 By July 1963 , the Northway was completed from the Canadian border south to exit 34 at Keeseville . Additionally , the existing Albany – Lake George section was extended slightly by May 1966 to serve the northern part of Lake George . At the time , I @-@ 87 curved around the western outskirts of the village to end at NY 9N north of the village on a highway built c . 1964 . In mid @-@ 1966 , the state opened a $ 23 million section ( equivalent to $ 168 million in 2016 ) of the Northway between Lake George and exit 26 at Pottersville . I @-@ 87 was reconfigured slightly near Lake George as a result : instead of heading east to NY 9N , it continued north on a parallel routing to US 9 . The Northway 's former routing to NY 9N , known infrequently today as the Lake George Connector , is now NY <unk> , an unsigned reference route 0 @.@ 66 miles ( 1 @.@ 06 km ) in length . NY <unk> has one intermediate interchange with US 9 . On March 5 , 1967 , the Lake George – Pottersville portion of I @-@ 87 was chosen as America 's Most Scenic New Highway of 1966 by Parade Magazine . It became the second New York highway to win the award , as a stretch of NY 17 in Broome and Delaware counties was selected for the title in 1964 . 
