PA 23 doesn't exist as a freeway, and if it did, it wouldn't be called the Goat Path Expressway, but rather the Lancaster-Norristown Expressway. PennDOT is still keeping the plans on the table, since it still owns the right-of-way, but it'll have to kick some particularly nasty cows off of their preferred pasture to do so. Just like US 202 is going to be completed around Doylestown, PA 23 might be a Super-2, or a parkway, or even the originally planned and fully graded freeway (all the overpasses are in place, too). It would be completed as far as the ROW is purchased, out to PA 772 and then jogging back to its current surface alignment. Before you see the photos of this multi-mile well-graded pasture, I would like to thank Scott Colbert and Lou Corsaro for each submitting a full set of photos for this page, even though I accidentally deleted Lou's and have now mostly replaced Scott's with my own.
Photos below are on 23 itself. The Goat Path is linked at the bottom of this page.


Eastbound through New Holland. I can't tell how old the tiny Turnpike trailblazers are, but they don't seem to be all that old, just unique.


Eastbound and looking north, the unparalleled charm of Pennsylvania Dutch Country at sunset.


What happens when I take an over-the-shoulder photo into the setting sun.


PA 23 EB/PA 10 NB in Morgantown. The Pennsylvania Turnpike gets the wrong-color shield in the first photo, and then gets a poorly laid-out trailblazer in the second photo.

The Goat Path Expressway

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