Breezewood, Pennsylvania
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Breezewood is an unincorporated town in East Providence Township, Bedford County in south-central Pennsylvania, United States.
The stretch of U.S. Route 30 in Breezewood, Pennsylvania is one of the few gaps in the Interstate Highway System. A portion of I-70 uses this surface street to connect the untolled interstate highway with the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
I-70/I-76 Interchange
View east along the non-freeway portion of I-70 and west along US 30 in Breezewood, with numerous businesses lining the road
Oblique air photo of Breezewood and vicinity, facing northeast, and showing Interstate 70, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, U.S. Route 30, and Rays Hill. The Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike can also be seen paralleling the Turnpike northeast of Breezewood.
The Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike is the common name of a 13-mile (21 km) stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike that was bypassed in 1968 when a modern stretch opened to ease traffic congestion in the tunnels. In this case, the Sideling Hill Tunnel and Rays Hill Tunnel were bypassed, as was one of the Turnpike's travel plazas. The bypass is located just east of the heavily congested Breezewood interchange for Interstate 70 (I-70) eastbound at what is now I-76 exit 161. The section of the turnpike was at one time part of the South Pennsylvania Railroad.
Nature is starting to reclaim parts of the original 1940s roadway.
Eastern portal of the Sideling Hill Tunnel
Western portal of the Rays Hill Tunnel
Test rumble strips from the SNAP project, just outside the western portal of the Rays Hill Tunnel