Bear Mountain State Parkway

Bear Mountain State Parkway

Bear Mountain State Parkway marker

Bear Mountain State Parkway
Route information
Length: 4.58 mi[1] (7.37 km)
Existed: 1932[citation needed] – present
Major junctions
West end: US 6 / US 9 / US 202 in Peekskill
  US 6 in Peekskill
East end: NY 35 / US 202 in Cortlandt
Location
Counties: Westchester
Highway system

Numbered highways in New York
Interstate • U.S. • N.Y. (former) • Reference • County

The Bear Mountain State Parkway is a part of the New York State highway system. It was built in 1932 but, unlike most other parkways in Westchester County, New York, it has barely been constructed upon since. It currently stands as an incomplete highway, with a western portion of 3.85 miles (6.20 km) and an eastern section of about 0.73 miles (1.17 km). Crompond Road (US 202/NY 35) provides a connection between the two segments. The parkway is designated New York State Route 987H, an unsigned reference route. However, some old maps show the two segments as New York State Route 821.

The initial reason for the Bear Mountain Parkway was to connect the Taconic State Parkway (or then, the Bronx River Parkway Extension) to the Bear Mountain Bridge. At that time, the Tappan Zee Bridge had not been constructed, and the Bear Mountain Bridge was an extremely important crossing of the Hudson River for Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, and Orange County residents. Today, due to the popularity of the Tappan Zee, and the traffic issues caused by the two-lane roads descending to the Bear Mountain Bridge, the bridge is not a popular Hudson River crossing, and consequently, the Bear Mountain Parkway was never finished. Talks of its completion resurfaced in 2000, but because the Yorktown area is much more populated than it was in the 1930s, its completion seems nearly impossible.

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Route description

The parkway begins at an intersection with U.S. Route 6, U.S. Route 9 and U.S. Route 202 south of Annsville Creek in Peekskill and proceeds eastward through the north side of Peekskill as a two-lane undivided roadway. During its first mile, the parkway intersects a street at-grade and interchanges with Highland Avenue before widening to four undivided lanes at an interchange with North Division Street. The parkway intersects another street at-grade prior to entering Cortlandt.

In Cortlandt, the parkway interchanges with US 6 and meets several surface roads ahead of an intersection with US 202 and NY 35. Here, the Bear Mountain Parkway merges with the two-lane US 202 and NY 35, creating a physical concurrency extending eastward into neighboring Yorktown. Roughly one mile from the town line, the parkway separates from US 202/NY 35 and progresses to the northeast as a four-lane undivided roadway. After a short distance, the parkway becomes separated by a median prior to merging with the southbound Taconic State Parkway. The northbound Taconic is accessed by way of US 202/NY 35.

NY 987H, the internal NYSDOT designation for the parkway, terminates at both ends of the physical overlap with US 202/NY 35 and applies only to the segments of the road separate from US 202/NY 35.

History

Originally proposed by Robert Moses, the Bear Mountain State Parkway was built between 1929 and 1932 by the Westchester County Parks Commission as part of an extension to the Bronx River Parkway.[citation needed] It was intended to provide a quick, scenic trip from the Bronx to the Bear Mountain Bridge and Harriman State Park. At that time it was known as the Bronx River Parkway Extension.[citation needed]

In 1941 the Taconic State Park Commission assumed control of the Bronx River extension, and then combined the section between the Bronx River Parkway and the, as it was known then, Eastern State Parkway to create the Taconic State Parkway. The section between the Taconic and Annsville then received the name of Bear Mountain State Parkway.[2]

In 2000, there was an initiative to complete the final missing piece of the Bear Mountain Parkway.[3] Although, most if not all the right-of-way, has already been acquired, the issue not overcome was whether to allow trucks on the parkway.

Major intersections

The entire route is in Westchester County.

Location Mile[1] Destinations Notes
Peekskill 0.00 US 6 / US 9 / US 202
Highland Avenue Interchange
North Division Street Interchange
Cortlandt 2.94 US 6 Interchange
3.85 US 202 / NY 35
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

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