County route
A county highway (also county road or county route; usually abbreviated CH or CR) is a road in the United States and in the Canadian province of Ontario that is designated and/or maintained by the county highway department. Route numbering can ...
s in
Rockland County, New York
Rockland County is the southernmost county on the west side of the Hudson River in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of the New York metropolitan area. It is about from the Bronx at their closest points. The county's population, as of t ...
, are maintained by the Rockland County highway department and signed with the
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
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-standard yellow-on-blue pentagon route marker. Most of the routes act as primary roads in the less developed areas and also serve to interconnect the various villages and hamlets of the county. Across the county, routes are numbered such that odd-numbered routes are north–south and increase in number from east to west, while even-numbered routes are east–west and increase from south to north.
There are 63 current routes and seven routes no longer maintained by the county, making for a total of 70 routes. The longest routes are
CR 33,
CR 23, and
CR 80, all at over ten miles (16 km). The shortest route is CR 118A in
Stony Point at long. There are also two routes that cross into
Orange County
Orange County most commonly refers to:
*Orange County, California, part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area
Orange County may also refer to:
U.S. counties
*Orange County, Florida, containing Orlando
*Orange County, Indiana
*Orange County, New ...
and keep the same number from Rockland:
CR 106 in
Tuxedo
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and
CR 72 in
Sloatsburg
Sloatsburg is a village in the town of Ramapo in Rockland County, New York, United States. Located east of Orange County, it is at the southern entrance to Harriman State Park. The population was 3,039 at the 2010 census. The village is named ...
. Also, several routes enter from
New Jersey
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; two of these include
CR 41 in
Chestnut Ridge and
CR 89 in
Airmont. The northernmost route is
CR 118 in
Stony Point and the southernmost is
CR 4 in
Palisades.
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List of routes
See also
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County routes in New York
In the U.S. state of New York, county routes exist in all 62 counties except those in the five boroughs of New York City. Most are maintained locally by county highway departments. County route designations are assigned at the county level; as a re ...
Notes
References
External links
{{Commons category, County routes in Rockland County, New York
Rockland County Routes 1–25Rockland County Routes 26–50Rockland County Routes 51–75Rockland County Routes 76–100Rockland County Routes 101–118Rockland County Maps