How to Travel Interstate 287

Travel in New Jersey.

In New Jersey, the road starts going northwest until just south of South Plainfield then turns more west and dipping into a curve near the Raritan River, then traveling northwest again until it reaches Bound Brook (meeting with US-22) and turning west then a quick northwest just past Bridgewater and turns east again past the US-202 exit and more north just past the Mt. Airy Rd exit near Bernardsville and turning more northeast past the Glen Alpin Rd interchange (just west of the Truck Rest Area on the eastbound side). It takes several turns weaving in and out of big cities like Morristown, Montville, and Riverdale before passing Pompton Lakes, and Wanaque and traveling east until it meets NJ-208 and splits (past US-202) near Crystal Lake and travels north past Mahwah and into the next state through the Ramapo Valley County Reservation, just before merging with NJ-17 and US-202 (again). Travel in Middlesex County. In this county, expect unnumbered exits for NJ-440 and I-95/NJ Turnpike at it's beginning (NJ Turnpike exit 10), then numbered exits for Edison Township (1, 2, 3), South Plainfield (4), South Plainfield-Piscataway (5), and Piscataway Township (6, 7, 8, and 9). Within this county, you'll enter from I-95 in Edison where it connects to Route 440 as the Lt. Col. Richard F. Lauer, US Army Highway until it interchange with US-1, County Route 531 and passes under the Conrail Shared Assets Operations Bohamtown Industrial Track line before Route 27 and passing over Amtrak's Northeast Corridor towards CR-501 (southbound exit). The highway passes businesses and interchanges with Durham Ave and enters Piscataway before interchanging to CR-665, S Randolphville Rd, Route 18, and CR-622 exits. Travel in Somerset County. In this county, expect exits for Franklin Township (10, 12), Bridgewater Township (13, 14, 17), Bedminster Township (21, 22), and Bernards Township (26, 30). Within this county, the highway crosses the Raritan River before coming to Franklin Township to become the Captain (Ret) Joseph Azzolina US Navy Highway, and interchanging with CR-527, passes some residences and businesses, an interchange with CR-623 and crossing the Raritan River and continues to Bridgewater Township and passing over Conrail Shared Assets Operations' Lehigh Line, NJ Transit's Raritan Valley Line, and CR-533 near TD Bank Ballpark (Somerset Patriots) before interchanging with NJ-28 and passing over Norfolk Southern Railway's Middle Brook Industrial Track before US-22, Bridgewater Commons (mall) and US-202/US-206 - which it then parallels within NJ.Express lanes begin here as the highway runs past more residences and entering Bedminster before intersecting I-78 at the Vincent R. Kramer Interchange (where the express lanes hold a westbound exit and the local lanes hold an eastbound exit) before ending. The route then heads into another interchange with US-202/US-206 before entering Far Hills where it passes CR-512 and narrowing through CR-525, then gaining a larger median and reaching NJ Transit's Gladstone Branch and North Maple Ave within Bernards Township. Travel in Morris County. In this county, expect exits for Morris Township (33), Morristown (35, 36), Hanover Township (37, 39), Parsippany-Troy Hills (40B, 40A, 41, 42, 43), Boonton (44, 45), Montville (47), and Riverdale (52, 53). Within this county, this highway crosses the Passaic River before becoming the Congressional Medal of Honor Highway and joining US-202 before entering a rest stop (northbound) and crossing into Morris Township and Harter Rd (exit only). It junctions at CR-663 before entering Morristown and enters developments coming into Route 124, and passes the Morristown Medical Center, NJ Transit's Morristown Line and coming back into Morris Township then Hanover Township before further expanding. The route passes the Morristown and Erie Railway's Whippany Line before Route 10 and entering Parsippany-Troy Hills with CR-511 and I-80. Continuing, it accesses US-46, US-202/CR-511 in woods then comes to the Intervale Rd (carrying US-202/CR-511) and entering Boonton near the NJ Transit's Montclair-Boonton Line, then heads through wooded areas before some residences and another US-202 interchange, crossing under NJ Transit's Montclair-Boonton Line before it gets mountainous. The highway runs through Kinnelon, Pequannock Township and Riverdale (Route 23) before CR-511 Alt. Travel in Passaic County. In this county, expect an exit for Wanaque (55). Within this county, the highway crosses the Pequannock River and becomes the US Air Force Gunner Clarence "Red" Mosely Highway before passing through Pompton Lakes into Wanaque as it comes to it's only interchange at CR-511 and passes through rock cuts in the Ramapo Mountains before passing over a bridge through the Wanaque River valley into Oakland, NJ in the next county. Travel in Bergen County. In this county, expect exits for Oakland (57, 58), Oakland-Franklin Lakes (59), and Mahwah Township (66). Within this county, the highway is named the Army Staff Sergeant Walter Bray Highway and passes through Skyline Drive before crossing the Ramapo River and reaching a US-202 junction and paralleling the New York-Susquehanna-Western Railway line heading towards interchanges with Route 208, then splitting with the rails, and entering Mahwah in the Campgaw Mountain Reservations (seen to it's west) near the Ramapo College campus, over US-202 and reaching an exit with Route 17, before widening for the last time through the Ramapo Valley County Reservation with businesses nearby.

