Reply To: Alternate Routes To & From the Catskill Mountains

I use palisades till Exit 18 (left exit) which takes you to a ’roundabout’ – a little circle – and then i think its the second right (?) which is Route 6 (cant remember if its East or West, sorry, anyone here who knows can clarify), which becomes Route 17 after a few miles (so you just continue on the same road- very easy). I never take the thruway, which I heard has awful traffic. The Route 6 way does get a little traffic-y on Fri afternoons, but I don’t think its nearly as bad as the thruway gets.