Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-24
NEW YORK OFFERS
. BEAUTY TO TOURIST
Auto Club of America Outlines
Routes Through Empire ,
State and to Canada.

For natural beauty and scenic Won
UerS, the State of New York, known as
the Empire State. occupies an enVlaole
position. Its picturesque and historic
points are available to the motorlst
who travels its splendid system Of maca-
cam and concrete highways.
On this trip outlined by the Automo-
bile Club of America, New York, one
passes over Storm King highway,
Through the Shawanguak and Catskiil
Mountains, spends some time IN the
Ringer Lake region. stops oil at cities
on two of the Great Lakes, Erie ana
Ontario, runs along the banks OF the
Hudson and Susquehanna Rivers, and
visits Niagara Falls.
For the run from New York to Bling
hamton one has a choice of two routes.
First. leaving New York via Broadway,
follow the Albany post road up through
Yonkers. DobbS Ferry, and Tarrytown
to Peekskill. thence across bridge to
Bear Mountain. From here follow route
No. CIV to West Point, then over the
Storm King highway to Cornwall and
on to Newburgh; from Newburgh run
out via route No. 8 to Montgomery.
then through Bullville to Bloomingburg
on the Liberty highway This route as
outlined is all in good condition at the
present time.
Alternate Route.
Another route very popular with mo-
florists is TO cross the river by one OF
the upper ferries and then run to
Hackensack. from which point route
No. IL may be followed. This is known
as the Liberty highway and runs north
westward across the State clear out to
WeStfield Running out of HackenSack,
pass through HohokuS, Su1fern and
Tuxedo to Monroe. In the vicinity of
1.-THE latter town there is some road work
going on and traffic may be delayed
somewhat
Running onward from Monroe, pass
through Goshen and Middletown en-
route to Bloomingburg. Here the route
first mentioned via Newburgh Joins the
Liberty highway. From here on, one is
passing through the Shawangunk
Mountains, the foothills of the Cats
kills and a very popular vacationland
with many New Workers
The next town is Monticello, the
county seat of Sullivan County: then
Liberty and Roscoe. This pretty town is
located about rs miles from New York,
and is an excellent place to spend the
night If the trip on to Binghanton is
too much for one day. Continuing on
from Roscoe. the route runs through
Hancock, Deposit and West Windsor
to Binghamton, situated at the juno
ton of the SusQuehanna and Che
mango Rivers. Near West Windsor
traffic is subject to delay owing TO road
construction.
Across New Jersey.
The second route to Binghamton is
60 run out across the State of New
Jersey 20 the Delaware Water Gap.
Any of the lower city ferries may be
taken to the Jersey side OF the river
and the route runs via Montclair. Nor
ristown, HackettStown, and Buttzville
TO Delaware After crossing the river
the road is rough alongside the Della
ware River to Portland and the Gap
The Water Gap is very popular Sum-
mer resort and wonderful views of the
2-lrlile gorge, are obtainable from many
points In the vicinity.
From the Gap the route runs via the
Iackawanna Trail, through Strouds-
burg, Mount Pocono. Tobyhanna and
Daleville 70 Scranton. At the present
time there is 7-mile detour in the