The abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike tunnels: How to find them. Updated: Apr. 26, 2024, 8:11 p.m. ... Here's a map of Pump Station Road (blue route) and the parking area (blue star): ...

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 ...

BREEZEWOOD, Pa. (WJAC) -- Built in the late 1930s, the Sideling Hill tunnel in Bedford County was only in operation for 28 years before being closed. Now, the sight looks post-apocalyptic. &ldquo ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

BREEZEWOOD – The Pike 2 Bike trail in Bedford and Fulton counties, known as the abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike, got a major cleanup Thursday morning.More than two dozen employees from Bedford ...