West Oakland Avenue continues southward into Pompton Lakes, where it becomes Colfax Avenue. There is no East Oakland Avenue; West Oakland Avenue runs through a part of town called West Oakland.
Skyline Drive is a beautiful (and hazardous in rain or snow) mountain crossing to Ringwood and the Wanaque Reservoir. The plans for NJ 208 envisioned a road going in roughly this direction and then heading north, perhaps paralleling Sloatsburg Road and Sterling Lake Road, but the highway would have been difficult to build over Ramapo Mountain and through what are now considered prime conservation areas. Much of its path in New York is part of Sterling Forest State Park, itself part of a greater Highlands land conservation effort.
New NJDOT overhead signage on West Oakland Avenue indicates that the road is part of primary route 4, even though Bergen County has apparently never signed it as such.
Mile | Street Name | Feature (East to West) |
0.00 | CR S-91 BEGINS, Oakland Boro | |
0.00 | West Oakland Ave | Ramapo Valley Rd, US 202 / CR 91 {signal} |
0.15 | West Oakland Ave | I-287 NB ramps {signal} |
0.59 | West Oakland Ave | Ramapo River {bridge} |
0.69 | CR S-91 turns right onto Skyline Dr | |
0.69 | Skyline Dr | West Oakland Ave {signal} |
0.73 | Skyline Dr | I-287 {underpass} |
Heading up the Skyline Drive hill. The mile marker, probably placed by Bergen County, indicates 0.4 mile from the start of Skyline Drive (not from the start of County Road S-91). |
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2.49 | Entering Ringwood Twp, Passaic Co | |
Skyline Dr | Next 0.27 mile is Passaic CR 692 | |
2.76 | Entering Oakland Boro, Bergen Co | |
3.14 | CR S-91 ENDS, Oakland Boro | |
Entering Ringwood Twp, Passaic Co |