traveling to Long Island N.Y.

Previous post was absolutely right about avoiding rush hours and needing mucho dolores for tolls! EZ Pass is a great idea. Do everything you can to avoid the George Washington Bridge! No way I would ever even attempt to drive an RV over it! Maybe at 3AM! There are numerous roadways in the area RVs are not allowed due to very low clearances. Belt Parkway, for instance,RV's not allowed. Also not allowed on Southern Parkway/Southern State Parkway for the same reasons. Robert Moses Causeway - ditto. Don't know where you are on the Eastern Shore, but you could get to the Cape-May Lewes Ferry, pick up the Garden State Parkway in NJ and take it to the NJ Twpk. OR Looked at Good Sam's Trip Routing and they suggested this: Cross into Jersey on Del. Mem Bridge, then take NJ Tpk North (I95) to I 278 (Staten Island Expressway) to Verrazanno's Narrows Bridge. From there, it gets dicey. The Belt Parkway is most direct, but no RV's (and believe it when you're told the lanes are very, very narrow!) Could take SIE (I278) that turns into the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway [BQE] (Still I 278) to the Long Island Expressway [LIE] Which is I 495. This will take you east onto the rest of Long Island. You can take that to Veteran's Memorial Highway (Rt 454) That hooks up to the Sunrise Highway (rt 27). Out here there are no restrictions on RV's on the roadway - I think! You can then go to Montawk Highway (Rt 39) to Rt 79 (Bridgehampton/Sag Harbor Turnpike). Honestly, there is no good way to get there! Expect traffic to be awful always, and as previously posted, AVOID ANY OF THESE ROADS ANYWHERE NEAR MORNING OR EVENING RUSH HOURS! I must say I have never made this trip and this info is only from my Good Sam trip planning pages. The whole North Jersey/NYC highway maze is overwhelming, to say the least. Far too many vehicles, far too few decent roads. The infrastructure is horribly overmatched by the numbers of people who need to rely on it every day. Have never driven in LA, but of all the cities we have ever visited, from Chicago to Atlanta, to Boston, Philly or Washington DC, must say driving in the NYC area is by far the worst. And for decades we lived only about 80 miles south along the Jersey Shore. Whenever we went to 'the City', we took public transportation if possible. We once drove to NYC when it took us over 3 hours to cross into Manhattan on the GWB!!! Best of luck in your journey. Leave yourselves plenty of extra time and be ready to sit in traffic! Those have been our experiences!