page_title: U.S. Route 6
section_title: Pennsylvania
hierarchical_section_title: U.S. Route 6 / Route description / Pennsylvania
caption_attribution_description: English: Scattered houses appear along U.S. Route 6 at Ansonia in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The highway curves over Marsh Creek and runs along the base of a highland in the Tioga State Forest.
context_page_description: U.S. Route 6, also called the Grand Army of the Republic Highway, honoring the American Civil War veterans association, is a main route of the U.S. Highway system. While it currently runs east-northeast from Bishop, California, to Provincetown, Massachusetts, the route has been modified several times. The highway's longest-lasting routing, from 1936 to 1964, had its western terminus at Long Beach, California. During this time, US 6 was the longest highway in the country.
  In 1964, the state of California renumbered its highways, and most of the route within California was transferred to other highways. This dropped the highway's length below that of US 20, making it the second longest U.S. Highway in the country.
  US 6 is a diagonal route, whose number is out of sequence with the rest of the U.S. Highway grid in the western US. When it was designated in 1926, US 6 only ran east of Erie, Pennsylvania. Subsequent extensions, largely replacing the former U.S. Route 32 and US 38, have taken it south of US 30 at Joliet, Illinois, US 40 near Denver, Colorado, US 50 at Ely, Nevada, and even US 70 near Los Angeles, California, due to its north–south alignment in that state.
context_section_description: US 6 runs for 394 miles (634 km) in Pennsylvania between its entrance point 20 miles (32 km) west of Meadville and its exit at Matamoras. From the Ohio border to US 322 in Conneaut Lake, the route runs in a southeasterly direction. US 6 then joins US 322 and heads east to Meadville, picking up US 19 west of the city. South of downtown, US 322 splits from the concurrency while US 6 and US 19 remain concurrent through Meadville. The two routes continue northward to Mill Village, where US 6 and US 19 split at a junction with US 6N.
  For the remainder of its routing in Pennsylvania, US 6 runs roughly parallel to the New York-Pennsylvania border. Along the way, US 6 is concurrent with US 62 for a short distance near Warren. US 11 joins US 6 from the north in Factoryville. They run concurrently to Scranton, where US 11 continues south and US 6 east. At Milford, US 6 meets US 209. The two routes embark to the northeast, crossing the Delaware River from Matamoras to Port Jervis, New York.
caption: US 6 in Ansonia, PA near Tioga State Forest
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