U.S. Route 20 in New York
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East end | US 20 at the Massachusetts state line in New Lebanon | |
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Country | United States | |
State | New York | |
Counties | Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Ontario, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Madison, Oneida, Otsego, Herkimer, Schoharie, Schenectady, Albany, Rensselaer, Columbia | |
Highway system | ||
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U.S. Route 20 (US 20) is a part of the
With the exception of Albany, it passes directly through no major cities of the state, bypassing Syracuse and
.From Oneida County to Albany, the road follows the historic Cherry Valley Turnpike, built at the beginning of the 19th century to connect Albany and, at the time, the important villages of Duanesburg, Cherry Valley, Richfield Springs, Cazenovia, and Skaneateles. US 20 itself was assigned in 1926 and was the state's main east–west route from that time until the Thruway was completed in the 1950s.
Route description
US 20 enters Western New York closely paralleling the Lake Erie shoreline, the Thruway and NY 5. Passing through the southeastern suburbs of Buffalo, it assumes a due-east heading at Depew, taking it to the NY 5 overlap in Avon. The two roads pass through many of the communities at the north ends of the larger Finger Lakes, splitting in Auburn. Through Central New York and the Central New York Region to its east, US 20 drifts south into the rugged upper reaches of the Allegheny Plateau, distancing itself from the Thruway and NY 5 by as much as 20 miles (32 km) at some points.[3]
In the Capital District, the three routes all converge again, and US 20 goes right through downtown Albany, the largest city along its route in New York. Just before crossing the Hudson River, US 20 is joined again by US 9 for its second-longest concurrency, which ends just before the Thruway's Berkshire section in Schodack Center. From there, it drifts southward into the Berkshires, crossing the Massachusetts state line west of Pittsfield.[3]
All but 5.60 miles (9.01 km) of US 20's 372-mile (599 km) alignment in New York is maintained by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT). In Cayuga County, the 1.21-mile (1.95 km) section of US 20 in Auburn between NY 38A and the eastern city line is maintained by the city of Auburn.[4] To the east in Albany County, the 4.39 miles (7.07 km) of US 20 in Albany from the western city line to the north end of the NY 32 overlap is also city-maintained.[5]
Western New York
From the state line to the Buffalo suburbs, US 20 is largely a two-lane through road on the same northeastern heading it has followed most of the way from Cleveland. It serves as the main street of the few communities it passes directly through. In the Buffalo area, US 20 begins to head more east, widening to four lanes and becoming a busy regional artery that intersects many other roads of major and minor importance. For the five miles (8.0 km) leading into Depew, it runs due north along with NY 78 as part of Transit Road, a busy commercial strip east of the city. At Depew, US 20 leaves Transit Road and begins its journey east across the state. The surrounding countryside returns to farmland by the Genesee County line.[3]
Lake Erie
US 20 enters New York immediately after passing through
Another eight miles (13 km) of two-lane rural road, crossed at its midpoint by the onetime
Past this junction, the Thruway and US 20 begin to converge in flatter country until they cross as US 20 veers northward one mile (1.6 km) south of
US 20, which is now Southwestern Boulevard, remains straight when paralleling the Thruway, intersecting only one other state highway,
Buffalo area
After the US 20A split, US 20 begins moving away from the lake and trends more to the east-northeast. The road becomes more developed, and, one mile (1.6 km) ahead, a major Buffalo landmark looms to the south—Highmark Stadium, home of the Buffalo Bills. On home game days in the fall, traffic clogs the highway as it crosses over the US 219 expressway and curves northeast to reach the eastern terminus of NY 179 at Mile Strip Road. NY 179 offers access to US 219 via an interchange 0.75 miles (1.21 km) to the west. A half-mile (0.80 km) beyond, the four-lane US 20 intersects the concurrent routes of NY 240 and NY 277, the main route to the village of Orchard Park off to the south.[citation needed]
At the
Shops and stores line busy Transit Road on both sides as it divides the towns of West Seneca and
East of Buffalo
