County Route 36 (Suffolk County, New York) - County Route 38

County Route 38

County Route 38 is the main road along the north shore of the South Fork of Long Island in the town of Southampton. It begins in the Village of Southampton at the Nugent Street, Hampton Road, and South Main Street, although it actually begins as North Main Street, which branches off on its own and enters the North Main Street Historic District. CR 38 continues northwest onto North Sea Road before that can happen.

Beneath the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road It then passes by the Southampton Post Office, and later intersects the overlapping routes of NY 27 and CR 39. After this intersection, it continues northwest towards Tuckahoe, where it approaches the northern terminus of CR 52 (Sandy Hollow Road), and moves directly north.

In North Sea, CR 38 makes a sharp right turn from North Sea Road to Noyack Road with a right-turn ramp. From here, it passes by North Sea Fire Department, and then take a more northerly turn between North Sea Harbor and Fish Cove where it meets a similar intersection with a right-turn ramp at Indian Road. The road tries to go east, but soon curves northeast before the intersections of Majors Path, then Old Sag Harbor Road, and even further northeast as it approaches Water Mill Towd Road. Just after this, CR 38 runs north again and then encounters a marina and restaurant on the western edge of Wooley Pond on the opposite side of Turtle Pond Road. Just north of this intersection, is the creek leading to the pond that the residential dead end street is named for.

After Deerfield Road, CR 38 makes a sharp easterly turn in Noyack. It runs along the northern edge of Noyack Golf and Country Club, and the southern edge of the Morton National Wildlife Refuge, but turns slightly northeast again before approaching the intersection of Millstone Road. This direction is interrupted momentarily, when it moves to the east again at a popular swimming hole Trout Pond Park, where the road actually runs below lake level. It moves back to the northeast when it passes Ruggs Path and another restaurant, bar, and marina.

CR 38 takes a sudden turn from the northeast to the southeast at Elm Street and Bay Avenue, where it passes by a restaurant, general store and local supermarket. The edge of Noyack Bay is in close site and reach as the road gets ready to approach the at-grade interchange with CR 60 (Noyack–Long Beach Road) the southeast corner of which is at Payne's Creek. CR 38 continues along the west edge of Payne's Creek until it makes a left turn at a wye at Story Hill Road and moves east. This continues until it makes a right turn at Cove Road West and heads southeast again, passing by Noyack Cemetery on the south side, and along part of the west bank of Sag Harbor Cove on the north side.

Noyack Road ends at the intersection of Brick Kiln Road, but CR 39 makes a sharp left turn onto Brick Kiln and goes northeast. From there, it joins CR 79 onto Main Street as they head northeast towards their shared terminus with NY 114.

History

As far back as the 1930s the road was planned to be extended along the north shore of the South Fork of Long Island to the Amagansett–Promised Land area. Besides the existing segments of North Sea Road and Noyack Road, the new segment was to begin at the intersection of Brick Kiln Road then continue southeast until it reaches Town Line Road, where it would curve east. The CR 38 extension would gradually move southeast again, running along the headwaters of Northwest Creek and Three Mile Harbor, through Barnes Hole, and Devon until reaching Promised Land Road (CR 33), which it would replace until it reached NY 27 (Montauk Point State Parkway) in the East Hampton Beach section of Napeague. Though the extension was dropped due to anti-highway sentiment, the official description still includes the extension, thus the 25 miles.

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