Wantagh State Parkway

Wantagh State Parkway
Map of Nassau County on Long Island with Wantagh State Parkway highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by NYSDOT
Length:	13.33 mi (21.45 km)
Existed:	August 4, 1929 – present
History:	First section opened August 4, 1929 Full length completed on December 17, 1938
Restrictions:	No commercial vehicles north of Merrick Road
Major junctions
South end:	Ocean Parkway in Jones Beach State Park
	Southern State Parkway in North Wantagh
North end:	Northern State Parkway in Westbury
Location
Counties:	Nassau
Highway system
New York Highways Interstate U.S. State Reference Parkways

The Wantagh State Parkway is a 13.33-mile (21 km) long state parkway on Long Island, New York, in the United States. It links the Ocean Parkway in Jones Beach State Park with the Northern State Parkway in Westbury. The parkway is located approximately 30 miles (48 km) east of Manhattan and 14 miles (23 km) east of the Nassau–Queens border. Construction began in 1927 on this, one of the earliest of the Long Island parkways, with the initial 5-mile (8 km) segment opening two years later as the Jones Beach Causeway, connecting Merrick Road in Wantagh to newly opened Jones Beach State Park. The parkway is inventoried by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) as New York State Route 908T (NY 908T), an unsigned reference route.

The Wantagh State Parkway begins at a traffic circle with the Ocean Parkway in Jones Beach State Park just north of the Atlantic Ocean shoreline. The Parkway proceeds northward as a six-lane divided parkway, passing several large parking lots serving the state park, and soon crossing under Bay Parkway before bending northeast into an unnumbered interchange with the Bay Parkway. The parkway expands to eight lanes as it bends northeast through Jones Beach State Park, intersecting with several u-turn ramps between directions. As the parkway makes a large bend to the northwest, it gains elevation and reduces to five lanes, crossing over the nearby waterway via a bridge. After crossing, the Wantagh State lands on Green Island, being northeast past a tollbooth that is only applied southbound. After the tollbooth, the parkway returns to six lanes and crosses the waterway again, landing on Great Island.