Taking the name Broadway, which NY 130 had retained from the city of Buffalo, US 20 goes through downtown Depew before it proceeds into the neighboring village of Lancaster. It returns to a rural two-lane road beyond Lancaster, passing through a traffic light only at the small village of Alden before crossing into Genesee County. In the town of Darien, US 20 continues straight past Darien Lakes State Park to the junction with NY 77 at Darien Center, where much summertime traffic turns north toward nearby Six Flags Darien Lake. NY 238 forks off to the southeast towards Attica at a junction two miles (3.2 km) to the east of Darien Center.[citation needed]
Past the junction with NY 238, which forks off to the southeast toward Attica, the highway begins going straight up and down into the creek valleys here at the northern fringe of the Allegheny Plateau. Passing lanes are sometimes available on the downhill sections, particularly in the next community to the east, Alexander, where another route to Attica, NY 98 crosses via an overpass.[citation needed] This allows traffic to continue at a high speed through the surrounding dairy and sod farms up the other side and into Bethany, the next town, whose four four-way intersections offer only blinking yellow lights and no stop or yield traffic control devices to slow down drivers.[citation needed]
This unbroken stretch ends with a new light shortly into the next town,
NY 5 concurrency and Finger Lakes
The 67-mile (108 km) concurrency that begins here is the longest in the state,
Across the county line, US 20 and NY 5 pass through the town and hamlet of West Bloomfield, where NY 65 comes to an end from the left. Next, in neighboring East Bloomfield, NY 444 leaves to the north for Victor and NY 64 joins the concurrency. NY 64 leaves three miles (4.8 km) later at the eastern end of US 20A in South Bloomfield. The highway continues through the open, rolling lake country to a junction with West Avenue west of the city of Canandaigua. At this point, NY 5 and US 20 turn southward to follow a bypass around the western and southern edge of the city. At Bristol Road, the first highway that the bypass crosses, NY 21 joins US 20 and NY 5 and follows both routes to Canandaigua, where a hill west of downtown offers a view to Canandaigua Lake, the first of the lakes it passes in this region.[citation needed]
In downtown Canandaigua, NY 21 leaves to join NY 332, a prime route from Canandaigua and the lake region to the eastern suburbs of Rochester via I-490. Past NY 332, the highway runs past the lowlands abutting the lakes to a junction with NY 364, which heads south down the east side of the lake. Now named Eastern Boulevard, the routes continue past Finger Lakes Community College to the next southbound highway, NY 247. Roughly 10 miles (16 km) of open road climb the gentle rise dividing Canandaigua and Seneca lakes, the latter of which is the largest of the Finger Lakes. This ascent is subsequently met by a descent as the highway heads toward Geneva.[citation needed]
Just outside the city in the Lenox Park neighborhood of the town of Geneva, another pair of routes, NY 14A and NY 245, come to their northern end. After entering the city and passing the campus of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, NY 5 and US 20 cross under NY 14A's parent route, NY 14, just before the lake shore. US 20 and NY 5 continue along the water as a four-lane road with a median and cross into Seneca County at the lake's outlet. As at Canandaigua, a southbound route, NY 96A, leaves just past the lake. NY 5 and US 20 continue on, following the northern edge of the Cayuga–Seneca Canal toward the village of Waterloo.[citation needed]
About 3 miles (5 km) east of NY 96A, US 20 and NY 5 reach that route's parent route,
This heading lasts for three miles (4.8 km) until NY 318 ends to the west right before a four-way intersection at NY 89. From here, the road runs straight in a slightly more easterly direction south of Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge, where the Thruway is briefly visible to the north, before entering Cayuga County as it crosses over the Cayuga–Seneca Canal. In Cayuga County, the highway briefly returns to the east before a junction with NY 90. The highway subsequently turns southeast and back east over the next eight miles (13 km) as it approaches Auburn. NY 326 departs to the south at the western city limits. Roughly one mile (1.6 km) into the city, the roadway briefly splits as NY 34 and NY 38 briefly join. At NY 38A, the overlap between NY 5 and US 20 comes to an end as the two routes go their separate ways.[citation needed]
Central New York
