⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Driving New York Route 212 from Saugerties, NY to Woodstock, NY

August 4, 2022 - 7:30 PM
82°F / 28°C
Dashcam view of driving westbound on New York Route 212 (Saugerties-Woodstock Road) from Saugerties to Woodstock in Ulster County, New York.
From Wikipedia:
New York State Route 212 (NY 212) is an east-west state highway located entirely within Ulster County, New York, in the United States. It runs for 21.92 miles from an intersection with NY 28 in the interior of the Catskill Park to a junction with U.S. Route 9W (US 9W) and NY 32 on the west bank of the Hudson River, providing a key interchange with the New York State Thruway (Interstate 87 or I-87) along the way. The mostly rural two-lane route serves the communities of Woodstock and Saugerties while passing Cooper Lake, Kingston's reservoir. NY 212 was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York.
The modern-day alignment of NY 212 dates to 1828, when the state of New York passed a bill authorizing the construction of the Saugerties and Woodstock Turnpike Road Company. Passed on April 21, 1828, this new turnpike was to be constructed from the village of Saugerties at the store of Jeremiah Russell to Woodstock's Reformed Dutch Church. Provisions were made to extend the turnpike road to Shandaken and the house of Barnet Eighmey. This new road would be no wider than 50 feet wide with a 20-foot roadbed. If they chose to build a ditch, the roadbed would only need to be 15 feet. The company would erect at least one toll gate and provisions for more, which would rate at a cost relevant to every 10 miles traveled. However, tollgates would not be allowed to be constructed within the village of Woodstock. On May 2, 1864, the state of New York approved the request of the company to construct a new toll gate on the right-of-way, located between Saugerties and the King's road (Ulster CR 31). The company would also discontinue the toll-gate located on the King's road.
Modern NY 212 was added to the New York state highway system in stages over the course of the early 20th century. The first segment was acquired by the state on July 9, 1902, and extended for 5 miles from the Woodstock-Saugerties town line to CR 35 in Saugerties. An adjacent 4-mile section was added on August 15 of that year, extending state maintenance of the road west to CR 45 in Woodstock. The portion of the highway east of CR 35 was added in two parts, the earliest of which became state-maintained on January 11, 1905, and extended from CR 35 to the Saugerties village limits. The section within the village was accepted into the state highway system 15 years later on July 30, 1920. State maintenance was extended northwest from CR 45 to Willow in the early to mid-1920s and southwest to Mount Tremper around the end of the decade. The Mount Tremper-Saugerties state highway did not have a posted route number until the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, when it was designated NY 212.