Pennsylvania

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Pennsylvania is a geographically diverse state with a Great Lake on one shore and a major seaport on the other. The climate of Pennsylvania is pleasant, with cold, often snowy winters, mild to hot, humid summers, gorgeous green springtimes, and spectacular displays of colorful autumn foliage. Pennsylvania hosts a number of vital cities, from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia. The city of Philadelphia, the state's largest city, houses the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, two major national historical landmarks. The interior of the state has a number of subcultures worth exploring, including the famous Amish countryside, a religious community. Pennsylvania is also home to a diverse group of people, with ethnic enclaves of black and Hispanic populations in its major cities. The culture also differs from region to region, with the eastern half of the state around the city of Philadelphia being largely of Mid-Atlantic character, and the western half, including around the city of Pittsburgh, having a more Midwestern character. The Appalachian regions have a culture akin to that of West Virginia in the South. Pennsylvania is also diverse in that the south central and southeastern parts of the state are urban and densely populated, while much of the rest of the state is rural and/or mountainous. Pennsylvania is a swing state in presidential elections. The state is bordered by New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, and Ohio. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are the state's two largest cities followed by Allentown, Reading, and Erie. Other cities include Bethlehem, Scranton, Lancaster and Harrisburg (the state capital). Pennsylvania was the second state established in the nation after Delaware.

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如何抵達

By car Pennsylvania is a densely populous state in a densely populous part of the country, with many roads in and out. Interstate highways lead most traffic into the state. Major national interstate highways leading to Pennsylvania include I-95 S from New England, I-95 N from the American South, and I-70 E, I-80 E & I-90 E from the American West and Midwest. Specifically, clockwise from north of Harrisburg:

from Montreal & Ottawa to Scranton and Harrisburg: I-81 S. from Boston to Scranton: I-90 W to I-84 W. from Boston to the Lehigh Valley and Harrisburg: I-84 W to I-91 S to I-95 S to I-287 W to I-78 W. from Boston to Philadelphia: I-84 W to I-91 S to I-95 S. from New York City to Scranton: I-80 W. from New York City to the Lehigh Valley and Harrisburg: I-78 W. from New York City to Philadelphia: I-95 S. from Baltimore to Philadelphia: I-95 N. from Baltimore to Harrisburg: I-83 N. from Baltimore to Pittsburgh: I-70 W. from Washington, DC to Philadelphia: I-95 N. from Washington, DC to Harrisburg: I-95 N to I-83 N. from Washington, DC to Pittsburgh: I-270 W to I-70 W. from West Virginia to Pittsburgh: I-79 N. from Columbus and Indianapolis to Pittsburgh and Harrisburg: I-70 E. from Cleveland to Pittsburgh: It's close, but complicated. from Cleveland and Chicago to Erie: I-90 E. from Toronto and Buffalo to Erie: I- 90 W. Also, U.S. Routes 219, 15, and 220 (soon to be I-99) all enter the state at alternative points from both the north and south. State-operated Welcome Centers and Comfort Facilities are found just inside the borders at all major crossings into Pennsylvania.

By train Amtrak offers a total of nine different passenger train lines in or across the state of Pennsylvania. Most services run through 30th Street Station in Philadelphia including the Acela Express and Northeast Regional trains between Boston, New York and Washington, as well as long-distance trains such as the Vermonter to and from Vermont and Silver Service trains to and from Florida.

當地交通

By bus Information on Pennsylvania transit can be found here.

By car In addition to the Interstate highways that enter Pennsylvania and travel throughout:

The Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-76) is a toll freeway that is the main east-west route between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, with state capital Harrisburg along the way. Take note of the four tunnels through Appalachian ridges. The Turnpike's "Northeast Extension" (I-476, also toll) reaches north from Philadelphia to Allentown and Scranton. Another tunnel is found along it. U.S. Route 322 travels diagonally from the Philadelphia area to just below Erie. Many portions have been converted to freeway, but numerous small towns still lie directly on the way. U.S. Route 22 is an alternative, more mountainous path west through Altoona and Johnstown to Pittsburgh. U.S. Route 6 is a long, rural, scenic drive across Pennsylvania's "Northern Tier". Go west from the northern Poconos through the valley of Scranton and its suburbs, follow the Susquehanna River through the "Endless Mountains", spend three hours through state and national forest land, and end near Lake Erie. U.S Route 30, also named the Lincoln Highway, is a section of the first coast-to-coast paved road in the United States. The highway is especially nice in the central part of Pennsylvania where it passes agricultural areas and is the main street of many small historic towns. Many of these towns have attempted to capitalize on their location on the Lincoln Highway by preserving original structures and opening them as visitors' centers. Interstate 80 runs east and west throughout the northern area of the state. There also exists a wide network of state highways and municipal roads that reach into the mostly forested and farmed rural areas. The more mountainous of these areas should be traversed with caution by visitors as they can be drastically winding, narrow, or steep (or all three!) in parts. Speed limit signs are almost exclusively posted in miles per hou

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There is quite a lot to see in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia is a historic city with a neighborhood full of mostly 18th- and early 19th-century buildings downtown, and was the nation's capital before Washington, D.C. was constructed, with historical buildings to match. It also has a world-class art museum and Fairmount Park, a huge park designed in great part by Vaux and Olmsted, who also designed Central Park in New York, and is in general a great city. On the other side of the state, Pittsburgh has a great skyline, world-class art and science museums including the Carnegie Museum which houses the best dinosaur collection in the world with holotypes for many dinosaurs including Tyrannosaurus Rex, and some of the most beautiful university buildings in the country, and its geographic position at the confluence of three rivers, with hills rising steeply from their banks, is quite striking. Drake Wells and surrounding sites in Titusville house the remnants of where oil was first struck in the nation and where the world's first oil drill was invented. Closer to the center of the state, Harrisburg is a much smaller city with some pleasant buildings and a great Capitol with a park next to it. Not far from there is t