Avoiding Parkways for a trailer

[BonesDT]

I'm doing Lee Parks' Total Control course (www.christineskickstart.com) tomorrow up at Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie, NY!

I'm trying to figure out how to get there (coming from the South - White Plains) without using parkways since I'm taking my trailer. I'm checking out googlemaps.com and it gives me the option to use 9/9A. However, no matter how I detour onto side roads, I can't seem to avoid sections of Briarcliff Peekskill Pkwy.

Does anyone know how to get up to Poughkeepsie? Is there a web map that calculates routes for trailers?

 

[dolfnz67]

I'm not sure exactly where in poughkeepsie your going to but you can take 684 north to 84 west and get off on route 9 and go north.

 

[BonesDT]

Thanks, that's exactly what I just came up with playing around on the map. A little bit more out of the way than I liked, but I guess it's the only way.

I'm pretty surprised the big guys (google & mapquest) don't have a truck/trailer feature. They let you "avoid highways" & tolls, but they really need this feature! It also would be nice if they broke down all the tolls on a trip (instead of just the vague "toll road"). Apparently, some E-Z Pass tolls automatically calculate your trailer axle, and some you have to go through the cash lane, depending on who owns that road. I never figured it out, I just gun E-Z Pass them and hope I don't get pulled over. It worked going to BeaveRun.