While NY 5 heads north from the split toward Syracuse and the Thruway, US 20 keeps to its easterly heading, following East Genesee Street out of the city, proceeding past Auburn Correctional Facility to the Onondaga County line. Here, NY 41A comes in from the south at the western end of the village of Skaneateles, a community at the north end of the eponymous lake, the last Finger Lake along US 20. NY 321 leaves to the north in the center of town, and NY 41A's parent route, NY 41, begins its long journey to the Southern Tier on the other side of Skaneateles. US 20 continues east for another 1.25 miles (2.01 km) out of the village to the south end of NY 175, after which it starts trending southward, returning to two lanes.[citation needed]
The landscape starts to grow hillier as it begins to cross the glacial moraines of the less populated reaches of southern Onondaga County. About three miles (4.8 km) east of NY 175, US 20 is briefly joined by NY 174, which goes to Otisco Lake, the easternmost Finger Lake. The southward trend continues for another six miles (9.7 km) to an intersection with NY 80, a signed east–west route running north–south at this point. East of NY 80, it drops into the Onondaga Creek valley to connect to the northern terminus of NY 11A four miles (6.4 km) to the east before climbing the next ridge to LaFayette, where it intersects I-81 at exit 15 and meets its paralleling surface route, US 11 at junctions 0.5 miles (0.80 km) apart. At this point, US 20 is 15 miles (24 km) south of the Thruway.[citation needed]
From LaFayette, it drops into another deep valley, curving around an area known as Big Bend, prior to climbing back up five miles (8.0 km) towards the crest of the ridge at Pompey. Here, US 20 and NY 91 intersect at an elevation of 1,700 feet (520 m) above sea level.[10] After another two miles (3.2 km), the road drops down into the Limestone Creek valley and crosses into Madison County as it curves back up into higher ground. Another two miles (3.2 km) brings US 20 to the eastern terminus of NY 92, the south end of Cazenovia Lake and the village of Cazenovia itself. Its main street is marked by a brief concurrency with NY 13, a long, curving north–south route that comes from the cities of Ithaca and Cortland to the south.[citation needed]
East of Cazenovia, US 20 resumes its southward drift as it climbs into the high ground again and expands to four lanes, passing the small village of
The major intersection here is NY 12, another long north–south route, three miles (4.8 km) into the county at Sangerfield, one mile (1.6 km) south of Waterville. From this intersection, US 20 takes the name Cherry Valley Turnpike from the historic road it follows towards Albany. US 20 climbs back into the high ground afterward and veers further southward to the next intersection with a major north–south highway, NY 8, at Bridgewater. Like NY 12, it leads northward to the city of Utica. After NY 8, the road crosses the headwaters of the Unadilla River into Otsego County.[citation needed]
Leatherstocking Region
US 20 enters Otsego County only for a mile (1.6 km), where it intersects
As it enters the county, it enters West Winfield and begins to overlap NY 51 which comes in from the south. This overlap lasts for three miles (4.8 km) to Birmingham Corners, where NY 51 turns north toward Ilion, as US 20 continues east and soon reenters Otsego County. Trending southeast in the town of Richfield, six miles (9.7 km) pass before NY 28 briefly overlaps US 20 just west of Richfield Springs, a popular local shopping destination, on its long curve across the state from the Catskill Mountains to the Adirondack Mountains. NY 167 begins a few blocks further east, and US 20 returns to Herkimer County one mile (1.6 km) beyond that, intersecting only county roads over the next several miles.[citation needed]
A mile (1.6 km) after returning to Otsego County, NY 80 again intersects on its way from Cooperstown and Otsego Lake to the south to Fort Plain to the north. The next seven miles (11 km) of US 20 swing around the north end of the east ridge of Cherry Valley into the town of that name, where NY 166 leaves at a partial interchange to follow the valley south to Milford. After another swing around the valley's other ridge, US 20 crosses into Schoharie County. About two miles (3.2 km) from the county line, the highway intersects another long north–south route, NY 10, south of Sharon Springs. US 20 proceeds for another five miles (8.0 km) to Sharon, where NY 145 provides a route to Cobleskill to the south. Shortly after this junction, US 20 straightens out and follows an almost due-east heading for 11 miles (18 km) to its intersection with NY 30A and the southern terminus of NY 162 at Sloansville. The route continues east to Esperance, where it crosses Schoharie Creek to enter Schenectady County.[citation needed]
