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Interstate 176 north
In the Morgantown area of Caernarvon Township, Berks County in Pennsylvania, a ramp from Pennsylvania Route 23 marks the beginning of Interstate 176, with speed limit 55 miles per hour. (7-14-2024)
An I-176 shield shortly appears. (7-14-2024)
The highway curves wide left up ahead. (7-14-2024)
Green Hills and Reading, the latter I-176's northern terminus, are a respective 7 and 14 miles away. (7-14-2024)
Then, the highway proceeds over its parent, Interstate 76, which spends nearly all of its length in Pennsylvania as the mainline Pennsylvania Turnpike, save for the Schuylkill Expressway in Philadelphia. (7-14-2024)
The right lane is preparing to end. (7-14-2024)
Rocks line either side of the highway as it goes slightly uphill. (7-14-2024)
As the roadway becomes one lane, a separate leg of the Interstate beginning just to the east at the Morgantown interchange of the Turnpike crosses overhead. (7-14-2024)
There are yield signs as traffic merges with that coming from I-76, at left. (7-14-2024)
The two northbound I-176s are now one. Officially the Morgantown Expressway, I-176 acts as an 11-mile link between the Turnpike mainline and the immediate Reading area, via the US 422 corridor. (7-14-2024)
This part of the Interstate is a deer watch area. (7-14-2024)
At Shilo Road's crossing of the highway is a sign bearing an AM radio frequency for drivers to tune to when the flashers are activated. (7-14-2024)
The speed limit has increased to 65 miles per hour. (7-14-2024)
The median widens just before the highway reaches its mile marker 3. (7-14-2024)
Then, it enters Robeson Township. (7-14-2024)
The next sign warns of falling rock in the vicinity. (7-14-2024)
I-176 is a dedicated Persian Gulf War Veterans Memorial Highway. (7-14-2024)
The Interstate reaches mile marker 4 along a straight alignment. (7-14-2024)
Next, Alleghenyville Road crosses over the highway along with a concurrent section of the Horse-Shoe Trail, which links Valley Forge to the east with the Appalachian Trail to the west. (7-14-2024)
Deer are a designated hazard on I-176 for essentially the remainder of its length. (7-14-2024)
Exit 7, a right-in/right-out leading to Pennsylvania Route 10 and also serving Pennsylvania Route 568 and Green Hills, is two miles from this sign. (7-14-2024)
The Interstate then proceeds over Westley Road. (7-14-2024)
The highway passes by mile marker 6.7 prior to the exit. (7-14-2024)
Approaching the exit, the Interstate passes over PA 568 (Kurtz Mill Road). To the southwest, it leads to Maple Grove Raceway, one of numerous acclaimed sprint car and modified dirt auto racing short tracks in Pennsylvania. (7-14-2024)
I-176 is also dedicated to veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars of the 2000s-10s. (7-14-2024)
The northbound iteration of exit 7 sits in the distance. On this sign, the exit arrow is obscured by vegetation. (7-14-2024)
The offramp from northbound I-176 to PA 10 is short and has a hard-right turn. (7-14-2024)
The onramp from PA 10 enters at right. PA 10 (Morgantown Road), which begins in the borough of Oxford in Chester County well to the south, is the local feeder parallel to I-176. (7-14-2024)
These ramps are followed by an I-176 shield. (7-14-2024)
The Interstate now crosses over PA 10 beside the Green Hills Lake. (7-14-2024)
Shillington, Reading and Birdsboro are 6, 7 and 8 miles away. (7-14-2024)
Two-tenths of a mile later, the Interstate enters Cumru Township. (7-14-2024)
I-176 reaches its north end at U.S. Route 422 in 2½ miles. (7-14-2024)
Exit 10, Pennsylvania Route 724 toward Shillington and Birdsboro, is 1½ miles away. (7-14-2024)
The highway starts downhill with posted 55 MPH speed limit. (7-14-2024)
The Interstate's end is now a mile away. (7-14-2024)
Exit 10 sits just beyond a righthand curve. The exchange with US 422 is exit 11 (and formerly exit 4 under the state's old sequential numbering). US 422 has control cities of Reading and Pottstown. (7-14-2024)
The exit 10 gore sign. (7-14-2024)
The highway moves left before passing over PA 724. (7-14-2024)
The northbound carriageway then receives the onramp from PA 724. (7-14-2024)
Traffic going west on US 422 is to be in the left lane, and eastbound traffic in the right lane. (7-14-2024)
An "END I-176" shield sits at right prior to the split of the ramps to US 422. (7-14-2024)
This is the Interstate's final overhead sign assembly. (7-14-2024)
The exit 11A gore sign. From here, US 422 winds its way along the Schuylkill River via the south side of Pottstown to its east end at King of Prussia in Montgomery County, at an interchange complex that involves the Pennsylvania Turnpike and U.S. Route 202. (7-14-2024)
The ramp to US 422 west crosses over the U.S. highway here before curving sharply left. (7-14-2024)