How to Travel New York's Sprain Brook Parkway

Co-authored by Christopher Batchelor

Last Updated: November 12, 2024

While many people think that the Westchester County's Sprain Brook Parkway - unsigned reference route NY State Route 987F^{[1]
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Learn where the highway begins - and what leads up to it.

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This highway begins at a fork in the road with the Bronx River Parkway.
- This area also connects to the Cross County Parkway and the Bronx at Cross County Parkway's exit 6.^{[2]
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Travel the route.

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You'll begin traveling this highway from the Bronx River Parkway, heading almost straight north for the first .5 miles (0.80 km) as a 6-lane freeway to the west of Scout Field County Park. It then curves to the northwest and the routes break away, sending this highway northwest past Andrus Park into Centuck, before traveling straight north-northeast with bounded lines bending to the northeast on either side of Grassy Sprain Reservoir, then crossing Sprain Ridge Park and a golf course. The highway will cross Ardsley Rd, Underhill Rd, and the Sunningdale Country Club. It passes East Rumbrook Park, Anthony F. Veteran Park, and Secor Woods Park, within a half mile of Ferncliff Cemetery and the site of Malcolm X's burial plot^{[3]
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- This parkway doesn't have official exit numbers,^{[4]
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- In Westchester County, expect exits for Yonkers, Ardsley, Greenburgh, Elmsford, Greenburgh, and Hawthorne.
  - Travel within Yonkers. Expect exits at mile markers 0.00 miles (0 km) (for the Bronx River Parkway), 1.88 miles (3.03 km) (for NY-100/Central Ave) and at mile marker 1.33 miles (2.14 km) (for Tuckahoe Rd/Ridge Hill Blvd).
  - Travel within Ardsley. Expect exits at mile marker 4.00 miles (6.44 km) (for Jackson Ave).
  - Travel within Greenburgh. Expect an exit at NY-100B at 7.6 miles (12.2 km) (for the NY-100B).
  - Travel within Elmsford. Expect an exit for I-287 at mile marker 8.91 miles (14.34 km) (for the I-287/Cross Westchester Expressway.
  - Travel within Greenburgh. Expect an exit for NY-100C/Grasslands Rd at mile marker 10.39 miles (16.72 km).
  - Travel within Hawthorne. Expect exits at mile markers 11.2 miles (18.0 km) (for NY-100/Hospital Rd and Westchester Medical Center).

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Pass onto its final highway.

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This highway's final endpoint exists at mile marker 12.65 miles (20.36 km) with the former Hawthorne Circle at exit 2 on the Taconic State Parkway, where its traffic filters into the Taconic State Parkway and NY-141.
- This exit is also exit 26 on the Saw Mill River Parkway.^{[5]
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This parkway parallels NY-100 to its west. However, at points, it doesn't directly connect and instead connects to county routes providing the connection to this route.

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