 The southernmost of the route are concurrent with NY 30A, which continues south of NY 162's intersection with US 20.NY 162 is a two-lane highway for all of its length, although its final has a climbing lane southbound as it leaves the Mohawk Valley over the Sprakers Gorge.The route was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York and realigned slightly in the late 1960s to bypass an accident-prone stretch near its northern terminus.