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CoachUSA's '''[http://www.coachusa.com/CoachUsaAssets/files/98/HudsonM.pdf Short Line]''' bus service has a Catskill Mountain route, leaving New York City's Port Authority Bus Terminal several times a day for Sullivan County. Most trips terminate in Monticello, with a few going on to Liberty or Roscoe. Some routes also take short detours to popular destinations off the Route 17 corridor, like South Fallsburg, Sullivan County Community College or Monticello Raceway. If you're planning to get to Sullivan County without your own car, this is your best option.
CoachUSA's '''[http://www.coachusa.com/CoachUsaAssets/files/98/HudsonM.pdf Short Line]''' bus service has a Catskill Mountain route, leaving New York City's Port Authority Bus Terminal several times a day for Sullivan County. Most trips terminate in Monticello, with a few going on to Liberty or Roscoe. Some routes also take short detours to popular destinations off the Route 17 corridor, like South Fallsburg, Sullivan County Community College or Monticello Raceway. If you're planning to get to Sullivan County without your own car, this is your best option.
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===By car===
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'''New York State Route 17''', referred to by older residents as the '''Quickway''' and slowly being upgraded into '''Interstate 86''', is Sullivan County's principal connection to the rest of New York. Officially an east-west route, in Sullivan it runs more north-south, directly through the center of the county, serving as its spine and dividing east from west—Liberty, Monticello and Roscoe are right along the highway. Grade intersections in the northern areas are being eliminated as part of the interstate conversion, to the detriment of small towns like Parksville that depended on the pull-off traffic which now bypasses the town completely (nevertheless, the I-86 upgrade had been sought locally for years). Even so, there's an exit serving almost every community along its length and many nearby.
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If you come up from Port Jervis or neighboring areas of Pennsylvania, though, you may find yourself on '''New York State Route 42'''. The southern segment of this two-lane runs more north-south across the county, intersecting Route 17 at Monticello, then becoming Sullivan's only commercial strip for a brief distance along the road to the Fallsburgs and Woodbourne, paralleling the Neversink River all the way up to its northern terminus at tiny Grahamsville.
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A more direct approach from the east is '''New York State Route 52''', another two-lane. From Ellenville, it heads through some relatively undeveloped woods to enter Sullivan County just east of Woodbourne, then climbs through Loch Sheldrake, past the community college campus to Route 17 at Liberty. In western Sullivan it loops to the north, taking traffic to White Sulphur Springs and Jeffersonville, the largest village on that side of the county, before crossing into Pennsylvania at Narrowsburg.
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'''New York State Route 55''' is the other east-west two-lane across the county. It follows the south shore of Rondout Reservoir into Sullivan County east of Grahamsville, then crosses the Neversink Reservoir spillway to the west. After meeting Route 17 and Route 52 at Liberty, Route 55 turns more due south, crossing some mostly rural areas and passing the hamlets of Bethel and White Lake on its way to Barryville on the Delaware River, with a crossing to neighboring Shohola, in Pennsylvania's [[Pike County]].
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Should you be starting from Port Jervis for a destination along the river, you will be taking '''New York State Route 97''' through the scenic Hawk's Nest, site of too many car commercials, and then into Sullivan County where it serves every riverside community—Narrowsburg, Barryville, Cochecton and Callicoon, all the way up to [[Delaware County (New York)|Delaware County]]. Even if you're not going anywhere, it's a nice drive on a good day if you like the river scenery.
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While it's really not a major part of the county's road network, slicing across its southern corner, '''U.S. Route 209''' is a reasonably good shortcut to Sullivan County for travelers coming from far enough north to be able to get off the Thruway at [[Kingston (New York)|Kingston]]. The expressway at that point soon ends, but traffic flows fairly quickly along the continuing two-lane past Rondout Creek to Route 55 at Kerhonkson and Route 52 at Ellenville, with the scenic Shawangunk Ridge a backdrop to the east. Route 209 enters Sullivan County proper just a few miles north of Wurtsboro, southern Sullivan's largest village, and its exit along Route 17. Should you be headed to that area from Port Jervis to the south, you'll also be following 209.
==Get around==
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