PA Potpourri
Day 1
Ol' King Coal
Day 2
Two of the Oldest
Day 3
Dam, Incline, & Lincoln
Day 4
A Bit of Forty
I picked up US-40 at Uniontown and followed it into Ohio. Visited two Madonna of the Trail monuments and crossed the Wheeling Suspension Bridge.
June 24, 2005
I followed up a visit to the Johnstown Flood National Memorial with a ride
on the Johnstown incline then revisited a little of the Lincoln Highway.
June 23, 2005
Start off with the country's oldest brewery and end up surrounded by
Harleys. In between I see, but don't ride, the world's oldest roller
coaster.
June 22, 2005
A town that has all but vanished and another that has turned a played out
mine into a winning tourist attraction.
Prelude
I have posted previous trips home from central Pennsylvania that were
centered around some highway or another. One was primarily along US-6,
another US-62, and another the Lincoln Highway. This trip focuses on no
single highway but targets some sights that I have been fairly close to
and have been interested in but that were just a little too far off of
the chosen path. I hope to pick up a few of them on this trip.
I have seen signs and brochures for Johnstown, site of a devastating flood in 1889. I have even driven through the edge of the town but have yet to visit the park and museum there. As it has been for a couple of others, Williamsport, PA, is the starting point of this trip. It's about 50 miles from Centralia, a town that has been cooking atop a coal fire since 1962. The trip will form around this pair of disaster sites. I thought of making it a trio by adding Three Mile Island but learned that the visitor's center there has been permanently closed.