The Delaware and Lehigh National and State Heritage Corridor brings together people, places, and events that helped shape the nation across five Pennsylvania counties. Stretching more than 150 miles, it is anchored by canals and railroads from northeastern Pennsylvania’s prosperous coal age and offers trails, waterways, and historic sites tied to lumberjacks, coal miners, lock tenders, canalers, and railroaders. In its northern reach, Luzerne County features coal towns, vibrant cities, ethnic diversity, and arts and educational institutions. Carbon County offers dramatic scenery, outdoor recreation, and reminders of the coal and lumber industries, along with towns, a coal museum, and an underground mine. The Lehigh Valley combines rolling hills, winding rivers, farms, covered bridges, Victorian townhouses, Moravian heritage, and the history of steel and cement industries. Farther south, Bucks County along the Delaware River Scenic Drive includes pastoral landscapes, places connected to the struggle for independence, an artist’s community, and Colonial farmsteads, forming a distinctive American landscape where heritage, trails, and waterways remain central.
