Route 481 North

NY 481 leaves the cloverleaf interchange with I-81 and I-481 on the approach to U.S. 11 (Nh Main Street / Brewerton Road) and Circle Drive. Exit 10 connects the freeway with Market Place Mall and array of big box retail.

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Exit 10 joins NY 481 north with parallel Circle Drive. Circle Drive joins U.S. 11 (Brewerton Road) with South Bay Road (CR 208). U.S. 11 follows Main Street south through North Syracuse and Brewerton Road north through Cicero.

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Entering the town of Clay, NY 481 continues northwest by Clay Marsh State Wildlife Management Area. The freeway is designated the Veterans Memorial Highway.

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Exit 11 joins NY 481 north with CR 49 (Caughdenoy Road) at CR 197 (Maple Road).

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Exit 11 consists of just one ramp, the exit from NY 481 north to the intersection of Caughdenoy Road and Maple Road.

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Caughdenoy Road travels north from suburbs adjacent to NY 481 to the community of Caughdenoy. Maple Road angles northwest to Grange Road (old NY 31) near Clay town hall.

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Proceeding north, NY 481 winds alongside the wildlife management area to a crossing of Mud Creek.

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Northbound travelers enter another suburban area of Clay on the approach to NY 31 at Exit 12.

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NY 31 heads west from Cicero and the Clay town center to meet NY 481 at a diamond interchange near Great Northern Mall.

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Exit 12 parts ways with NY 481 north for NY 31. NY 31 heads west to Radisson and Baldwinsville.

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Northbound reassurance shield for NY 481 posted at the Ver Plank Road overpass.

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Distance sign for NY 481 north with distances to Phoenix, from the succeeding exit, the freeway end at Fulton and the state route end at Oswego.

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Spanning the Oneida River on NY 481 north. The Oneida River separates Onondaga and Oswego Counties from Oneida Lake west to West Phoenix.

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A short distance north of the county line is the half diamond interchange (Exit 13) with CR 57A. CR 57A travels south to CR 57 (Oswego Road) and north to CR 12 (Lock Street). Chesnut Street Road connects the county route with the town of Phoenix to the west.

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NY 481 north at Exit 13 to Oswego County Route 57A. CR 57 follows the original alignment of NY 57. Replaced by the NY 481 freeway, NY 57 was decommissioned in 1982.

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Oswego County Route 57A pentagon posted at the end of off-ramp from NY 481 north. The closest return access to the freeway northbound lies north of Phoenix from NY 264 (Volney Street) at Exit 14.

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