New York State Route 8

New York State Route 8 marker
New York State Route 8
Map
NY 8 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by NYSDOT
Length207.45 mi[1] (333.86 km)
Existed1930[2]–present
Major junctions
South end Future I-86 / NY 17 in Deposit
Major intersections
North end NY 9N in Hague
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew York
CountiesDelaware, Otsego, Chenango, Madison, Oneida, Herkimer, Hamilton, Warren
Highway system
NY 7B US 9

New York State Route 8 (NY 8) is a 207.45-mile-long (333.86 km) north-south state highway in the central part of New York in the United States. It runs in a southwest-to-northeast direction from the Southern Tier to the northern part of Lake George. The southern terminus of the route is at an interchange with NY 17, where it begins concurrent with NY 10 in the town of Deposit.[3] Its northern terminus is at a junction with NY 9N in the town of Hague. Roughly midway between the two endpoints, NY 8 passes through Utica, where it overlaps NY 5, NY 12, and Interstate 790 (I-790) along one segment of the North–South Arterial.

NY 8 was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York and originally extended north to a ferry across Lake Champlain at Putnam Station, where it connected to Vermont Route F-10 (VT F-10). The route was realigned slightly on its northern end by 1933 to connect to another ferry leading to VT F-9 east of Ticonderoga. By the following year, it was altered again to use the new Champlain Bridge at Crown Point to connect to VT 17. This was made possible by way of a long concurrency with NY 9N and NY 22. NY 8 was truncated to its current northern terminus c. 1968. In the 1960s and 1970s, NY 8 was moved onto new freeways around and through the city of Utica. The 2017 route log erroneously shows that NY 8's southern terminus is at what is the northern terminus of the overlap with NY 10.[4][5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference 2014tdr was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference 1930nyt was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Geocortex Viewer for HTML5". gis.dot.ny.gov. Retrieved 2020-09-11.
  4. ^ New York State Department of Transportation (January 2017). Official Description of Highway Touring Routes, Bicycling Touring Routes, Scenic Byways, & Commemorative/Memorial Designations in New York State (PDF). Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  5. ^ New York State Department of Transportation (January 2018). Official Description of Highway Touring Routes, Bicycling Touring Routes, Scenic Byways, & Commemorative/Memorial Designations in New York State (PDF). Retrieved February 3, 2021.