Well this is an easy theme for the New York Traveler! I love roads, especially open ones. This is one of my favorite photos. It’s Route 9 in the Adirondack Park, near Lake George. It is a wild, rugged place. This is the road that made me carsick for the first time in 20 years. You can read about our travels to this area here.
This is the road we walked to see Fort Ticonderoga, a 300-year old fort that defended the American colonies from the French in 1754 and from the British in 1776. It’s right on the border of New York and Vermont– the beautiful Lake Champlain divides it. It’s a beautiful area. Isn’t New York beautiful in the autumn?
Here we are walking down another Adirondack Park road, although this road is all the way on the other side of the park, a 3-hour drive west. It’s in White Lake, NY. I love how the trees make a zigzag pattern in the sky. See more about our trip here and here.
This is a photo of Fort Ontario, all the way on the other side of New York State. Lake Ontario is the border between us and Canada. Fort Ontario is another very old fort, used during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution to defend our borders. You can read more about our visit here.
Do “streets” count for today? Here’s a street in lovely Cooperstown, NY. We visited it, see here.
And here’s an older photo I took of 28th Street in Manhattan, when I lived there in the 1980s.
Here’s the road to the historic Utica Insane Asylum, built in the mid 1800s but in great disrepair now. It’s known throughout the world as being the finest example of Greek Revival Architecture anywhere. It is a stunning building. You can read much more about it here.
And here is a photo of Erie Boulevard in Syracuse, looking downtown. We had visited the Erie Canal Museum– what fun! See more about our visit here.
How did your Photo Hunt go today?
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September 20th, 2008 at 10:07 am
wow! u got a lot of entry for this week. great shots with your roads. mine is up too.
September 20th, 2008 at 10:17 am
A really great series of shots. The colours in the first few are so beautiful:)
September 20th, 2008 at 10:17 am
I loved the fall shot. They are all beautiful, though! My take this week is a bit different variation of road. Hope you can come by and take a look. Happy weekend.
September 20th, 2008 at 10:18 am
st perfect I esp love the first:) two and the 3rd street shot I think I will go back and add my NY ones:)
September 20th, 2008 at 10:37 am
All great shots of roads, but the ones I love are the first one with the trees and the fall colors. I miss the colors of autumn since moving to the Gulf coast. :sigh: Thanks for sharing those.
Drop by. My take is very different. 
September 20th, 2008 at 11:00 am
I’ll bet it was an easy one for you.
those first few shots are gorgeous!
September 20th, 2008 at 11:12 am
A great selection of roads. The tree tops look like the edge of a zipper.
September 20th, 2008 at 11:14 am
When people here of NY, they think of NY city. It’s nice to be able to show folks that we have some beautiful scenery here. I was just in the Finger Lakes region with my daughter who was interviewing for a job in Ithaca. Just beautiful and the leaves aren’t in full color yet…
September 20th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
I like to walk on roads passing through scenic views. You have a good collection of roads!
September 20th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Oh i really like your road entries its pretty…happy weekend.
September 20th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Perfect one for today’s theme… Happy weekend! Mine’s up too hope you can drop by…
September 20th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
I immediately saw the zig-zag pattern from the trees too! Lovely photos!
September 20th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
I love seeing the beautiful changing colors of the leaves in the first two photos. The leaves do not change color where I live.
September 20th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
What a wonderful variety of roads you have!
Great photos!!
September 20th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
I love your photos, fall, that is my time of year.
September 20th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Great photos. They seem to represent all the seasons.
September 20th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Great pictures. I drove past Syracuse last Saturday!
I agree with Sarge Charlie. Fall is the most beautiful season of the year, especially if you live in Canada!
My post…
September 21st, 2008 at 4:15 am
I am so glad to hear someone else gets carsick on winding roads. These are wonderful photos.
September 21st, 2008 at 9:07 am
Love that top road especially, even though it would probably make me carsick too!
September 21st, 2008 at 12:38 pm
A different road with a different season and different weather..what a cool shot
September 21st, 2008 at 8:30 pm
gorgeous shots and wonderful places!!!
September 22nd, 2008 at 3:44 am
I love the photos. Just beautiful.