U.S. Route 11 in New York

U.S. Route 11
Length:	318.66 mi[1] (512.83 km)
Formed:	1926[2]
South end:	US 11 at Pennsylvania state line south of Binghamton
Major junctions:	I-81 to I-86 / NY 17 in Binghamton NY 13 / NY 41 in Cortland NY 5 in Syracuse NY 3 / NY 12 in Watertown NY 56 in Potsdam NY 30 in Malone I-87 near Champlain
North end:	Route 223 at Canadian border at Rouses Point
Counties:	Broome, Cortland, Onondaga, Oswego, Jefferson, St. Lawrence, Franklin, Clinton
Numbered highways in New York < NY 10 NY 11A > Interstate – U.S. – N.Y. (former) – Reference United States Numbered Highways List – Bannered – Divided – Replaced

U.S. Route 11 is a part of the U.S. Highway System that runs from New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Canadian border at Rouses Point, New York. In the state of New York, US 11 extends for 318.66 miles (512.83 km) from the Pennsylvania state line south of the Southern Tier city of Binghamton to the Canadian border at the North Country village of Rouses Point, where it becomes Route 223 upon entering Quebec. The portion of US 11 south of Watertown follows a mostly north–south alignment and is paralleled by Interstate 81 while the part of the route east of Watertown follows a more east–west routing.

The portion of US 11 in New York passes through the central district of four cities: Binghamton, Cortland, Syracuse, and Watertown. East of Watertown, the route traverses mostly rural terrain and serves only small villages, such as Potsdam, Malone, and Champlain. While the portion of US 11 between the Pennsylvania state line and Watertown is merely an alternate route to I-81, the section east of Watertown is the primary long-distance route across the North Country of New York.

US 11 was designated as part of the 1926 establishment of the U.S. Highway System. It was first signed in New York in 1927, replacing New York State Route 2, a route assigned three years earlier as part of the creation of the modern New York state route system. The termini of US 11 have more or less remained the same since; however, multiple realignments have occurred along the points in between. One of US 11's three suffixed routes, NY 11C, follows a former routing of US 11.

Route description

US 11 joins two New York State routes as it passes through downtown Cortland.

US 11 proceeds northwestward through New York from the Pennsylvania border to Binghamton. US 11 and I-81 continue to parallel each other as they head north from Binghamton toward Syracuse, passing through Cortland in the process.

The route traverses the Onondaga Indian Reservation just south of the city --- where it intersects US 20 in LaFayette --- before entering the suburbs of Syracuse. US 11 continues northward, passing through downtown and crossing I-81, Interstate 690 and the New York State Thruway (Interstate 90) before meeting I-81 at exit 26 north of downtown and west of the Syracuse Hancock International Airport.

North of Syracuse, US 11 and I-81 continue to parallel each other northward through Central New York and, from Pulaski. In Watertown, US 11 and I-81 separate just south of the city, with US 11 taking a more north-easterly routing than I-81, which continues to parallel Lake Ontario northward to the Canadian border. US 11 heads northeast from Watertown, passing along the northern edge of the Fort Drum Military Reservation and traversing a number of towns and villages, including Canton and Potsdam.

Heading east now from Potsdam are routes 11B and US 11, with 11B taking the southern route and 11 the northern route, joining back up in Malone. NY 11C was built to bypass Brasher Falls and Winthrop, and they swapped names in the 1990s. US 11 passes north of Adirondack Park and through several communities, including Malone, on the park's edge. In Champlain, US 11 connects to Interstate 87 at exit 42 and meets U.S. Route 9 a half-mile to the east.

Four miles east of Champlain in Rouses Point, US 11 intersects New York State Route 9B on the western shore of Lake Champlain. US 11 turns north at the junction, following the routing established by NY 9B to the south into the heart of Rouses Point. North of the village center, US 11 intersects the western terminus of the eastern segment of U.S. Route 2. After another three-quarters of a mile, US 11 terminates at the Canada – United States border, becoming QC 223.

