Tour 2 Introduction

Milford--Stroudsburg--Lansford--Tamaqua--Pottsville--Millersburg; 143.4 in. US 209.

Concrete roadbed. The road is paralleled by the Delaware Valley R.R. between Bushkill and Stroudsburg; by the Lehigh Valley R.R. between Lehighton and Mauch Chunk; by the Jersey Central R.R. between Lehighton and Tamaqua; by the Lehigh & New l.nland R.R. between Mauch Chunk and Tamaqua; by the Reading R-. between 'Tamaqua and Lykens; and by the Pennsylvania R.R. between Lykens and Millersburg. Usual accommodations.

US 209 in its southwest course between the Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers traverses two sharply contrasted regions--the Poconos, with its peaks, gorges, lakes, streams, woods, and fields; and the southern field of the anthracite belt, with its collieries, culm banks, dismal towns, tumble-down shacks, and all the grim marks of a provident earth despoiled by improvident man. Near its western terminus US 209 enters a prosperous farming section.