Travel in New York.

In New York, the route quickly merges with I-87 in Hillburn near the border and quickly juts east through Suffern, Monsey and Spring Valley-Nanuet, West Nyack, Nyack, then south east before crossing the Hudson River in the Tappan Zee section and dipping into Tarrytown, before descending southeast through Elmsford, Fairview, White Plains, all the way over to Port Chester - where it ends, on a route it originally began from close to the New York-Connecticut border, just north of Rye. Travel in Rockland County. In this county, expect exits for Suffern-Hillburn (15), Ramapo (14B), then the Spring Valley Toll Gantry (westbound only), Chestnut Ridge (14A), Clarkstown (14, 13, 12), Nyack (11), and South Nyack (10). Within this county, you'll enter through Hillburn during the concurrency with NY-17, and moments later with I-87 before passing over Metro-North's Port Jervis line and reaching other exits. Exits later (after Spring Valley), there's a toll gantry only for trucks on the westbound side before entering Chestnut Ridge and encountering the exit for the Garden State Parkway Connector, passing the NJ Transit/Metro North Railroad's Pascack Valley Line, interchanging with the Palisades Interstate Parkway, passing under CSX Transportations' River Subdivision line before interchanging with NY-303 holding access to the Palisades Center (mall) just south of the highway. From this point, this interstate turns and heads through suburban Nyack and interchanges NY-59 and US-9W, with a toll gantry for the Tappan Zee Bridge with E-Z Pass or Toll-by-Mail, crossing US-9W, just before passing into the Palisades and interchanging its last exit at US-9W with no southbound exit. Cross the Hudson River on the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge (former Tappan-Zee Bridge). This crossing is only for those going eastbound and costs $6.75 (New York E-ZPass), $7.11 (Non-NY E-ZPass), or $7.98 (Toll-by-Mail). This bridge is a twin cable-stayed bridge, carrying vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians across the Hudson River over 8 automobile lanes, 2 bus lanes, and 2 bicycle/pedestrian lanes. Travel in Westchester County. In this county, expect exits for Tarrytown (9), Greenburgh (8), Elmsford ((8A or 1(westbound)), 2, 3, 4), Greenburgh (5), White Plains (6, 7), White Plains-Harrison City (8W, 8E, 9A), Harrison (9, 10), Rye-Port Chester City (11), and the City of Rye (12 and two unnumbered exits - including its eastern terminus. Within this county, the highway crosses Metro-North's Hudson Line before coming to US-9 and the terminus to NY-119 then past woodland and business parks and splitting with I-87 continuing south and I-287 east - as the Cross Westchester Expressway, with continuance to/from the northbound Saw Mill River Parkway and NY-119. Within the county, as this highway is the Cross-Westchester Expressway, the highway heads east for several interchanges, including NY-119, then passing over the Saw Mill River Parkway/Saw Mill River before entering Elmsford and encountering NY-9A (without an eastbound exit). It turns and intersects the Sprain Brook Parkway and continues to NY-100A and leaving Elmsford near residential areas, coming to the NY-100&NY-119 exit with the Bronx River Parkway, the Bronx River and Metro-North's Harlem Line, and into White Plains. The highway reaches NY-22 before sharp-curving south and heading through somewhat inhabited areas and reaching the Central Westchester Parkway (with the Taconic State Parkway), into downtown White Plains and Westchester Ave, as well as the Westchester (mall) in Downtown White Plains, before turning east between Harrison and White Plains, as it passes business parks and residences. It then turns southeast, coming to terminuses with I-684 and entering Harrison with the cloverleaf interchange with the Hutchinson River Parkway, past wooded sections with NY-120 fronting this highway all before reaching an interchange and entering Port Chester and it's area of dense suburban growth and intersecting US-1 (including from the southbound New England Thruway), and entering Rye, passing over Northeast Corridor and merging into I-95 N, about .5 miles (0.80 km) west of Connecticut state line.