Site Navigation Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire New Jersey New York Pennsylvania Rhode Island Vermont     Interstate 280 New Jersey Interstate 280 East Edwards Road travels south from Vail Road and U.S. 46 to Interstate 280 at Exit 1. Interstate 280 sees a partial-cloverleaf interchange with the roadway south of its intersection with New Road at Pine Brook. Photo taken 08/11/04. Interstate 280 descends from Morris County into Essex County ahead of its cloverleaf interchange with Eisenhower Parkway. Eisenhower Parkway comprises a surface arterial southward from Interstate 280 Exit 4 to New Jersey 10 (Mount Pleasant Avenue) and Essex County 510 (South Orange Avenue). The divided highway dead ends one half mile to the north of Interstate 280 at an area of wetlands. Photo taken 08/11/04. Essex County 527 interchanges with Interstate 280 at the Exit 5A/B cloverleaf interchange. The north-south highway travels south to Livingston and the John F. Kennedy Parkway to Short Hills and Chatham. The county route intersects New Jersey 10 (Mount Pleasant Avenue) in 1.1 miles. Photo taken 08/11/04. Eastbound at the Exit 5B loop ramp onto Essex County 527 northbound. Motorists using this ramp will reach Eagle Rock Avenue at Roseland within three quarters of a mile. From there Essex County 527 follows Roseland Avenue northward to Essex Fells, Caldwell, and North Caldwell. Connections with Essex County 506 (Bloomfield Avenue) and Passaic Avenue link the road with West Caldwell. Photo taken 08/11/04. Pleasant Valley Road travels north-south from Milburn through the South Mountain Reservation and Pleasantdale to Verona. A folded-diamond interchange joins the surface boulevard with Interstate 280 at Exit 7. Photo taken 08/11/04. The second of two eastbound Interstate 280 interchanges for West Orange departs at Exit 9 for Mount Pleasant Avenue. Mount Pleasant Avenue becomes New Jersey 10 at its intersection with Essex County 577 (Prospect Avenue) south of Exit 8 and west of Exit 9. Otherwise Mount Pleasant Avenue becomes White Street to the east at its intersection with Main Street. Use Main Street northbound for Montclair. Photo taken 08/11/04. Interstate 280 descends to below grade through the cities of Orange and Newark. Exit 11 ascends from the depressed freeway as Capuchin Way, an eastbound frontage road, for Essex Avenue and Center Street. The freeway varies between six and eight lanes through Orange. Photo taken 08/11/04. Original overheads posted at the Harrison Street overpass in the city of Newark on Interstate 280 eastbound. The freeway travels below grade between a pair of frontage roads through New Jersey's largest city. Visible above is the NJ Transit Brick Church Station at Prospect Place and Brick Church Plaza. Interstate 280 intersects the Garden State Parkway and Oraton Parkways (parallel frontage roads to the Parkway) in one half mile at Exit 12. By 2001 these panels were replaced with retroreflective overheads. Photo taken 04/10/00. Interstate 280 crosses the Passaic River between Newark and Harrison via a six-lane lift bridge. The draw span is one of a handful on the Interstate system and resides between Exits 15 (New Jersey 21) and Exit 16 (Hudson County 508). Designated the William A. Stickel Memorial Bridge, the Passaic River span was built between 1948-49. Opened on May 1, 1949, the bridge became part of the interstate system in 1971. Rarely opened for vessels below, the 209.6 meter long bridge is now considered obsolete.1 Photo taken 04/10/00. Interstate 280 West No Photos at this time. Scenes Pertaining to Interstate 280 Interstate 280 New Jersey trailblazer located at the Eagle Rock Avenue northbound intersection with Eisenhower Parkway (Essex County 609) south of Exit 4 at Roseland. Essex County 609 junctions with the freeway one quarter mile to the right at a full cloverleaf interchange. Photo taken 04/10/00. Sources: 1 - William A. Stickel Memorial Bridge, Nicolas Janberg's Structurae. Page Updated December 4, 2004.