For a Friday afternoon trip, I recommend an inland detour. You will be sharing the road with thousands of people driving from the New York area and western Connecticut to vacation homes and rentals in eastern Connecticut, coastal Rhode Island, and Cape Cod. In my experience, driving east (north according to the signs) on I-95 on Friday after noon is extremely slow, even stop-and-go, for many many miles. So, if you are driving up on a Friday at this time of year, I would change my directions. By the way, no matter what you do, expect delays in New Haven, but unless you are traveling on Friday, those delays should be fairly brief and the road east of New Haven should be uncongested. So taking the GW Bridge saves you time and gets you just ahead of the rush. If you left Wilmington at the same time and took the detour to the Tappan Zee Bridge, you wouldn't get there until 4:00 at the earliest, and you would be stuck in traffic snarls from the New York side of the bridge at least as far as Bridgeport, Connecticut. I think you will miss it if you get to the George Washington Bridge by 3:00. That will get you through Stamford by 4:15 at the latest, which is just early enough to beat the worst of the heavy traffic that will shortly snarl I-95 all the way to Bridgeport. This will get you to the Connecticut state line before 4:00. The key here is to get to the George Washington Bridge no later than 3:00. Then follow I-95 through Connecticut to Foxwoods. When you get to I-287, take it east a short distance to I-95. Then take the exit for the Cross County Parkway, which you should take to the Hutchinson River Parkway northbound. Stay on the Henry Hudson, and its name will change to the Saw Mill River Parkway. This is how you avoid the brutal Cross Bronx Expressway. Take that first exit for the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound. However, you want to take the very first exit off of the George Washington Bridge once you get across it, so you want to be in the far right lane crossing the bridge. The afternoon traffic will be heavy going TOWARD New Jersey, not toward Manhattan. Then, if you can get to the George Washington Bridge by 3:00 p.m., take it. What I recommend instead is the New Jersey Turnpike all the way from Delaware, since it almost always moves quickly outside of rush hour.

US Route 206 is a slow road, and the detour north to the Tappan Zee Bridge will prolong your trip unnecessarily. Don't take I-95, US Route 206, or the Tappan Zee Bridge. As a veteran driver up and down the Northeast Corridor, here is my advice.

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