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Wellesley Island, New York, United States to Hill Island, Ontario, Canada: Official name: The Thousand Islands Bridge system: Maintained by: Thousand Islands Bridge Authority: Characteristics; Design: suspension, open-spandrel deck arch bridge & truss bridge [1] Total length: Total: 8.5 mi (13.7 km) Longest span: American suspension: 800 ft (240 m)
The Thousand Islands Border Crossing connects the towns of Alexandria Bay, New York, and Ivy Lea, Ontario, on the Canada–US border. The crossing is via the international span of the Thousand Islands Bridge. The Thousand Islands bridge, which was completed in 1938, is actually a system of five bridges and the island roadways connecting them.
The new bridge approach included an interchange with the St. Lawrence River Road, known today as the Thousand Islands Parkway, but it was not numbered. Until 1965, the route was known as the Ivy Lea Bridge Approach. Highway 137 was first designated in 1965 as far as the Thousand Islands Parkway. [2]
The Thousand Islands archipelago is at the outlet of Lake Ontario at the head of the Saint Lawrence River.The region is bisected by the Canada–United States border and covers portions of Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties in the U.S. state of New York, in addition to parts of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville and Frontenac County in the Canadian province of Ontario.
Interstate 81 (I-81) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from I-40 at Dandridge, Tennessee, to the Thousand Islands Bridge at Wellesley Island in New York, beyond which the short 2.7-mile (4.3 km) Ontario Highway 137 (Highway 137) links it to Highway 401.
John E. Fitzgerald Bridge (Clarks Summit Bridge) [19] [20] [21] U.S. Routes 6 and 11: 1955: Pennsylvania: Paul Bryant Bridge: Black Warrior River: 2004: Alabama: Rosendale Trestle: Rondout Creek: 1872: New York: Thousand Islands Bridge: Saint Lawrence River: 1937: New York / Ontario (Canada) Varina-Enon Bridge: James River: 1990: Virginia: 148 ...
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The highway returns to Interstate standard for about 50 miles until it reaches the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge, which carries undivided lanes to the Canada–US border in the middle of the bridge, where I-75 terminates. The Thousand Islands Bridge, which carries I-81 over part of the Saint Lawrence River, is an undivided two-lane road.