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Despite decades of modernization and reconstruction, the Northern State Parkway still manages to maintain its rustic flair. The rebuilt and widened sections through Nassau County have stone-arch overpasses and wooded buffer zones, and at least try to maintain the aesthetic ideals of the original parkway (unlike its continuation to the west, the Grand Central Parkway).
Most of the round-the-clock congestion (outside of rush hours, when much of the parkway is congested anyway) occurs between the Queens-Nassau border and EXIT 31A (Meadowbrook State Parkway). Much of this traffic is bound to or from the Meadowbrook. Other congestion hot-spots include EXIT 35 (NY 106 / NY 107) and EXIT 40 (NY 110), two antiquated cloverleaf interchanges that are slated for replacement during the next decade.
The pavement is in relatively good shape, and signing is pretty clear (unlike 20 or more years ago).
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