follow Salmon Creek into the hamlet of Braddock Heights, where NY 261 connects to the Lake Ontario State Parkway by way of an interchange. This exit is the westernmost interchange on the parkway in Monroe County, which becomes a four-lane divided highway until reaching Orleans County. NY 261 continues northeast past the Lake Ontario State Parkway, serving a line of homes overlooking Braddock Bay to the southeast, and eventually Lake Ontario to the east. Until January 2017, state maintenance of NY 261 ceased just northeast of the junction with the parkway, at which point it became county-maintained as the unsigned CR 272. Roughly northeast of the Lake Ontario Parkway, NY 261 reached the lakeside hamlet of Manitou Beach. The route turned southward before reaching the lake shore, however; instead, it parallels the shoreline for before terminating at an isolated dead end south of the hamlet. History On June 9, 1915, the state of New York let a contract to improve all of modern NY 261 to state highway standards. The reconstruction cost $79,296.22 (equivalent to $ in ), and the roadway was added to the state highway system on December 26, 1916, as the unsigned State Highway 1281 (SH 1281). In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, hundreds of state-maintained highways that did not have a posted route number were assigned one. NY 261 was assigned to SH 1281 by the following year. The alignment of the route has not changed since that time; however, ownership and maintenance of NY 261 northeast of the Lake Ontario State Parkway was transferred from the state to Monroe County at some point prior to 1997. Major intersections See also List of county routes in Monroe County, New York References External links 261 Transportation in Monroe County, New York