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US Route 6 in Pennsylvania, through the eleven counties of Crawford, Erie, Warren, McKean, Potter, Tioga, Bradford, Wyoming, Lackawanna, Wayne and Pike, is the focus of an effort to preserve, enhance and promote the transportation heritage of one of the nation's first transcontinental highways and to sustain and enhance the small rural communities linked by the highway.

STATE HERITAGE AREA

On January 13, 2005, Governor Edward Rendell named Route 6 in Pennsylvania as a State Heritage Corridor under the PA Heritage Areas Program of the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Route 6 joins 11 other state heritage areas, five of which are also national heritage areas, in celebrating the industries and transportation corridor that helped build this great nation. To read about the other Heritage Areas, please click here .

The vision of the PA Route 6 Corridor is: The Pennsylvania Route 6 Corridor offers a broad range of employment and entrepreneurial opportunities and exceptional experiences. Public and private infrastructure make the corridor accessible and provide economic opportunities for strengthening communities while enhancing natural, cultural, scenic, recreational, and historical resources.

A strategic, unified partnership guides the management of these resources, preserving and enhancing the Pennsylvania Route 6 heritage and quality of life throughout the corridor.

THE PA ROUTE 6 HERITAGE CORPORATION

The PA Route 6 Heritage Corporation, a 501(c3) corporation, was established in 2003 to manage the PA Route 6 Heritage Corridor and to implement the Management Action Plan and other planning efforts along the corridor. Representatives from all 11 counties, the 4 heritage areas, the local development districts and other interested parties along the corridor.

Roebling Bridge - Pike County            

             

Tunkhannock Viaduct - Wyoming County 

        

 PA Route 6 - McKean County 

                                                       

  Gudgeonville Bridge - Erie County