Interstate 790


I-790
  • Runs from NY Routes 5A & 5S to Interstate 90/New York State Thruway at Interchange 31.
  • Located in the Utica area in Oneida County.
  • Length is 2.7 miles. Not the shortest interstate in New York, that title belongs to I-587.
  • Interstate 790 isn't much of an interstate. Runs concurrently with NY Route 5 for it's entire length and also NY Routes 8 and 12 for the first 1.5 miles.
  • There are no mile markers.
  • NYSDOT Region 2 has worked with the FHWA and AASHTO to move the I-790 designation to the NY Route 49 freeway (Utica-Rome Expressway) to Rome.


Guide to Interstate 790 Interchanges
MILE EASTBOUND EXITS
Read down		 WESTBOUND EXITS
Read up		 Notes
0 [EAST]
[I-790]
[EAST] [NORTH] [NORTH]
[NY 5] [NY 8] [NY 12]
 [WEST] [SOUTH] [SOUTH]
[NY 5] [NY 8] [NY 12]

FREEWAY ENDS

 
0 [SPEED LIMIT 55]

 
0 [NY 5A] [NY 5S]
Downtown
Whitesboro		 [NY 5A] [WEST]
[NY 5S] [EAST]
State St
Downtown Utica
Whitesboro

State St is not listed on exit signs until you have left Interstate 790.
0.5 [I-790] [NY 5] [EAST]
To [NY 49] To [I-90] [Thruway]
River Rd

 

 Rome
Herkimer

River Rd is not listed on signs until you left Interstate 790.
0 [SPEED LIMIT 65] [SPEED LIMIT 55]

 
1.2

 

 [NY 8] [NY 12] [NORTH]
Poland
Watertown

 

 

 [EAST]
[I-790]
[EAST]
[NY 5]		 [WEST]
[I-790]
[WEST] [SOUTH] [SOUTH]
[NY 5] [NY 8] [NY 12]

 
1.8

 

 [I-790] [NY 5] [WEST]
[NY 8] [NY 12] [SOUTH]
Downtown Utica
Binghamton

 
2.2 [I-90] [Thruway]
Albany - Buffalo
Genesee St SOUTH

 

This exit is only marked "To I-90 / Genesee St SOUTH"
2.7 [SPEED LIMIT 55]

 

 
2.7 Genesee St NORTH

 

 
2.7

 

 [SPEED LIMIT 65]

 
2.7 [EAST]
[NY 5]

FREEWAY ENDS

 [WEST]
[I-790]
[WEST]
[NY 5]

 
MILE NORTHBOUND EXITS
Read down		 SOUTHBOUND EXITS
Read up		 Notes