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Encyclopedia > Sunken Meadow State Parkway

The Sunken Meadow State Parkway is a six mile north-south parkway on Long Island New York and part of New York State Reference Route 908K--the Sagtikos State Parkway is the other part. Since the highway is part of the New York State Parkway System, commerical vehicles are restricted from using the freeway-standard highway. Image File history File links Sunken_Meadow_Pkwy_Shield. ... Reference Routes are New York State Highways that the New York State Department of Transportation has determined are too minor to have a signed number, or highways that have a signed name (mainly parkways). ... The Sagtikos State Parkway is a 4. ...



Like the Heckscher State Parkway, it originally began as an entrance to the Sunken Meadow State Park and was known as the Sunken Meadow Spur. The diffrence however, was that the Sunken Meadow Spur had two entrances from NY 25A which converged on a bridge over Sunken Meadow Road and a branch of the Nissequogue River. The rest of the Parkway was added onto the west end during the 1950's. The extended section finally opened in 1957. The east end which went through Parking Area #5 was closed to traffic from NY 25A in the 1970's. The Heckscher State Parkway is a 7. ... Sunken Meadow State Park and Sunken Meadow State Park Beach are located in the Town of Smithtown in Suffolk County, New York in the USA on the north shore of Long Island. ... New York State Route 25A is a New York State highway and the main East-West route for most of the North Shore of Long Island, New York running from the Queens-Midtown Tunnel at its Western terminus to Calverton at its Eastern end. ...


Exit list

  • Exit SM1 E-W: Northern State Parkway
  • Exit SM2: (NY 454)Veterans Memorial Highway
  • Exit SM3 E-W: (NY 25)Jericho Turnpike
  • Exit SM3A: (Suffolk CR 14)Indian Head Road
  • Exit SM4 E-W: (Suffolk CR 11)Pulaski Road
  • Exit SM5 E-W: (NY 25A) Fort Salonga Road

The Northern State Parkway is a limited-access parkway that runs for approximately 29 miles west-east across the north shore of New Yorks Long Island. ... New York State Route 25 is a major east-west road running from the Queensboro Bridge on the East River in Queens, New York City to the Orient Point Ferry terminal on the end of the North Fork of Long Island. ... New York State Route 25A is a New York State highway and the main East-West route for most of the North Shore of Long Island, New York running from the Queens-Midtown Tunnel at its Western terminus to Calverton at its Eastern end. ...

Trivia

  • All interchanges are prefixed with the letter "SM" in numeric order from South to North. The only other Long Island Parkway which has its exit numbers from South to North order with a prefix is the Bethpage State Parkway.
  • A Parks Department maintenance yard exists at the foot of the bridge over Sunken Meadow(St. Johnland) Road with driveways to both the Parkway and the road below it. Mapmakers have often mistaken it for an on-off ramp.

The Bethpage State Parkway is part of the parkway system in Long Island, New York, USA. It is unsigned New York State Reference Route 907E. It has been redesignated (formally, but is not usually known as) the Philip B. Healey Memorial Parkway. ... The Sagtikos State Parkway is a 4. ... The Northern State Parkway is a limited-access parkway that runs for approximately 29 miles west-east across the north shore of New Yorks Long Island. ...

External Links

Parkways of Long Island, New York
East-west Northern - Southern - Heckscher - Bay - Ocean - Long Island Motor Parkway
North-south Meadowbrook - Loop - Wantagh - Bethpage - R. Moses Causeway - Sagtikos - Sunken Meadow

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Sunken Meadow State Parkway (242 words)
The Sunken Meadow Parkway continues the route of the Sagtikos Parkway to the North Shore.
As soon as most of the congestion clears at EXIT SM3, one gets the sense that it is not too far from Sunken Meadow State Park: now the parkway shifts from "functional" to "recreational." The concrete "Jersey" barrier begins to give way to a wide grassy median that separates the two roadways.
Sunken Meadow State Parkway shield by Ralph Herman.
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