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unusual facts about U.S. Route 209


Peg Leg Bates

U.S. Route 209 in Ulster County, New York has been named the "Clayton Peg Leg Bates Memorial Highway".


Lehigh Gorge State Park

The southern access point is just off exit 74 of Interstate 476 via U.S. Route 209 through Jim Thorpe and across the bridge to the north bank on Pennsylvania Route 903 to the Glen Onoko neighborhood, formerly East Mauch Chunk the left bank or northern part of the borough of Jim Thorpe.

Nesquehoning Creek

U.S. Route 209 climbs up inside the V-shaped gully of the westernmost of these from the beginning terminus junction with PA-54 within downtown Nesquehoning up over the ridge to the headwaters region of the Panther Creek Valley across the Nesquehoning Ridge drainage divide into the valley formed with Pisgah Ridge.

Pennsylvania Route 534

The eastern terminus is at US 209 in Polk Township.

Pennsylvania Route 903

PA 903 begins at an intersection with US 209 in Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, heading northeast on two-lane undivided River Street.


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