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Old 07-12-2014, 07:08 PM
 
Location: Williamsport PA
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I've been driving along Interstate 80 often this summer to explore the Poconos. It would help me to judge the distance I've traveled if I could identify a few more landmarks. For example, what is that tall mountain that looms up around mile 250? I think it is called Sugarloaf Mountain but I'm not sure.

And what's the story with the Lions Gate Luxury Apartments near Bloomsburg? That huge apartment complex out in the middle of nowhere looks hideous. According to their web site it is campus housing for Bloomsburg University.
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Old 07-13-2014, 03:57 AM
 
Location: Swiftwater, PA
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It would help me to judge the distance I've traveled if I could identify a few more landmarks.
Look at the mile markers like truckers do. Also; all of our exits are now marked by the appropriate mile marker. Our mile markers on I-80 start off at the Ohio border and end at the New Jersey border (314 miles from Ohio).

Have a safe trip or happy trucking!
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Old 07-13-2014, 04:07 AM
 
Location: On the Chesapeake
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I've been driving along Interstate 80 often this summer to explore the Poconos. It would help me to judge the distance I've traveled if I could identify a few more landmarks. For example, what is that tall mountain that looms up around mile 250? I think it is called Sugarloaf Mountain but I'm not sure.

And what's the story with the Lions Gate Luxury Apartments near Bloomsburg? That huge apartment complex out in the middle of nowhere looks hideous. According to their web site it is campus housing for Bloomsburg University.
If that's what it says on the website then that's likely what it is. A lot of the state colleges ran out of room in the towns and had to buy property out in the surrounding Township to handle student housing. Slippery Rock did the same thing. Clarion, on the other hand, just kept condemning property adjacent to campus.

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Look at the mile markers like truckers do. Also; all of our exits are now marked by the appropriate mile marker. Our mile markers on I-80 start off at the Ohio border and end at the New Jersey border (314 miles from Ohio).

Have a safe trip or happy trucking!
I miss having the oddball exit numbers. Confused the hell out of people from out of state.
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Old 07-13-2014, 05:20 AM
 
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Mile Run, the exit (199) to nowhere
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Old 07-13-2014, 11:39 AM
 
Location: The canyon (with my pistols and knife)
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Mile Run, the exit (199) to nowhere
The ramps are paved, but the road they intersect is not.

And the blue sign just before the exit reads "NO SERVICES."
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Old 07-13-2014, 10:29 PM
 
Location: Philaburbia
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Look at the mile markers like truckers do. Also; all of our exits are now marked by the appropriate mile marker.
That only took 30 years to get it right, eh? Nothin' like progress ...

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Mile Run, the exit (199) to nowhere
I've been wanting to exit just to see what's there - or what's not there.

Why does this exit exist?
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Old 07-14-2014, 05:41 AM
 
Location: Swiftwater, PA
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That only took 30 years to get it right, eh? Nothin' like progress ...
Hey; at least we finally got it right! We are a little slow compared to Ohio and some of the other states.
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Old 07-14-2014, 09:03 AM
 
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Why does this exit exist?
I have wondered whether it's due to some rule of needing an exit every so often (not in effect for the Turnpike, but added later); or whether it goes to the hunting camp of someone who was politically connected. As stated by another post there are no paved approaches to this exit other than the interstate itself.
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Old 07-14-2014, 09:14 AM
 
Location: On the Chesapeake
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An I80 story:

This was 40 years ago, anyway, and I was working the midnight shift at Guthrie's Arco at Exit 13 Brookville. This was when you still got your gas pumped for you.

A car pulled in (they were from Ohio) going east, got gas, used the restroom, etc. and the driver asked me if they were out of the mountains yet.
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Old 07-14-2014, 12:24 PM
 
Location: The canyon (with my pistols and knife)
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That only took 30 years to get it right, eh? Nothin' like progress ...
Yep, the year after Georgia did, and the year before Florida did. Most states in the Northeast still use sequential numbering.
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