Lake Road (Western New York)

Lake Road
Route information
Maintained by Monroe County, Wayne County, and the village of Sodus Point
Length:	29.00 mi[1] (46.67 km)
Major junctions
West end:	Irondequoit Bay Outlet Bridge in Webster
	CR 120 in Pultneyville
East end:	NY 14 in Sodus Point
Location
Counties:	Monroe, Wayne
Highway system
Numbered highways in New York Interstate • U.S. • N.Y. (former) • Reference • County

Lake Road is an east–west roadway in western New York, United States. It extends for 29.01 miles (46.69 km) from the Irondequoit Bay Outlet Bridge in the Monroe County town of Webster to NY 14 in the Wayne County village of Sodus Point. As its name implies, it follows the southern shore of Lake Ontario for its entire length. Lake Road serves as the northern terminus of NY 250 and was once the northern terminus of NY 21. The entirety of the roadway east of Bay Road in Webster is part of the Seaway Trail, a National Scenic Byway.

The portion of Lake Road west of NY 250 in Webster became part of NY 18 in the early 1930s. NY 18 never extended eastward from its junction with NY 250. In the early 1970s, NY 18 was truncated to NY 104 in Rochester. The portion of Lake Road remained state-maintained as an unsigned reference route for some time afterward; however, ownership of the roadway was transferred from the state of New York to Monroe County as part of a highway maintenance swap that took effect on November 26, 2007. All of Lake Road west of Sodus Point is now county-maintained as County Route 1 in Monroe County and County Route 101 in Wayne County; however, the road is commonly known by its road name instead. The portion within Sodus Point is locally maintained.

Route description

Western terminus of Lake Road in Webster

Lake Road begins at the eastern approach to the Irondequoit Bay Outlet Bridge in the town of Webster. The bridge is a seasonal bridge; it is closed during the summer months to allow boat traffic to pass from Irondequoit Bay to Lake Ontario through the Outlet. During the winter months, it connects to Culver Road on the opposite side of the Outlet. Lake Road heads east as unsigned County Route 1 along a narrow peninsula separating the bay from the lake, serving a variety of seaside structures. Just northeast of the end of the peninsula, Lake Road intersects Bay Road (CR 16), a roadway that serves as the primary eastern lakeside highway.^[1]

The road continues along the lakeshore to the hamlet of Forest Lawn, a small community in north Webster. Here, it intersects the northern terminus of NY 250. Past NY 250, Lake Road meets several local north–south roadways before crossing into Wayne County and the town of Ontario. At the county line, Lake Road intersects County Line Road,^[1] a highway maintained here by Wayne County as County Route 100, a designation signed only on blade signs for the roadway.^[2] Meanwhile, Lake Road continues on as CR 101, intersecting with local roads and heading through a small, residential community known as Ontario-on-the-Lake.^[1]

East of the community, Lake Road intersects with Lakeside Road (CR 102). This intersection is the northern terminus of the county designation, with Lakeside Road continuing north as a town highway. Lake Road continues through a short residential stretch that has fields along its northern side. After an intersection with North Slocum Road, Lake Road continues through fields, and eventually intersects with a local dirt road, which leads to an industrial complex. The road continues on, intersecting Ontario Center Road, Knickerbocker Road (CR 108) and Furnace Road (CR 110) as it heads along the Lake Ontario shoreline and enters the town of Williamson.^[1]

Lake Road at Hamilton Street in Pultneyville. The latter was once part of NY 21.

In Williamson, the fields continue, this time to the south of the highway, as lakeside homes run along the northern side. The route begins its way on a northeast stretch, passing by residential homes and fields. It intersects Stoney Lonesome Road (CR 112) on its way to Pultneyville, a large lakeside hamlet. Inside the community, it intersects Hamilton Street^[1] (CR 120)^[3] at a junction that was once the northern terminus of NY 21.^[4]

Outside of Pultneyville, Lake Road continues along the shoreline, intersecting with several roads of local importance. At East Townline Road (CR 118), Lake Road passes into the town of Sodus. East of the town line, the highway curves southeast to follow a more inland routing. It intersects Maple Avenue (CR 134), a north–south highway leading to the village of Sodus, then returns northeastward as it approaches the village of Sodus Point. It intersects North Geneva Road (CR 140) west of the village, then enters Sodus Point.^[1] CR 101 ends at the village line, and the final mile (1.6 km) of Lake Road is maintained by the village of Sodus Point.^[5] Lake Road continues east through the western portion of the village to NY 14, where Lake Road ends and continues east as Bay Street, which is part of NY 14.^[1]

The entirety of Lake Road east of Bay Road in Webster is part of the Seaway Trail, a National Scenic Byway.^[6]

History

Reference marker for NY 18 on Lake Road in Webster in March 2008. By this time, Lake Road was no longer maintained by the state.

