting both NY 47 and NY 195 in an effort to aid tourists.

overlapped with NY 22 (from Westport to Ticonderoga) and NY 8 (from Crown Point to Hague).[14][15] The route was extended once more in November 1953 to its current southern terminus in Saratoga Springs, replacing NY 9K and creating a short overlap with US 9 through Lake George village in the process.[16] The overlap with NY 8 was eliminated in the mid-1960s when that route was truncated to end at its junction with NY 9N in Hague.[17][18]

Major intersections

CountyLocationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
SaratogaSaratoga Springs0.000.00
 US 9 / NY 29 / NY 50 (Broadway) to I-87		Southern terminus
Hudson RiverBridge over the Hudson River
WarrenTown of Lake George29.4947.46 I-87Exit 21 on I-87 / Northway
29.6947.78
 US 9 south – Glens Falls		Southern terminus of concurrency with US 9
30.0248.31
 NY 9L south – Dunham Bay		Northern terminus of NY 9L
30.1248.47
NY 917A) – Prospect Mountain
Southern terminus of unsigned NY 917A
Village of Lake George31.5750.81
 US 9 north – Warrensburg		Northern terminus of concurrency with US 9
NY 912Q to I-87
Exit 22 on I-87 / Northway
Hague59.7296.11

 NY 8 south to I-87 – Brant Lake, Chestertown		Northern terminus of NY 8
NY 74 – Schroon Lake, Whitehall
Southern terminus of concurrency with NY 22; hamlet of Ticonderoga
Crown Point81.64131.39

 NY 185 east to VT 17 – Champlain Bridge		Western terminus of NY 185
Town of Westport
94.81152.58
 NY 22 north (Champlain Avenue)		Northern terminus of concurrency with NY 22; hamlet of Westport
98.90159.16 I-87Exit 31 on I-87 / Northway
Town of Elizabethtown
103.19166.07
 US 9 north – Keeseville		Southern terminus of concurrency with US 9; hamlet of Elizabethtown
103.65166.81
 US 9 south – Schroon Lake		Northern terminus of concurrency with US 9
Keene Valley
Southern terminus of concurrency with NY 73
115.59186.02
 NY 73 west – Lake Placid		Northern terminus of concurrency with NY 73; hamlet of Keene
Jay125.21201.51
 NY 86 west – Wilmington		Eastern terminus of NY 86
Ausable River (West Branch)West Branch Ausable River Bridge
Au Sable
142.06228.62
 I-87 to A-15		Exit 34 on I-87 / Northway
143.22230.49
 NY 22 north – Peru		Southern terminus of concurrency with NY 22; hamlet of Keeseville
143.49230.92
Ferry to Vermont, Plattsburgh, Elizabethtown
Northern terminus; northern terminus of concurrency with NY 22
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "2008 Traffic Data Report for New York State" (PDF). New York State Department of Transportation. June 16, 2009. pp. 109–110. Retrieved November 15, 2009.
  2. ^ a b c Dickinson, Leon A. (January 12, 1930). "New Signs for State Highways". The New York Times. p. 136.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Microsoft; Nokia (February 4, 2017). "overview map of NY 9N" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved February 4, 2017.
  4. ^ Saratoga Springs Digital Raster Quadrangle (Map). 1:24,000. New York State Department of Transportation. 1991. Retrieved November 15, 2009.
  5. ^ State of New York Department of Highways (1909). The Highway Law. Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Company. p. 61. Retrieved July 20, 2010.
  6. ^ New York State Department of Highways (1920). Report of the State Commissioner of Highways. Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Company. p. 532. Retrieved July 20, 2010.
  7. ^ "New York's Main Highways Designated by Numbers". The New York Times. December 21, 1924. p. XX9.
  8. ^
    State of New York Department of Public Works
    . 1926.
  9. ^ Automobile Legal Association (ALA) (1925). Automobile Green Book (1925 ed.). Scarborough Motor Guide Co.
  10. ^ Automobile Blue Book. Vol. 1 (1927 ed.). Chicago: Automobile Blue Book, Inc. 1927. This edition shows U.S. Routes as they were first officially signed in 1927.
  11. Standard Oil Company of New York
    . 1927.
  12. ^ "Route Number Changed". The Post-Star. Glens Falls, New York. May 16, 1930. p. 13. Retrieved June 3, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  13. ^ "Among Our Exchanges". Washington County Post. March 19, 1936. p. 4. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  14. Sun Oil Company
    . 1935.
  15. Standard Oil Company
    . 1936.
  16. ^ "State to Change Route Markings". The Saratogian. Saratoga Springs, New York. November 11, 1953. p. 12. Retrieved August 4, 2016.
  17. ^ New York and Metropolitan New York (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. Sinclair Oil Corporation. 1964.
  18. ^ New York (Map) (1969–70 ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1968.

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