Capital District
The crossing of the Schoharie Creek brings US 20 into the first of three counties that make up the Capital District area. Here, development along the road increases and the road itself is often four lanes. The region is divided by the Hudson River, where US 20 begins its second-longest concurrency with US 9, the state's longest north–south U.S. Highway.[3]
West of the Hudson River and Albany
Just past the county line, another Catskills-to-Canada highway, NY 30, intersects with US 20. About three miles (4.8 km) beyond that is the northern terminus of short NY 395, which runs south to the ever-closer NY 7. US 20 veers closer to NY 7 before finally intersecting the highway three miles (4.8 km) from NY 395. Not far to the east is an interchange with I-88, NY 7's paralleling freeway between Binghamton and Schenectady. Access to I-88 is via a shared access road from both routes due to the oblique angle of the intersection.[citation needed] From here, the highway, now known as Western Turnpike, continues to trend to the south for another four miles (6.4 km) to the southern terminus of NY 406 at the hamlet of Gifford. Shortly afterward, US 20 enters Albany County as the Helderberg Escarpment looms to the south.[citation needed]
It stays straight to its first major intersection, the northern terminus of
A half-mile (0.80 km) later, the busy four-lane route passes the south side of the State University of New York at Albany's highly modernistic campus. It continues into the city of Albany itself as Western Avenue. Commercial developments line both sides of US 20 to the interchange with NY 85, a truncated freeway that connects to US 20 via the adjacent Dayton and Ormond streets. The neighborhoods around the road become primarily residential at this point. Roughly one mile (1.6 km) from NY 85, US 20 forks right onto Madison Avenue and passes the College of Saint Rose.[citation needed]
After
East of the Hudson River: US 9 and the Berkshires
At the east end of the bridge, US 9 and US 20, now in the city and county of Rensselaer, follow the offramps past the stubs built for the canceled South Mall Expressway and assume a southeastern course along a busy four-lane strip containing a center turn lane. Near the city limit, NY 9J leaves to the south to follow the river's east bank down to Stockport. The road subsequently goes up a hill with a panoramic view of the Albany skyline behind it and proceeds into the town of East Greenbush, where NY 151 heads off to the northeast. After two miles (3.2 km) with heavy commercial development on either side of the road, US 4 begins and leaves to the north at a busy intersection.[citation needed] The center of town follows, after which the concurrency enters Schodack.[citation needed]
In Schodack, development along the road begins to ease as the center turn lane gives way to a double yellow line. At Schodack Center, located four miles (6.4 km) from East Greenbush, I-90 and US 20 meet again for the first time in 300 miles (480 km). Just after the interchange, NY 150 comes to its southern end and US 9 and US 20 split at junctions less than 0.5 miles (0.80 km) apart. While US 9 heads south for Poughkeepsie and the city of New York, US 20 reverts to two lanes and maintains its southeastern course for another two miles (3.2 km) before turns more to the east for another two miles (3.2 km). In Nassau, it connects to the north end of NY 203. East of the village, the terrain becomes hillier, indicating that US 20 has reached the edge of the Berkshires.[citation needed]
About two miles (3.2 km) outside of the village of Nassau, NY 66 joins the road. This overlap ends just before the Columbia County line, with NY 66 following a southerly course toward Chatham. US 20, meanwhile follows Kinderhook and Wyomanock creeks, through narrow, wooded valleys to New Lebanon, passing Mount Lebanon Shaker Society, a National Historic Landmark as the second-oldest Shaker settlement in the country. In the center of this small town, US 20 meets NY 22, the longest north–south route in the state, and the two form a one-mile (1.6 km) overlap, US 20's last concurrency in New York. After the split, US 20 makes a wide turn and heads almost south up a mountainside, climbing into Massachusetts near Pittsfield State Forest a mile (1.6 km) later.[citation needed]
History
Origins
