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Clarks Summit is a borough in Lackawanna County, northwest of Scranton in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 5,108 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] It is also the northern control city of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension , I-476, though the official terminus is in adjacent South Abington Township .
I-81 exit 194; I-476 / Penna Turnpike NE Extension exit 131 (Clarks Summit); northern terminus of I-476; south end of US 6 concurrency: 206.5: 332.3: PA 407 north (South Abington Road) – Clarks Green: Southern terminus of PA 407: Dalton: 210.4: 338.6: PA 632 east – Dalton: Interchange; western terminus of PA 632: La Plume Township: 212.2 ...
On the summit is an outcrop of Catskill conglomerate (Devonian age) known as the "Pinnacle Rock". From the summit one can view the northernmost extension of the geologic province known as the Glaciated Low Plateaus section. The mountain itself is in the Ridge and Valley Appalachians. To access the summit one can take the Pinnacle Rock trail.
Interstate 476 (I-476) is a 132.1-mile (212.6 km) auxiliary Interstate Highway of I-76 in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.The highway runs from I-95 near Chester north to I-81 near Scranton, serving as the primary north–south Interstate corridor through eastern Pennsylvania.
Lackawanna County is the second largest county in the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton, PA Metropolitan statistical area. It lies northwest of the Pocono Mountains approximately 40 miles (64 km) from the New Jersey border in Montague Township , and approximately 25 miles (40 km) from New York state in Kirkwood .
From 1912 to 1915, the Summit-Hallstead Cutoff (a.k.a. Pennsylvania Cutoff or Nicholson Cutoff) was built to revamp a winding and hilly system between Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, and Hallstead, Pennsylvania. This rerouting provided another quicker low-grade line between Scranton and Binghamton.
Pennsylvania Route 407 (PA 407) is a 12.5-mile-long (20.1 km) state highway located in Lackawanna and Susquehanna counties in Pennsylvania.The southern terminus is at U.S. Route 6 (US 6)/US 11 in South Abington Township, Pennsylvania near Clarks Summit near the northern terminus of Interstate 476 (I-476), also known as the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension.
PA 885 in Pittsburgh: I-279/US 19 Truck/PA 28 in Pittsburgh: 1962: current Called the Crosstown Boulevard [3] I-676: 2.15: 3.46 I-76/US 30 in Philadelphia: I-676/US 30 at New Jersey border in Philadelphia: 1964: current Called the Vine Street Expressway [3] I-695 — — I-95 near Philadelphia International Airport: I-95 in Philadelphia: 1964