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 (United States), county highway departm ...
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. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the county's population is 338,329, making it the state' ...
, 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 example CR 80 is congers road in new city and congers. 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There are 63 current routes and seven routes no longer maintained by the county, making for a total of 70 routes.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 . The shortest route is CR 118A in
Stony Point at long. There are also two routes that cross into
Orange County and keep the same number from Rockland:
CR 106 in
Tuxedo
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and
CR 72 in
Sloatsburg. 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
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