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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. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
An I-176 shield shortly appears. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
The highway curves wide left up ahead. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
Green Hills and Reading, the latter I-176's northern terminus, are a respective 7 and 14 miles away. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
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. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
The right lane is preparing to end. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
Rocks line either side of the highway as it goes slightly uphill. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
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. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
There are yield signs as traffic merges with that coming from I-76, at left. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
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. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
This part of the Interstate is a deer watch area. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
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. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
The speed limit has increased to 65 miles per hour. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
The median widens just before the highway reaches its mile marker 3. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
Then, it enters Robeson Township. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
The next sign warns of falling rock in the vicinity. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
I-176 is a dedicated Persian Gulf War Veterans Memorial Highway. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
The Interstate reaches mile marker 4 along a straight alignment. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
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. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
Deer are a designated hazard on I-176 for essentially the remainder of its length. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
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. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
The Interstate then proceeds over Westley Road. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
The highway passes by mile marker 6.7 prior to the exit. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
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. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
I-176 is also dedicated to veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars of the 2000s-10s. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
The northbound iteration of exit 7 sits in the distance. On this sign, the exit arrow is obscured by vegetation. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
The offramp from northbound I-176 to PA 10 is short and has a hard-right turn. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
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. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
These ramps are followed by an I-176 shield. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
The Interstate now crosses over PA 10 beside the Green Hills Lake. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
Shillington, Reading and Birdsboro are 6, 7 and 8 miles away. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
Two-tenths of a mile later, the Interstate enters Cumru Township. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
I-176 reaches its north end at U.S. Route 422 in 2½ miles. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
Exit 10, Pennsylvania Route 724 toward Shillington and Birdsboro, is 1½ miles away. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
The highway starts downhill with posted 55 MPH speed limit. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
The Interstate's end is now a mile away. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
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. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
The exit 10 gore sign. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
The highway moves left before passing over PA 724. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
The northbound carriageway then receives the onramp from PA 724. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
Traffic going west on US 422 is to be in the left lane, and eastbound traffic in the right lane. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
An "END I-176" shield sits at right prior to the split of the ramps to US 422. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
This is the Interstate's final overhead sign assembly. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
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. Photo taken 07-14-2024.
The ramp to US 422 west crosses over the U.S. highway here before curving sharply left. Photo taken 07-14-2024.