The Delaware and Lehigh National and State Heritage Corridor spans more than 150 miles across five Pennsylvania counties, linking people, places, and events that helped shape the nation through the remains of canals and railroads from Northeastern Pennsylvania’s prosperous coal age. Its northern reach includes Luzerne County coal towns and diverse cities, while Carbon County offers scenery, outdoor recreation, and reminders of the coal and lumber industries, including towns, a coal museum, and an underground mine. The Lehigh Valley brings together rolling hills, rivers, farms, covered bridges, Victorian townhouses, Moravian heritage, and the history of steel and cement industries, while Bucks County along the Delaware River Scenic Drive features pastoral landscapes, landmarks from the struggle for independence, and an artist’s community among Colonial farmsteads. Across the corridor, trails, waterways, historic sites, and stories of lumberjacks, coal miners, lock tenders, canalers, and railroaders preserve a distinctive American landscape shaped by immigration, industry, transportation, and conservation.
