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Originally Posted by awellis3
We are planning to do this trip again next fall and I'm eye-balling taking I-81N to Scranton, then I-84E to pick up I-87N. Is this a good route to tow a TT on? I'm guessing 87 between NY city and Albany would be pretty busy.
Thanks for any help.
Teach
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Hi Teach,
We have made the trip from OH across PA and then up into NY for the last 7 years and will be again this year. My parents have a place in the lower Hudson valley we visit each year near the Catskill mountains area. We then head up into Adirondacks camping.
We come across I-80 from OH into PA and then get on I-81 north for a while until we get to I-84 east, then up I-87 north up the NY State Thruway (toll road). And at Albany the Thruway changes to I-90 West. I-87, (non toll) then is called the Northway, and keeps on going up into northern NY. Depending on where we go in the Adirondacks we either go up the Northway, I -87N or go up Rt-30 which is further west. Since your going to Saratoga, you will go up the Northway, I-87
The I-81, I-84 and I-87 that is part of the NYS Thruway is OK towing road. Yes there is traffic, but it has never bothered us that much. We hang out in the far right lane towing 60mph and the crowd just passes us.
However....when in NY on the I-87 Thruway, watch the rest areas with the camper. You pull into the truck area for parking if you use the rest area and that is OK, but if you need fuel... that is the concern area. Cars are like bees on a hive... and no one wants to be behind a camper... Actually to get gas, it is better to pull in the rest area and go direct to the pumps so you can get the truck and camper on the correct side of the pumps with a more straight shot then coming out of the truck parking area. We have often, stopped and parked in the truck area and used the rest rooms and then to get gas, just traveled another 30 minutes to the next rest stop for gas. Turning the camper out of the truck parking area to the gas pumps is the issue. Some rest stops are better then others.
The last time we where on the I-87 during the summer of 2015, the Northway above Albany had some ripples in the road in need of resurfacing. But it was tolerable at that time.
I don't know if you are camping along the way, but we do a night stay over at Promised Land SP in PA. It is easy off and back on I-84, and is a really nice park.
You mentioned I-88, like between Port Dickson and Rotterdam.
... that road use to be the disaster of a camper towing road! They had started to resurface it from the eastern end, but we managed to be trapped on part of it for the last 15 miles on the western end back in 2010 and will never go again.... I seriously believe I damaged my camper frame on that road. I-88 has been reported to have been fixed, but better check for sure.
Have a good trip. Upstate NY is a very beautiful area.
John
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