The road from Albany heading west was first constructed as a toll road or turnpike at the end of the 18th century. The First Great Western Turnpike Corporation was chartered in 1799 to build a road from Albany, the capital of New York, to the Revolutionary War frontier town of Cherry Valley.[11] In 1803, a second corporation, the Third Great Western Turnpike, was chartered to further extend the road to Cazenovia.[12] The Third Great Western Turnpike was completed as planned by 1811 and was heavily used by people trying to establish new settlements in central New York. The two turnpikes, collectively known as the Cherry Valley Turnpike, became a stagecoach route in 1816. The Cherry Valley Turnpike name was also later applied to an untolled extension of the road west to Skaneateles.[13]
The establishment of the
Early designations
Several parts of the former Cherry Valley and Rensselaer and Columbia turnpikes were included in the new route system. East of the Hudson River, the Rensselaer and Columbia Turnpike became part of Route 1 from
Farther west, Route 6 and Route 18 were assigned in 1908 to two major east–west roads connecting
On March 1, 1921, the legislature redefined the legislative route system, altering or removing several routes and adding others. Routes 6 and Route 18 were left virtually unchanged, as was the portion of Route 1 north of Schodack Center. Route 21, however, was altered to follow modern NY 66 between Averill Park and East Nassau. In the Central New York Region, Route 38-a was redesignated as Route 39 and extended west along the Cherry Valley Turnpike to meet Route 8 near Oriskany Falls. From Bridgewater to Oriskany Falls, Route 39 overlapped with Route 23.[21] The legislative route system remained New York's primary route numbering system until the mid-1920s.[22]
Assignment
Highways were first publicly numbered in New York in 1924. One of the handful of routes assigned at this time was NY 5, a cross-state route that extended from the Pennsylvania line in the west to the Massachusetts line in the east. From Auburn west, it initially utilized all of legislative Route 18 and the portion of Route 6 east of Avon. In between Buffalo and Avon, NY 5 used a linear, previously unnumbered east–west road to the south that bypassed the communities along Route 6. Continuing east from Auburn, NY 5 followed the Cherry Valley Turnpike (partially Route 6, Route 8, Route 9, Route 23, and Route 39) to Albany and the Rensselaer and Columbia Turnpike (partially Route 1 and Route 21) to Massachusetts.[19][22]
One or two years later, however, the portion of NY 5 from Buffalo to Albany was shifted north to its modern alignment—mostly old legislative Route 6—and the former, more southerly route was designated as New York State Route 7 (NY 7). Around the same time, a parallel route to the south, from Buffalo through
Realignments
In the
The most substantial realignment in US 20's New York history occurred c. 1938 when it was shifted north onto its current alignment between Hamburg and East Avon, replacing NY 278 and NY 35. Most of the previous route via East Aurora and Geneseo initially became
In Canandaigua, the former routing of US 20 on South Main Street remains state maintained as
In Geneva, US 20 was initially routed on East North Street and Border City Road, overlapping with
Construction and legacy
While most of US 20 was constructed in the early 20th century as part of the legislative route system, many sections of the highway were left unimproved or unbuilt until well into the 1930s. Two substantial sections of the route—from Alexander (NY 98) to Avon and from Auburn to Cazenovia—were unimproved or unbuilt as late as 1926.[19] The portion from Auburn to Skaneateles was brought up to state highway standards c. 1930[24][25] while the section connecting LaFayette (US 11) to Pompey (NY 91) was built by the following year.[25][26] The last section of the Skaneateles–Cazenovia segment to open was the piece between Pompey and Cazenovia, which opened to traffic in mid-September 1934.[46] Meanwhile, the highway was brought up to standards from Alexander to Bethany c. 1934,[47][48] from Bethany to Pavilion (NY 19) c. 1935,[29][48] between Pavilion and NY 36 c. 1936,[29][49] and from NY 36 to Avon c. 1937.[49][50]
The now-complete US 20 was the major thoroughfare across New York for several decades. During the early days, there were no motels around and only major cities—such as Auburn and Albany—had hotels. Around the late 1940s, automobiles became much more reliable and US 20 grew into a strong touring road. The road was one of the most traveled up until the
Major intersections
County | Location | mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes | |||
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Town of Ripley | 0.00 | 0.00 | US 20 west – North East | Pennsylvania state line | ||||
1.42 | 2.29 | Shortman Road ( I-90 / New York Thruway | Southern terminus of unsigned NY 950D | |||||
3.11 | 5.01 | Hamlet of Ripley | ||||||
I-90 / New York Thruway | ||||||||