History

In 1924, the state of New York created the modern New York state route system by assigning designations to several long-distance highways. One route assigned at this time was NY 2, which extended from the Pennsylvania state line south of Binghamton to the Canadian border at Rouses Point by way of Syracuse and Watertown.^[3] When the Joint Board on Interstate Highways laid out the initial plans for the U.S. Highway System in October 1925, NY 2 was included as part of US 11, a route beginning in New Orleans, Louisiana, and ending at Rouses Point.^[4] The alignment of US 11 within New York was virtually unchanged in the final system alignment approved on November 11, 1926.^[2] The US 11 designation was first signed in 1927, supplanting NY 2.^[5]

Since 1927, the termini of US 11 have more or less remained the same. However, multiple realignments have occurred over the years along the points in between. In the vicinity of Champlain, US 11 initially entered the village on Perry Mills Road and followed Main and Elm Streets through the village.^[6] Ca. 1962, US 11 was realigned to follow a direct east–west highway between the hamlet of Twin Bridges (the modern junction of US 11 and Perry Mills Road) and the village of Champlain. Within Champlain, US 11 was routed on South, Main, and Elm Streets.^[7][8] The highway was realigned again in the early 1970s to follow a new highway to the south of Champlain, bypassing the village completely.^[9][10]

In northeastern St. Lawrence County, US 11 originally served the neighboring hamlets of Brasher Falls and Winthrop. The route left its modern alignment in Stockholm (at Stockholm Center) and rejoined it in Lawrence (at Coteys Corner).^[6] On September 1, 1982, ownership and maintenance of County Route 110, a county road extending from Stockholm Center to Coteys Corner on a direct east–west routing, was transferred from St. Lawrence County to the state of New York as part of a highway maintenance swap between the two levels of government and the village of Canton.^[11][12][13] The new state highway was initially designated as NY 11C.^[14] On June 13, 1992, the alignments of US 11 and NY 11C between Stockholm Center and Coteys Corner were swapped, placing both routes on their modern alignments.^[15][16]

Suffixed routes

US 11 has three suffixed routes, all of which serve as alternate routes to US 11.

• NY 11A (13.11 miles (21.10 km)) runs to the west of US 11 between Tully and Onondaga. It serves as the primary north–south highway through the Onondaga Indian Reservation.^[1]
• NY 11B (36.98 miles (59.51 km)) extends from Potsdam to Malone along a routing situated south of US 11.^[1]
• NY 11C (11.44 miles (18.41 km)) is a northerly alternate to US 11 between Stockholm and Lawrence. While US 11 follows a direct routing through the two towns, NY 11C veers north to serve Brasher Falls and Winthrop, two small hamlets on the banks of the St. Regis River.^[1]

