This trip begins going northbound on US 209 through the business district of Lehighton. Some years back the traffic through Lehighton on US 209 was split into northbound and southbound streets, improving the traffic flow. In recent years the business district of Lehighton has been nicely spruced up, giving it an old fashioned small town downtown look and feel to it and making it attractive to folks passing through on their way to visiting Jim Thorpe. At approximately 3:45 the trip crosses the bridge over the Lehigh River which was built as a Works Projects Administration (WPA) project back in the 1930s. The bridge is named for a longtime State Representative who represented that area in the PA State House for many years, his son later on was also a State Representative. After crossing the bridge the trip turns eastward on PA 248, passing under the Northeast Extension of the PA Turnpike (I 476) on the way to Palmerton. This trip was in Carbon County.
This trip begins going northbound on US 209 through the business district of Lehighton. Some years back the traffic through Lehighton on US 209 was split into northbound and southbound streets, improving the traffic flow. In recent years the business district of Lehighton has been nicely spruced up, giving it an old fashioned small town downtown look and feel to it and making it attractive to folks passing through on their way to visiting Jim Thorpe. At approximately 3:45 the trip crosses the bridge over the Lehigh River which was built as a Works Projects Administration (WPA) project back in the 1930s. The bridge is named for a longtime State Representative who represented that area in the PA State House for many years, his son later on was also a State Representative. After crossing the bridge the trip turns eastward on PA 248, passing under the Northeast Extension of the PA Turnpike (I 476) on the way to Palmerton. This trip was in Carbon County.
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