This old sign with old font is NB on the residential Johnsontown Rd. as it leaves parallel Seven Lakes Drive, before it escapes the residential Sloatsburg to gain a county designation. The top is similar to FHWA Series C and the bottom is similar to Series D, but the letters are special.


The only sign on CR 97 proper, SB speed reduction just before the Sloatsburg line. This font's not old, just wrong.


CR 97 goes for a couple of miles and ends in a dead-end loop, where you are sternly warned to park off the pavement. Please do park there and walk north, as the trail is very clearly old Johnsonville Road from the wide clear space. You will find old pavement in chunks and sections, you will follow old stone property lines (with impromptu waterfalls) from before the establishment of Harriman State Park, and at the very end you will find the road continuing straight ahead into the path of Seven Lakes Drive. That is not a coincidence, as until the 1962 opening of the current parkway, this was Stony Brook Drive, the through road north from Sloatsburg, roughly following Seven Lakes north to Lake Welch Pkwy. and then east along Lake Welch to CR 106. The various curves in the old road still manifest as other trails, parking areas, and most notably the similarly-named St. Johns Rd. at the northeast end.

Up onto the replacement, Seven Lakes Drive

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