
- Runs from Interstate 81 Exit 16A to Interstate 81 Exit 29 and then continues as NY Route 481.
- Runs through Onondaga and Oswego Counties.
- Length is 19 miles.
- First section completed was originally numbered Interstate 281 for about a year.
- As of January 2007, mileposts have never been installed on Interstate 481.
- First section completed was from Jamesville Rd to Interstate 690 in the early 1970s.
- Second section completed was from Interstate 690 to I-90 in the 1970s.
- Third section completed was from Jamesville Rd south to I-81 in the late 70s/early 80s. (NYSDOT photologs indicate that the Interstates 81 & 481 interchange was under construction in 1976).
- Last section from Interstate 90 north to Interstate 81/NY Route 481 was completed in late 1985.
- Some development maps show Interstate 481 being extended in a northwest direction from Interstate 81 Exit 16 to the NY Route 5/Genesee Street interchange in Fairmount.
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EXIT 1 Rock Cut Rd Brighton Ave |
EXIT 1 Brighton Ave |
Carrier Dome Parking |
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EXIT 2 Jamesville Rd Jamesville |
Clark Reservation State Park Jamesville Beach County Park |
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EXITS 3 E-W De Witt Fayetteville |
Cazenovia Chittenango Manlius Erie Blvd |
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EXIT 4 WEST ![]() Syracuse Faigrounds EXIT LEFT |
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WESTSyracuse Fairgrounds |
East Syracuse |
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EXITS 5 E-W Kirkville Rd |
Green Lakes State Park | |
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EXIT 7 Bridgeport |
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EXIT 8 Northern Blvd |
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EXITS 9 N-S![]() Watertown Syracuse |
Syracuse Airport EXIT 9S |
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EXIT 10![]() Circle Dr North Syracuse |
EXIT 10![]() North Syracuse |
Mall |
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EXIT 11 Caughdenoy Rd Maple Rd NO RETURN TO 481 FROM THIS EXIT |
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EXIT 12 Baldwinsville Cicero |
Radisson | |
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Oswego County | Onondaga County |
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EXIT 13 Phoenix |
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EXIT 14 Phoenix Mexico |
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CITY OF FULTON EXPRESSWAY ENDS |
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![[I-481]](signs/481i-050.png)
![[I-81]](signs/081i-050.png)

![[I-690]](signs/690i-050.png)
![[NY 481]](signs/481bw-050.png)
![[US 11]](signs/011-050.png)