Sheridan | 29.66 | 47.73 | NY 39 east – Forestville | Western terminus of NY 39 | ||||
US 20 Truck east | Western terminus of NY 5 concurrency; western terminus of US 20 Truck | |||||||
I-90 / New York Thruway | Exit 58 (I-90 / Thruway); hamlet of Irving | |||||||
Traffic circle ; eastern terminus of NY 5 concurrency; eastern terminus of NY 438 | ||||||||
44.02 | 70.84 | NY 249 | ||||||
61.18 | 98.46 | |||||||
61.96 | 99.71 | US 20A east (Big Tree Road) | Western terminus of US 20A; hamlet of Big Tree | |||||
Town of Orchard Park | 64.96 | 104.54 | NY 179 west / CR 460 east (Mile Strip Road) | Eastern terminus of NY 179; western terminus of CR 460 | ||||
65.65 | 105.65 | NY 240 / NY 277 (Orchard Park Road) / Lake Avenue | ||||||
West Seneca | 68.85 | 110.80 | NY 187 south (Transit Road) | Northern terminus of NY 187 | ||||
Elma town line | 69.75 | 112.25 | NY 16 / NY 78 south (Seneca Street) | Western terminus of NY 78 concurrency | ||||
70.25 | 113.06 | NY 400 – East Aurora, Buffalo | Interchange | |||||
72.04 | 115.94 | NY 354 (Clinton Street) | ||||||
Depew | 74.94 | 120.60 | NY 78 north (Transit Road) / NY 130 west (Broadway) – Amtrak | Eastern terminus of NY 78 concurrency; eastern terminus of NY 130 | ||||
I-90 Toll / New York Thruway – Corfu | Hamlet of Darien Center | |||||||
92.80 | 149.35 | Darien | ||||||
Partial cloverleaf interchange | ||||||||
109.80 | 176.71 | LeRoy | Partial cloverleaf interchange | |||||
Town of York | 116.92 | 188.16 | NY 36 (Main Street) | |||||
Town of Caledonia | 122.90 | 197.79 | NY 5 west – Caledonia, Mumford | Western terminus of NY 5 concurrency | ||||
Village of Avon | 123.80 | 199.24 | NY 39 west – Geneseo | Eastern terminus of NY 39 | ||||
Town of Avon | 126.07 | 202.89 | NY 15 | Hamlet of East Avon | ||||
126.68 | 203.87 | Exit 10 (I-390) | ||||||
Village of Lima | 131.04 | 210.89 | NY 15A (Lake Avenue) | |||||
CR 37 south | Southern terminus of NY 65 | |||||||
East Bloomfield | 139.72 | 224.86 | NY 64 north – Mendon | Western terminus of NY 64 concurrency | ||||
141.53 | 227.77 | NY 444 north – Downtown Bloomfield | Southern terminus of NY 444 | |||||
142.79 | 229.80 | Eastern terminus of NY 64 concurrency; eastern terminus of US 20A | ||||||
Town of Canandaigua | 147.60 | 237.54 | NY 21 south – Naples | Western terminus of NY 21 concurrency | ||||
NY 942T) – Business District, Resort Area | Eastern terminus of NY 21 concurrency; southern terminus of NY 332; NY 942T is former routing of US 20 | |||||||
Town of Canandaigua | 150.47 | 242.16 | NY 364 south – Resort Area, CMAC | Northern terminus of NY 364 | ||||
Hopewell | 152.53 | 245.47 | NY 247 south – CMAC | Northern terminus of NY 247 | ||||
Town of Geneva | 162.83 | 262.05 | NY 14A south / NY 245 south – Penn Yan, Naples | Northern terminus of NY 245 and NY 14A | ||||
NY 14 Truck south – Watkins Glen | Partial cloverleaf interchange; western terminus of NY 14 Truck concurrency | |||||||
NY 14 Truck north (Lake Street) – Geneva | Eastern terminus of NY 14 Truck concurrency | |||||||
Town of Waterloo | 167.08 | 268.89 | NY 96A south / Sessler Drive – Ovid, Ithaca | Hamlet of East Geneva; northern terminus of NY 96A | ||||
Village of Waterloo | 171.78 | 276.45 | NY 96 | |||||
I-90 Toll / New York Thruway – Clyde | Western terminus of NY 414 concurrency | |||||||
175.43 | 282.33 | NY 414 south (Ovid Street) | Eastern terminus of NY 414 concurrency; hamlet of Seneca Falls | |||||
178.48 | 287.24 | I-90 / New York Thruway – Del Lago | Eastern terminus of NY 318 | |||||
Seneca Falls–Tyre town line | 178.58 | 287.40 | NY 89 – Ithaca, Savannah | |||||
Cayuga | Montezuma | 180.53 | 290.53 | NY 90 – Montezuma, Cayuga | ||||
Aurelius | 188.63 | 303.57 | NY 326 west – Union Springs | Eastern terminus of NY 326 | ||||
Auburn | 190.01 | 305.79 | NY 38 north (State Street) – Port Byron, Auburn Correctional Facility | Western terminus of NY 38 concurrency | ||||
190.18 | 306.07 | Eastern terminus of NY 38 concurrency | ||||||
190.47 | 306.53 | NY 5 east / NY 38A – Weedsport | Eastern terminus of NY 5 concurrency; northern terminus of NY 38A | |||||
190.58 | 306.71 | NY 38A south – Owasco | Eastern terminus of NY 38A concurrency | |||||
Onondaga | Village of Skaneateles | 196.97 | 316.99 | NY 41A south (Kane Avenue) | Northern terminus of NY 41A | |||
197.44 | 317.75 | NY 321 north – Camillus | Southern terminus of NY 321 | |||||
198.08 | 318.78 | NY 41 south – Homer, Cortland | Northern terminus of NY 41 | |||||
Town of Skaneateles | 199.27 | 320.69 | NY 175 east – Marcellus, Syracuse | Western terminus of NY 175 | ||||
Town of Marcellus | 202.45 | 325.81 | NY 174 south – Otisco Lake | Western terminus of NY 174 concurrency | ||||
