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Interstate 84 (Pennsylvania–Massachusetts)

Interstate 84 marker

Interstate 84
Route information
Length: 232.39 mi (374.00 km)
Existed: 1971 (1971) – present
Major junctions
West end: I-81 / I-380 / US 6 in Dunmore, PA
 
East end: I‑90 / Mass Pike in Sturbridge, MA
Location
States: Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts
Highway system

Interstate 86
Location: East Hartford, CT - Sturbridge, MA
Length: 38.97 mi (62.72 km)
Existed: 1968–1984
History:
  • Re-designated as I-84 in 1984

Interstate 84 marker

Interstate 84 (I-84) is an Interstate Highway in the United States with two non- sections. This eastern section extends from Dunmore, Pennsylvania, (near Scranton) at an interchange with I-81 east to Sturbridge, Massachusetts, at an interchange with the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90). I-84 has distance-based exit numbering in Pennsylvania. Otherwise, exit numbers are roughly sequential. Another highway named I-84 is located in the northwestern United States.

Interstate 84 starts in Pennsylvania at Interstate 81 in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, a suburb east of Scranton. After two miles (3 km), I-84 interchanges with Interstate 380, with I-380 going southeast through the Poconos and I-84 continuing almost due east into Wayne and Pike counties. The Pennsylvania section is the only segment of I-84 that uses mile-based exit numbers; it began replacing sequential numbers in 2001.

This section of Pennsylvania is very lightly populated, and there are no major settlements on or near I-84, although it offers access to popular outdoor recreation areas such as Lake Wallenpaupack and Promised Land State Park. Its right-of-way is very wide, with a large median strip between the two roadways as it passes through densely wooded country, except for the swampy areas in southern Wayne County. The only development along Pennsylvania's section of I-84 is where US 6 and 209 start to parallel closely and form a commercial strip just south of Matamoras, just west of the Delaware River. I-84 reaches its highest elevation in Pennsylvania and in the east just west of exit 8 at 1800 feet.


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