Pennsylvania Route 534 is an 23.5-mile-long (37.8 km) state highway located in Monroe and Carbon counties in Pennsylvania. The western terminus is at PA 940 in East Side. The eastern terminus is at U.S. Route 209 in the community of Kresgeville in Polk Township. PA 534 runs northwest-southeast through forested areas of the Pocono Mountains as a two-lane undivided road. The route has an interchange with Interstate 80 (I-80) near East Side before it passes through Hickory Run State Park. PA 534 crosses PA 903 near Albrightsville and continues south to US 209. The roadway was paved in the 1930s and received the PA 534 designation in the 1960s.
PA 534 through Hickory Run State Park
PA 534 westbound in Polk Township
Carbon County, Pennsylvania
Carbon County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 64,749. The county is part of the Northeast Pennsylvania region of the state.
Clockwise from top left: Beltzville State Park, Beltzville Lake, Bowmanstown, and Packerton
Corporate headquarters of Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company in Mauch Chunk, now Jim Thorpe; the company, which was founded in 1822 and dissolved in 1985, spearheaded the American Industrial Revolution, was founded in 1822 and dissolved in 1986.
A state historical marker in Jim Thorpe
The Lehigh River flowing through Riverview Park in Palmerton in March 2010
