It immediately traverses the Albany Pine Bush Preserve and passes west of Rensselaer Lake before crossing CSX Transportation's Hudson Subdivision and running parallel to Wolf Road, a business thoroughfare through the town of Colonie.
•
The section of I-87 between exits 38 and 39 crosses a marshy area surrounding Dead Creek, a stream feeding into nearby Cumberland Bay.
•
The Northway and I-87 end shortly thereafter at the Canadian border, where the highway continues past the Champlain-St. Bernard de Lacolle Border Crossing into Quebec as A-15.
Many fans and sportswriters refer to this match-up as "The Battle of I-87" because of the two-hour proximity of each school on Interstate 87 (Coincidentally, the approximate distance between the two is 87.4 miles).
Soon after the NY 146A intersection, the route encounters I-87 (the Adirondack Northway) at exit 9 and intersects US 9.
NY 213 turns northeast along the Wallkill, crossing under, but not interchanging with, the New York State Thruway (I-87).
Near Euclid Avenue, the route begins to parallel the Normans Kill, crossing under the New York State Thruway (I-87) just east of the latter's exit 23.
Interstate 75 | Interstate 90 | Interstate 5 | Interstate 94 | Interstate 81 | Interstate 80 | Interstate 70 | Interstate 40 | Interstate 95 | Interstate 10 | Interstate 65 | Interstate 64 | Interstate 44 | Interstate 90 in Minnesota | Interstate 71 | Interstate 35 | Interstate 15 | Interstate 476 | Interstate 78 | Interstate Highway System | Interstate 85 | Interstate 74 | Interstate 294 | Interstate 20 | Interstate Commerce Commission | Interstate 87 | Interstate 55 | Interstate 471 | Interstate 287 | Interstate matches in Australian rules football |
Immediately after coming off the bridge, there is an interchange with the Major Deegan Expressway (I-87) for Yankee Stadium and points upstate.
Examples of dumbbell interchanges in the United States are located on Interstate 35 in Medford, Minnesota, on Interstate 87 in Malta, New York, on Interstate 17 at Happy Valley Road north of Phoenix, Arizona, and on Interstate 80 at California State Route 89 (exit 185) in Truckee, California.
The opening of the New York State Thruway (Interstate 87/287), the Tappan Zee Bridge, and the Palisades Interstate Parkway in the 1950s helped usher in decades of population growth and real estate development, including the construction of the Nanuet Mall and local shopping centers.
Route 17 interchanges with Stag Hill Road just before merging with six-lane Interstate 287, which it follows to the New York border, where the road continues into Hillburn, Rockland County as Interstate 287 and New York State Route 17, intersecting Interstate 87 (the New York State Thruway) shortly after the state line.