Route Description
It is one of the more unusual parkways of Long Island, with most of its exits not meeting freeway standards. For most of its length, it is similar to a divided highway with right-in/right-out access, with right-only intersections forming most of the junctions and turnaround points for traffic coming from the opposite direction. There are three exceptions: the junction with the Wantagh State Parkway, which is a roundabout, and the junctions with Robert Moses Causeway near Captree State Park, and at Bay Parkway in Jones Beach State Park where it becomes Meadowbrook State Parkway, both of which are full cloverleaf interchanges.
Because of its southern location, Ocean Parkway is one of the few parkways in New York State that allows truck traffic along its entire length, albeit for local deliveries only. This is because an exemption to the "No Trucks" regulation was made for any length of parkway that lies south of either Merrick Road or Montauk Highway (Nassau County Route 27 and NY 27A, respectively). There are no other truck routes south of this route, making the parkways the default route for deliveries to the beaches.
On a sunny day, the Manhattan skyline can be seen from as far as the Suffolk County portion of the parkway, approximately 40–45 miles away.
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