202.78 | 326.34 | NY 174 north – Marcellus | Eastern terminus of NY 174 concurrency | |||||
Onondaga | 208.60 | 335.71 | NY 80 (Lords Hill Road) | |||||
LaFayette | 212.80 | 342.47 | To NY 11A – Cardiff | Access via Field Lane; hamlet of Cardiff | ||||
214.46 | 345.14 | I-81 south – Binghamton | Exit 15 (I-81) | |||||
214.78 | 345.65 | I-81 north – Syracuse | ||||||
Pompey | 220.74 | 355.25 | NY 91 – Jamesville, Fabius | |||||
Town of Cazenovia | 229.20 | 368.86 | NY 92 west (Syracuse Road) – Manlius, Syracuse | Eastern terminus of NY 92 | ||||
Village of Cazenovia | 229.87 | 369.94 | NY 13 south (Rippleton Road) – DeRuyter | Western terminus of NY 13 concurrency | ||||
230.46 | 370.89 | I-90 / New York Thruway – Chittenango | Eastern terminus of NY 13 concurrency | |||||
Eaton | 245.02 | 394.32 | NY 46 north (Bear Path Road) – Munnsville, Oneida | Western terminus of NY 46 concurrency | ||||
245.23 | 394.66 | NY 46 south – Hamilton | Eastern terminus of NY 46 concurrency | |||||
245.79 | 395.56 | NY 26 south (Fargo Road) – Georgetown | Western terminus of NY 26 concurrency | |||||
Town of Madison | 247.44 | 398.22 | NY 12B south – Hamilton | Western terminus of NY 12B concurrency | ||||
250.44 | 403.04 | NY 12B north / NY 26 north – Oriskany Falls | Eastern terminus of NY 12B / NY 26 concurrency | |||||
Oneida | Sangerfield | 255.89 | 411.82 | NY 12 – Sherburne, Waterville, Utica | ||||
Hamlet of Bridgewater | ||||||||
NY 413 | ||||||||
Herkimer |
No major junctions | |||||||
Oneida |
No major junctions | |||||||
Herkimer | West Winfield | 266.63 | 429.10 | NY 51 south (South Street) | Western terminus of NY 51 concurrency | |||
Town of Winfield | 269.47 | 433.67 | NY 51 north – Ilion | Eastern terminus of NY 51 concurrency | ||||
I-90 / New York Thruway – Mohawk | Western terminus of NY 28 concurrency | |||||||
Richfield Springs | 277.36 | 446.37 | NY 28 south (Prospect Street) to I-88 – Cooperstown | Eastern terminus of concurrency NY 28 | ||||
277.77 | 447.03 | NY 167 north (Church Street) – Little Falls | Southern terminus of NY 167 | |||||
Herkimer |
No major junctions | |||||||
Otsego | Springfield | 283.78 | 456.70 | NY 80 – Cooperstown, Fort Plain | Hamlet of Springfield Center | |||
CR 31 – Glimmerglass State Park | ||||||||
Town of Cherry Valley | 290.98 | 468.29 | NY 166 south – Cherry Valley | Partial cloverleaf interchange; northern terminus of NY 166 | ||||
Sharon | 302.35 | 486.59 | NY 145 south – Cobleskill | Northern terminus of NY 145 | ||||
Southern terminus of NY 162; hamlet of Sloansville | ||||||||
320.18 | 515.28 | NY 395 south – Delanson | Northern terminus of NY 395 | |||||
322.88 | 519.62 | NY 7 – Schenectady, Cobleskill | Hamlet of Duanesburg | |||||
323.95 | 521.35 | Exit 24 (I-88); ramps are on shared access road between US 20 and NY 7 | ||||||
Princetown | 327.30 | 526.74 | NY 406 east (Gifford Church Road) – Schenectady | Western terminus of NY 406 | ||||
Town of Guilderland | 329.23 | 529.84 | NY 397 south (Dunnsville Road) – Altamont | Northern terminus of NY 397 | ||||
330.73 | 532.26 | NY 158 – Altamont, Schenectady | ||||||
333.81 | 537.22 | I-890 – Schenectady | Western terminus of concurrency with NY 146 | |||||
334.49 | 538.31 | NY 146 west – Altamont | Eastern terminus of concurrency with NY 146 | |||||
336.40 | 541.38 | NY 155 (State Farm Road / New Karner Road) – Voorheesville, Colonie | Hamlet of Westmere | |||||
338.88 | 545.37 | To NY 910F; hamlet of McKownville | ||||||
Albany | 340.87 | 548.58 | NY 85 (Crosstown Arterial) | Access via local roads | ||||
343.34 | 552.55 | US 9W / NY 443 west (Lark Street / Delaware Avenue) | Eastern terminus of NY 443 | |||||
344.04 | 553.68 | Grand Street (NY 912G) | Southern terminus of unsigned NY 912G | |||||
344.14 | 553.84 | I-787 / I-87 Toll / New York Thruway | Southern terminus of concurrency with NY 32 | |||||
344.22 | 553.97 | NY 32 north (South Pearl Street) | Northern terminus of concurrency with NY 32 | |||||
344.41 | 554.27 | NY 913V) – Empire State Plaza | Interchange | |||||
344.58 | 554.55 | Western terminus of concurrency with US 9 | ||||||
Hudson River | Dunn Memorial Bridge | |||||||
Rensselaer | Rensselaer | 345.17 | 555.50 | NY 151 east – 3rd Avenue Extension, Broadway, Albany–Rensselaer station | ||||
345.75 | 556.43 | To NY 9J south – Castleton | Grade-separated interchange; northern terminus of NY 9J | |||||
Town of East Greenbush | 348.54 | 560.92 | US 4 north – Troy | Southern terminus of US 4; hamlet of East Greenbush | ||||
NY 912F ) | To I-90 exit 10; eastern terminus of unsigned NY 912F | |||||||
351.72 | 566.04 | Exit 11 (I-90) | ||||||
352.23 | 566.86 | NY 150 – Castleton, East Schodack, West Sand Lake | Hamlet of Schodack Center | |||||
