A pair of northbound embossed signs, first in Nesquehoning, and then on a side street in Packerton; by the time you get to Packerton, the northbound roadway is facing due south.


Less old, at the stop sign and then all the way through Lehighton at PA 443, where US 209 turns to cross the bridge into Weissport.


The only button copy in Lehighton (prove me wrong), facing nearly due north on Hoffman Boulevard. US 209 in PA is mostly east-west, so when it has to cross a mountain range, like here, it ends up going in all sorts of crazy directions.


Just west of PA 33 as US 209 gears up to become a freeway (don't believe the maps, it IS a freeway right on up to I-80). These photos were all taken northbound, but the last one is over the shoulder and thus on the southbound roadway.


NB on US, not PA, 209 where it meets US 206. As you can see, once upon a time US 206 continued northward in a multiplex, ending at its parent US 6. Now, 206 ends here, and only these old signs still show the old way. At some point in the past, the toll on the Milford (PA)-Montague (NJ) bridge was obviously moved from bidirection to northbound-only.


This is on the same gantry as the last NB sign above, with extra-buttony goodness. Click to see a twilight shot with a high degree of camera flash that really brings out the best in the sign.


Finally, US 206 NB on the PA-side bridge approach, just past the tollbooth.


Now, wait a minute, which is it? I do know it's not the narrow digits in that US 209 shield. And if I reread the first caption on this page, I think I have my answer. These are southbound heading away from US 6.

Onto US 6 and the US 6/209 multiplex
Onto Business US 209 (former US 209)

Follow US 209 into New York
To the Penna Turnpike (Northeast Extension), I-476
Follow US 206 into New Jersey
US 209 on Jeff Kitsko's pahighways.com
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