{{Short description|State highway in Wyoming County, New York, US}} {{Use American English|date=April 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox road |state=NY |type=NY |route=362 |map={{maplink-road}} |map_custom=yes |map_alt=Map of New York State Route 362 |map_notes=Map of Wyoming County in western New York with NY 362 highlighted in red |length_mi=3.68 |length_ref=<ref name="2008tvr" /> |established=1930<ref name="1930map" /> |direction_a=South |terminus_a={{jct|state=NY|NY|39}} in Eagle |direction_b=North |terminus_b={{jct|state=NY|NY|78}} in Wethersfield |counties=Wyoming |previous_type=NY |previous_route=361 |next_type=NY |next_route=363 }} '''New York State Route 362''' ('''NY 362''') is a state highway located entirely in Wyoming County, New York, in the United States. It runs north–south for {{convert|3.68|mi}} between an intersection with NY 39 in the town of Eagle and a junction with NY 78 in the town of Wethersfield. The two-lane route begins in the hamlet of Bliss, and heads across gradually less developed areas as it heads north from the community. NY 362 was assigned to its current routing as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York.
==Route description== left|thumb|NY 362 through the hamlet of Bliss, as seen from old NY 39 NY 362 begins at an intersection with NY 39 in the hamlet of Bliss, located within the town of Eagle. The route heads north through the community as a two-lane road, traversing several residential blocks ahead of a junction with Main Street (County Route 58). Past this junction, NY 362 turns northwest and heads under an abandoned railroad overpass as it leaves Bliss for less developed areas of the town of Eagle. Outside of Bliss, the highway gradually turns to the north, serving a handful of scattered residences located in otherwise open and rolling terrain in the northern part of the town. NY 362 eventually crosses into the town of Wethersfield, where the homes gradually give way to large cultivated fields ahead of the route's end at a rural junction with NY 78.<ref name="bing">{{bing maps |url=http://binged.it/UoLzR9 |title=overview map of NY 362 |accessdate=January 4, 2013}}</ref>
==History== On April 27, 1911, the state of New York awarded a contract to rebuild all of what is now NY 362. The project cost $44,785 to complete (equivalent to ${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|44785|1912|r=0}}}} in {{inflation/year|US}}), and the reconstructed road was added to the state highway system on January 24, 1912, as unsigned State Highway 893 (SH 893).<ref name="1922book">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lhlbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA46 |author=State of New York Commission of Highways |title=Tables Giving Detailed Information and Present Status of All State, County and Federal Aid Highways |year=1922 |publisher=J. B. Lyon Company |location=Albany, NY |page=46 |accessdate=January 18, 2013}}</ref>{{Inflation-fn|US}} In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, hundreds of state-maintained highways were given posted route numbers for the first time.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dickinson |first=Leon A. |title=New Signs for State Highways |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 12, 1930 |page=136}}</ref> One of these was SH 893, which was designated NY 362.<ref name="1930map">{{cite map |title=Road Map of New York |year=1930 |publisher=Standard Oil Company of New York |cartography=General Drafting}}</ref> The alignment of the route has not been changed since that time.<ref name="bing" />
==Major intersections== {{NYinttop|length_ref=<ref name="2008tvr">{{cite web |url=https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/engineering/technical-services/hds-respository/Traffic%20Volume%20Report%202008.pdf |title=2008 Traffic Volume Report for New York State |date=June 16, 2009 |format=PDF |page=219 |publisher=New York State Department of Transportation |accessdate=February 1, 2010}}</ref>|county=Wyoming}} {{NYint |mile=0.00 |road={{jct|state=NY|NY|39|city1=Pike|areadab1=CDP|city2=Arcade|areadab2=village}} |location=Eagle |notes=Southern terminus; hamlet of Bliss }} {{NYint |mile=3.68 |road={{jct|state=NY|NY|78|city1=Java Center|city2=Warsaw|areadab2=village}} |location=Wethersfield |notes=Northern terminus }} {{NYintbtm}}
==See also== *{{Portal-inline|U.S. roads}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Attached KML}} {{commons category|New York State Route 362}} {{NYSR external links|type=N|nyroutes=yes|termini=yes|route=362}}
362 Category:Transportation in Wyoming County, New York