Rhinebeck NY to Liberty Harbor Marina & RV Park

Second thoughts: just tried the route on my builtin GPS and it comes up with the following - I 87 to I 287 to GSP to I 80 to I 95 to rt 495 to US 19 to I 78 to local streets to the Park.

This seems to get closer to the park before hitting surface streets.

I will be following this route tomorrow unless someone pops in in the next 18 hours with a better alternative.

Looking forward to comments.

If it were me I would be looking for a route that was not as difficult (changinging roads all the time) and witth less traffic. Route 1 & 9 which I think you kave labeled as 19 is no fun at all.

My suggestion is once on the GSP stay on it until I-78. No commercial vehicles are allowed on the GSP. Although the route is a bit longer it will probably take less time.

If you go on the Garden State Parkway you HAVE to stay in the middle lanes because of low bridge clearances on the outer lanes. If not, you will take your AC units off the roof when you pass under a bridge.

Thank you Alfred and gcloss. I found out the hard way that my route was way to complicated. I can't even describe the actual route we took following our gps. But we did get here unmarked. The roads are crazy and the gps seems to miss some of the nuances. There are more lanes than it reports or it isn't clear which"slight right" it means. Ah well we will survive and the coach will stay parked until we have to find our way to the south in a week.

xctraveler,

What route do you have planned for your escape from NJ? I might be able to give you something a little less challenging as you are still in a location that can give you many poor choices in which to travel. There are lots of roads in NJ... there are the good, the bad and the ugly. Many were blazed before the USA existed and have not really been improved much since.

alfredmay wrote:
xctraveler,
There are lots of roads in NJ... there are the good, the bad and the ugly. Many were blazed before the USA existed and have not really been improved much since.

Truer words were never spake, to put it mildly. We had a rough winter, and Christie used all the fed money to rebuild the food stands along the boardwalk in Asbury Park.

My current intended route is to go to the Elk Lodge in Cherry Hill and thence down to Baltimore. Or in other words, we are leaping from the frying pan into the fire. Even more likely from insanity to insanity. Once we leave Baltimore (Pikesville actually) we may just escape to the comfort of a mountain dirt road south of Charlottesville VA. At least there is only one route, hard to take a wrong turn, not impossible but hard.

I will vouch for the antiquity of the NJ roads. Some seem to wander about with very little purpose, like 202. Even the NJP seems to take on various different Interstate numbers, like a chameleon. The NY Thruway limits itself to just a couple - I 90 and I 87. I know one could quibble and claim that I290 in the Niagara region is also a NY Thruway section.

US Route 202 was blazed long before George Washington used it. It was most likely first used by the Delaware Indians. It is a spur road from US Route 2 that goes from Maine to the West Coast. Part of it passes within 10 miles of my NJ home.

To get to Cherry Hill the quick way is obvious.... I-78 to the NJ Turnpike. If you are looking for something more scenic, but longer I can give you some suggestions.

As for Baltimore..... are you aware of the propane restrictions on I-95 in that area? Would you like a more scenic route than I-95 to get there?

XCTrav, are you referring to the "Cherry Hill" that is a suburb of Philly, just across the river and containing pretty much NOTHING whatsoever to recommend it?

JimFromJersey wrote:
XCTrav, are you referring to the "Cherry Hill" that is a suburb of Philly, just across the river and containing pretty much NOTHING whatsoever to recommend it?

No! Cherry Hill CG in College Park MD.

We just left the Elks Lodge in Marlton NJ. It has less than nothing to recommend it other than we were meeting friends there to go to dinner, elsewhere.