In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, NY 18 was extended eastward from its original terminus in Buffalo to a new terminus in Rochester.^[7] NY 18 was extended again by the following year to end at an intersection with NY 250 in Webster. In between the Irondequoit Bay Outlet and NY 250, NY 18 utilized Lake Road.^[8] Although Lake Road continued east to Sodus Point, NY 18 never extended any farther eastward than its junction with NY 250.^[9][10][11] Ca. 1973, NY 18 was truncated to NY 104 in the area of Rochester known as Kodak Park.^[12][13] The former routing of NY 18 east of the north end of the Sea Breeze Expressway became NY 941L, an unsigned reference route.^[14] At some point between 2004 and 2007, the definition of NY 941L was altered to include only Lake Road; that is, the portion of NY 18's former routing from the Irondequoit Bay Outlet Bridge to NY 250.^[14][15]

In 2007, ownership and maintenance of NY 941L was transferred from the state of New York to Monroe County as part of a highway maintenance swap between the two levels of government. A bill (S4856, 2007) to enact the swap was introduced in the New York State Senate on April 23 and passed by both the Senate and the New York State Assembly on June 20. The act was signed into law by Governor Eliot Spitzer on August 28. Under the terms of the act, it took effect 90 days after it was signed into law; thus, the maintenance swap officially took place on November 26, 2007.^[16] The former routing of NY 941L became a westward extension of County Route 1.^[17]

Major intersections

County	Location	Mile[1]	Destinations	Notes
Monroe	Town of Webster	0.00	Irondequoit Bay Outlet Bridge	Connection to Culver Road in Irondequoit
		5.57	NY 250	Northern terminus of NY 250
		Lake Road becomes CR 101 eastbound and CR 1 westbound
Wayne	Ontario
		8.76	County Line Road (CR 100)	Northern terminus of CR 100
	Williamson	18.48	Hamilton Street (CR 120)	Hamlet of Pultneyville; former northern terminus of NY 21
	Sodus Point village line; CR 101 ends eastbound and begins westbound
	Sodus Point	29.00	NY 14
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

New York Roads portal

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Yahoo! Inc. Yahoo! Maps – overview map of Lake Road (Map). Cartography by NAVTEQ. http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=43.266609&lon=-77.232509&zoom=12&q1=43.234917%2C-77.533378&q2=43.263519%2C-77.434254&q3=43.269585%2C-77.376082&q4=43.279697%2C-77.185871&q5=43.270335%2C-76.989072. Retrieved May 26, 2009. 
2. ^ New York State Department of Transportation (1997). Ninemile Point Digital Raster Quadrangle (Map). 1:24,000. http://www.nysgis.state.ny.us/gisdata/quads/drg24/dotpreview/index.cfm?code=n19. Retrieved May 26, 2009. 
3. ^ New York State Department of Transportation (1999). Pultneyville Digital Raster Quadrangle (Map). 1:24,000. http://www.nysgis.state.ny.us/gisdata/quads/drg24/dotpreview/index.cfm?code=n21. Retrieved May 26, 2009. 
4. ^ Exxon (1977). New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting (1977–78 ed.). 
5. ^ New York State Department of Transportation (1999). Salmon Creek Digital Raster Quadrangle (Map). 1:24,000. http://www.nysgis.state.ny.us/gisdata/quads/drg24/dotpreview/index.cfm?code=n22. Retrieved May 26, 2009. 
6. ^ National Scenic Byways Program. "Seaway Trail – New York – Print-n-Go". http://www.byways.org/explore/byways/2200/print_n_go.html. Retrieved May 26, 2009.  The driving directions option was selected and used to determine the Seaway Trail's routing.
7. ^ Dickinson, Leon A. (January 12, 1930). "New Signs for State Highways". The New York Times: p. 136. 
8. ^ Kendall Refining Company (1931). New York (Map). Cartography by H.M. Gousha Company. 
9. ^ Texaco (1946). New York with Pennsylvania (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. 
10. ^ Sunoco (1952). New York (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. 
11. ^ Sinclair Oil Corporation (1964). New York and Metropolitan New York (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. 
12. ^ Gulf Oil Company (1972). New York and New Jersey Tourgide Map (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company (1972 ed.). 
13. ^ Shell Oil Company (1973). New York (Map). Cartography by H.M. Gousha Company (1973 ed.). 
14. ^ ^{a b} New York State Department of Transportation (October 2004) (PDF). Official Description of Highway Touring Routes, Scenic Byways, & Bicycle Routes in New York State. https://www.nysdot.gov/divisions/operating/oom/transportation-systems/repository/tour_route_0.pdf. Retrieved May 26, 2009. 
15. ^ New York State Department of Transportation (October 2007). Official Description of Highway Touring Routes, Bicycling Touring Routes, Scenic Byways, & Commemorative/Memorial Designations in New York State. 
16. ^ New York State Legislature. "Bills of New York State – bill number-based search". http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/menugetf.cgi. Retrieved February 5, 2010. 
17. ^ Monroe County, New York. "Monroe County Map Builder". http://www.mappingmonroe.org/mmb/. Retrieved March 23, 2009.  The dates and designations were obtained by using the Identify tool.