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Westbound Views
The road ends at a stop sign. Turn left to stay on NY 55. Old Route 22 (CR 6) begins to the right.
Photos taken April 2017.
Skipping a few miles, NY 55 splits off from NY 22 and runs west as a two-lane undivided road.
Photos taken October 2022.
Turn right here to go north on Dutcher Avenue (CR 69). Continue straight ahead on NY 55 for access to the southbound direction of CR 69.
Photos taken October 2022.
NY 55 begins to go uphill. There is a second westbound lane for slow vehicles. Harmony Road (CR 69) splits off to the left. Turn here to go south.
Photos taken October 2022.
NY 55 continues uphill. There are some interesting rock formations along this stretch.
Photos taken October 2022.
There is a second westbound lane for a short distance again as NY 55 goes uphill once more.
Photos taken October 2022.
NY 292 begins on the left.
Photos taken October 2022.
Pleasant Ridge Road (CR 32) begins on the right. Immediately thereafter, NY 216 begins on the left at a traffic light.
Photos taken October 2022.
There is a traffic light at CR 9. Turn right onto Clove Valley Road to go north or left onto Beekman Road to go south.
Photos taken October 2022.
There is a traffic light at CR 21. Turn right onto Bruzgul Road to go east. Turn left onto East Noxon Road to go west.
Photos taken October 2022.
There is a traffic light at NY 82. Turn right to go north or left to go south.
Photos taken October 2022.
There is an interchange with the Taconic Parkway.
Photos taken October 2022.
There are three roundabouts in the downtown area. NY 55 has a brick median along this stretch. Freedom Road (CR 47) begins on the right at the third roundabout.
Photos taken October 2022.
The median ends, and NY 55 continues west as a two-lane undivided road. Here, it is known as Freedom Plains Road.
Photos taken October 2022.
NY 55 widens to become a six-lane divided highway. Noxon Road (CR 21) begins on the left at a traffic light.
Photos taken October 2022.
There is a traffic light at Burnett Boulevard. Turn right here for access to Dutchess Turnpike (US 44) east.
Photos taken October 2022.
US 44 merges in from the right. The two routes are multiplexed through Poughkeepsie as a pair of parallel one-way streets. There is a traffic light at Taft Avenue (CR 38) at the merge point. Motorists coming from US 44 can turn right to go north, but right turns are prohibited from the lanes coming from NY 55.
Photos taken October 2022.
NY 55 follows US 44 through Poughkeepsie and across the Mid-Hudson Bridge to Ulster Bridge.