Three Pennsylvania Turnpike tunnels were bypassed in the late 1960s when the highway was modernized. One, Laurel Hill, has been turned into a high-tech race car testing facility.

By the 1960s, the tunnels that bore through the Allegheny Mountains were abandoned, and since have slowly succumbed to the elements, or in the case of the Laurel Hill tunnel, turned into a high-tech ...

Construction on what became the turnpike tunnels began in the 1880s, when the New York Central Railroad began work on a southern Pennsylvania route to compete with the Pennsylvania Railroad’s ...

A multi-county tourism agency received state funds this week to study developing a trail on an abandoned section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. For years, an abandoned 13-mile-long turnpike path ...

A half-century of interstate highways has made the excitement of the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s opening hard to imagine. Exploring an unused stretch on the now-abandoned highway, however, reveals ...

To alleviate congestion, two additional tunnels were bored. Eventually, a 13-mile stretch of the turnpike was abandoned in favor of a more modern bypass that opened in 1968. But the old highway ...

An abandoned section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike is slated to become the Pike 2 Bike Trail. The Southern Alleghenies Conservancy, which bought an 8.5-mile, two-tunnel stretch of the road in 2001 ...

The now-abandoned Sideling Hill tunnel was the longest in the state at 1.28 miles, but that tunnel closed when that portion of the Pennsylvania Turnpike was bypassed and realigned in 1968.

The abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike tunnels in Fulton and Bedford counties still stand as they did 50 years ago, when they were bypassed as the highway was modernized.