To help clarify.
The "Bethpage Bike Path" or MUP is so named as it follows the right-of-way used by the Bethpage Parkway. That ROW actually has a parkway on it from the Southern State Parkway to the traffic circle in Bethapage State PARK. Note the cap's.
Thus the original path actually runs thru assorted parks and preserves from Merrrick Rd. in the Massapequa Preserve (Nassau County) to the picnic area in Bethpage Sate Park.
The new extension, still called the Bethpage MUP, starts adjacent to the picnic area lot in BP State Park and runs north thru the park to Haypath Road. At that point the right-of-way that was to be used for the Parkway (but never was) is in what is called Trailview State Park. It starts at Haypath Rd. and runs to Cold Spring Harbor. The new bike path/MUP follows the TV ROW as far as the LIE service Rd at Washington Ave., then heads west along the LIE to Sunnyside Lane, following Sunnyside down to Woodbury Rd., the northern terminus. TVSP continues north to Cold Spring Harbor.
Distances:
- Merrick Rd to BP State Park picnic area and the start of the extension - 7.5 miles one-way
- New MUP at BP State Park to the end at Woodbury Rd. - 5.5 miles one-way
Parking:
- If you want to pay $10 or whatever, park at the picnic area lot at BPSP.
- Or at the TOBAY public lot on Powell Ave. in BP, about 1/2 mile to the path.
- Or on Haypath Rd. or any of the side streets (Evelyn Dr. is quiet) and access the path from there.
- Also along Old Bethpage Rd. is good.
- If you want to start in the south, off West Dr., at the northbound Boundary Rd exit of the BP Parkway is good,
- The small lot on Sunrise where the path crosses Sunrise, just east of the Massapequa Park LIRR
- Or the MPP LIRR lot on weekends.
- TV also has parking lots for the new path at Old Country Rd. (actually on E. Bethpage Rd, just north of Old Country)
- The intersection of Washington and Executive Drive,
- A small lot on Sunnyside Lane, just east of Woodbury.
It's all complete at this point.
Last edited by Steve B.; 06-04-14 at 01:26 PM.