Everything about The Wantagh State Parkway totally explained
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. It runs north-south providing four lanes worth 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 moves north toward 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.
Route description
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.
History
A formerly proposed extension to
Interstate 495 (the Long Island Expressway) has been on the books since the late-1950's.
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.
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.
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