{"id":10110,"date":"2021-05-07T00:35:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T04:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=10110"},"modified":"2022-01-16T12:16:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T17:16:26","slug":"tn7-hop-12-honesdale-pa-to-croton-on-hudson-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/07\/tn7-hop-12-honesdale-pa-to-croton-on-hudson-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"TN7 Hop 12: Honesdale PA to Croton-on-Hudson NY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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TN7 Hop 12<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

116 miles via PA 670, PA 191, US 6, I-84, NY 17, US 6 again, NY 293, US 9W, US 6 yet again, US 202 and US 9. Cumulative tow miles: 1905. Truck miles: 138. Cumulative truck miles: 2891. The 22 extra truck miles were due to a refueling trip to the nearest diesel depot, 11 miles away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a difficult hop to plan and even more difficult to execute. There are a lot of “passenger cars only” roads near New York City and I very much wanted to avoid those. Also, the route chosen by both Google and the GPS took me over the Bear Mountain Bridge<\/a>, a bridge over the Hudson River that I had never traversed before and looked like it might have weight restrictions. So my plan was to go a few miles further east, over the I-84 bridge, then head south on US 9. But when I got to NY 17 and both Google and GPS were telling me to take it, I caved. I was thinking that NY 17 could be taken to the Tappan Zee Bridge which would be close to my destination. But the Tappan Zee is too far south and I ended up heading to the Bear Mountain Bridge, images dancing in my head of my rig rolling over a scale and flashing lights and sirens going off. “Too heavy! Turn back!” In fact there was an ominous sign about a weight limitation of 10 tons somewhere ahead and I did mental calculations as I drove. Yup, pretty close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the weight limit on the Bear Mountain Bridge is 58 tons. I needn’t have worried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I should have worried about was the narrow, winding segment on US 202. It is a scary road. Beautiful, but scary, with a low rock wall all that separated my rig from a dive into the Hudson River. 10 minutes of white knuckles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not a long hop, but a memorable one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My home in Honesdale PA was the Ponderosa Pines Family Campground<\/a>. This campground is remote. I had to traverse about 5 miles of roads that didn’t have route designations and I could use only the GPS because my phone had no cell service (until I arrived, then the cell service was fine). When I checked in the office staff told me that I could take any transient site (there were about 8 along the lakeshore) because I would be “all alone down there.” I didn’t know quite what they meant because there were lots of seasonal RV sites all around the transient sites. But, as I discovered after I set up and took Rusty for a walk, none of them were occupied<\/em>. This must be a weekend family getaway campground. I truly was by myself “down there.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All alone in a very dark, very quiet campground. And by quiet I mean no sounds other than the owls – no planes, no trains, no automobiles. And no sounds from other campers. Downright spooky. But quite serene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was dense fog in the morning, followed by heavy rain all day. The lake rose about 6 inches. A nearby town, Prompton, had over 4 inches of rain and some street flooding. I prayed that those tiny roads that led out of the campground would still be passable when I had to depart. They were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Morning fog at Ponderosa Pines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My site on the lakeshore, after the rain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

116 miles via PA 670, PA 191, US 6, I-84, NY 17, US 6 again, NY 293, US 9W, US 6 yet again, US 202 and US 9. Cumulative tow miles: 1905. Truck miles: 138. Cumulative truck miles: 2891. The 22 extra truck miles were due to a refueling trip to the nearest diesel depot, … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,13,4,7,5,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places-ny","category-places-pa","category-places","category-routes","category-rvparks","category-tn7"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-2D4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10110"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10834,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10110\/revisions\/10834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}