352.60 | 567.45 | US 9 south – Hudson | Eastern terminus of concurrency with US 9 | |||||
Village of Nassau | 356.71 | 574.07 | NY 203 south – Chatham | Northern terminus of NY 203 | ||||
Town of Nassau | 361.17 | 581.25 | NY 66 south – Chatham | Western terminus of concurrency with NY 66 | ||||
East Nassau | 362.92 | 584.06 | NY 66 north – East Nassau, Averill Park | Eastern terminus of concurrency with NY 66 | ||||
New Lebanon | ||||||||
370.32 | 595.97 | Lebanon Springs | ||||||
372.32 | 599.19 | US 20 east – Pittsfield | Continuation into Massachusetts | |||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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Suffixed routes
US 20 has had seven suffixed routes in New York; one
- US 20A (83.59 mi or 134.53 km) is an alternate route of US 20 between Hamburg, Erie County, and East Bloomfield, Ontario County.[1] It was assigned c. 1939.[32][33]
- The NY 20A designation has been used for two distinct highways:
- The first NY 20A was an alternate route of US 20 between the Pennsylvania state line at Ripley and Silver Creek in Chautauqua County. It was assigned as part of the 1930 state highway renumbering[25] and supplanted by NY 5 c. 1932.[26][27]
- The
- The
- NY 20B was an alternate route of US 20 between
- NY 20C was a loop route connecting US 20 to the then-village of Holcomb (now part of Bloomfield) in Ontario County. The route was assigned c. 1931[25][26] and partially replaced by NY 444 in 1997.[6]
- NY 20N was an alternate route of US 20 between Marcellus, Onondaga County, and Cazenovia, Madison County. The route overlapped other, preexisting routes for its entire length. It was assigned c. 1938[31][54] and removed c. 1962, leaving just the routes it overlapped.[43][55]
- NY 20SY was an alternate route of US 20 between Skaneateles and Cazenovia in Onondaga and Madison counties. Like NY 20N, NY 20SY was concurrent with other, preexisting routes for most of its length. It was assigned in the early 1950s[56][57] and removed c. 1962, leaving just the routes it overlapped.[43][55]
US 20 Truck
Location | Silver Creek |
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U.S. Route 20 Truck (US 20 Truck) is a short
In the village of Silver Creek, commercial truck traffic is not allowed to use US 20 east unless said traffic is making deliveries to local businesses in either the village or the South Dayton, Perrysburg, and Cherry Creek areas southeast of Silver Creek. All other commercial truck traffic per New York state vehicle and traffic laws must use US 20 Truck through the village.
See also
References
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- ^ "Albany County Inventory Listing" (CSV). New York State Department of Transportation. March 2, 2010. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
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- ^ 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.
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Road Map of New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. Standard Oil Company of New York. 1930.
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- ^ Road Map of New York (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. Texas Oil Company. 1934.
- ^ Sun Oil Company. 1935.
- Standard Oil Company. 1931.
- ^ a b c New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. Standard Oil Company. 1937.
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- Exxon. 1979.
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- ^ New York State Legislature. "New York State Highway Law § 341". Retrieved December 10, 2010.
- ^ "2007 Traffic Data Report for New York State" (PDF). New York State Department of Transportation. July 25, 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 12, 2012. Retrieved March 3, 2008.
- ^ New York State Department of Transportation (October 2007). Official Description of Highway Touring Routes, Bicycling Touring Routes, Scenic Byways, & Commemorative/Memorial Designations in New York State.
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- ^ New York (Map) (1969–70 ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1968.
- ^ Geneva North Digital Raster Quadrangle (Map). 1:24,000. New York State Department of Transportation. 2000. Retrieved December 26, 2009.
- ^ Paine, Paul M. (September 30, 1934). "N.Y. Scenic Road Open". The New York Times. p. XX10.
- ^ Texaco Road Map – New York (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. Texas Oil Company. 1933.
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- ^ Shell Oil Company. 1936.
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External links
- U.S. Route 20 at Alps' Roads • New York Routes