Major intersections

County	Location	Mile[1]	Roads intersected	Notes
Broome	Kirkwood	0.00	US 11	Continuation into Pennsylvania
		7.48	I-81 / I-86 east / NY 17	Exit 2 (I-81); southbound US 11 only
	City of Binghamton	11.73	NY 7
			NY 363	Interchange
		12.59	NY 434	Eastern terminus of NY 434
		12.83	NY 17C	Eastern terminus of NY 17C
	Dickinson	14.73	I-81	Exit 5 (I-81)
	Chenango	17.37	I-81 south	Exit 6 (I-81)
		17.49	NY 12	Southern terminus of NY 12
		17.72	I-81 north	Exit 6 (I-81)
		22.90	I-81	Exit 7 (I-81)
	Whitney Point	30.46	NY 26 south	Southern terminus of US 11 / NY 26 overlap
		30.55	NY 26 north / NY 79 east	Northern terminus of US 11 / NY 26 overlap; southern terminus of US 11 / NY 79 overlap
	Town of Lisle	31.48	I-81 north	Exit 8 (I-81)
		32.76	NY 79 west	Northern terminus of US 11 / NY 79 overlap
Cortland	Village of Marathon	39.59	NY 221
	Virgil	43.69	NY 392	Eastern terminus of NY 392
	Cortlandville	51.29	I-81 south	Exit 10 (I-81)
		51.51	NY 41 south	Southern terminus of US 11 / NY 41 overlap
	Cortland	53.84	NY 13 south	Southern terminus of US 11 / NY 13 overlap
		54.15	NY 13 north NY 222	Northern terminus of US 11 / NY 13 overlap; eastern terminus of NY 222
	Cortlandville	56.17	I-81 via NY 930Q	Exit 12 (I-81)
	Village of Homer	56.78	NY 90	Southern terminus of NY 90
		57.07	NY 41 north	Northern terminus of US 11 / NY 41 overlap
Onondaga	Village of Tully	68.76	NY 80 east	Eastern terminus of US 11 / NY 80 overlap
	Town of Tully	69.41	NY 80 west NY 281	Western terminus of US 11 / NY 80 overlap; northern terminus of NY 281
		70.04	I-81 north	Exit 14 (I-81)
	LaFayette	76.09	US 20
	Onondaga	81.14	I-81	Exit 16 (I-81)
		81.97	NY 11A	Northern terminus of NY 11A
	Syracuse	84.06	NY 173
		85.17	I-81	Exit 17 (I-81)
		86.18	NY 175	Eastern terminus of NY 175
		87.51	NY 92	Western terminus of NY 92
		87.70	NY 5
		87.89	NY 290	Western terminus of NY 290
		89.01	NY 298
		89.45	NY 370	Eastern terminus of NY 370
	Salina	92.53	I-81	Exit 26 (I-81)
	North Syracuse	95.30	NY 481	Exit 10 (NY 481)
	Cicero	97.27	NY 31
Oswego	Central Square	105.18	NY 49
	Hastings	112.21	NY 69A	Southern terminus of NY 69A
	Town of Mexico	114.48	NY 69
		117.13	NY 104
	Pulaski	124.47	NY 13
Jefferson	Town of Ellisburg	133.46	I-81	Exit 38 (I-81)
		137.25	NY 193	Eastern terminus of NY 193
	Village of Adams	142.86	NY 178	Eastern terminus of NY 178
	Town of Adams	146.54	NY 177
		148.57	I-81 via NY 971P	Exit 43 (I-81)
	Town of Watertown	152.83	NY 232	Northern terminus of NY 232
	City of Watertown	156.42	NY 3 south / NY 12	Northbound intersection; western terminus of US 11 north / NY 3 east and US 11 north / NY 12 south overlaps
		156.53	NY 3 east / NY 12 south NY 283	Northbound intersection; eastern terminus of US 11 north / NY 3 east and US 11 north / NY 12 south overlaps; southern terminus of US 11 north / NY 12 north overlap; western terminus of NY 283
			NY 12F	Southbound intersection; eastern terminus of NY 12F
		156.88	NY 12 north	Northbound intersection; northern terminus of US 11 north / NY 12 north overlap
	Pamelia	158.48	NY 37	Western terminus of NY 37
	Le Ray	162.35	NY 342
		163.79	Memorial Drive (NY 971Q)	Access to Fort Drum; future site of interchange with I-781
		166.79	NY 26 south	Southern terminus of US 11 / NY 26 overlap
	Village of Philadelphia	173.84	NY 26 north	Northern terminus of US 11 / NY 26 overlap
St. Lawrence	Village of Gouverneur	191.59	NY 58 / NY 812 south	Southern terminus of US 11 / NY 812 overlap
	De Kalb	203.02	NY 812 north	Northern terminus of US 11 / NY 812 overlap
	Village of Canton	215.43	NY 68 west	Western terminus of US 11 / NY 68 overlap
	Town of Canton	216.82	NY 68 east NY 310	Eastern terminus of US 11 / NY 68 overlap; southern terminus of NY 310
	Village of Potsdam	226.09	NY 345	Southern terminus of NY 345
		226.64	NY 56 north	Northern terminus of US 11 / NY 56 overlap
		226.81	NY 56 south	Southern terminus of US 11 / NY 56 overlap
		227.07	NY 11B	Western terminus of NY 11B
	Stockholm	237.00	NY 11C	Western terminus of NY 11C
		239.75	NY 420	Southern terminus of NY 420
	Lawrence	245.00	NY 11C	Eastern terminus of NY 11C
		246.19	CR 54	Former northern terminus of NY 195
Franklin	Moira	251.75	NY 95	Southern terminus of NY 95
	Village of Malone	264.61	NY 37 NY 11B / NY 30 south	Western terminus of US 11 / NY 30 overlap; eastern terminus of NY 11B; eastern terminus of NY 37
		265.02	NY 30 north	Eastern terminus of US 11 / NY 30 overlap
	Burke	271.98	NY 122	Eastern terminus of NY 122
	Village of Chateaugay	278.05	NY 374
Clinton	Clinton	286.10	NY 189	Southern terminus of NY 189
	Ellenburg	290.79	NY 190 via NY 971L
	Town of Mooers	305.46	NY 22	Northern terminus of NY 22
	Town of Champlain	311.95	I-87	Exit 42 (I-87)
		312.53	US 9
		314.10	NY 276	Western terminus of NY 276
	Rouses Point	316.70	NY 9B	Northern terminus of NY 9B
		317.55	NY 276	Eastern terminus of NY 276
		317.88	US 2	Western terminus of US 2 (eastern segment)
		318.66	Route 223	Continuation into Quebec

References

External links

• Alps' Roads – U.S. Route 11
• New York Routes – U.S. Route 11
• New York State Highway Termini – U.S. Route 11