Pennsylvania Route 184

PA Route 184
Route information
Maintained by PennDOT
Length:	9.684 mi[1] (15.585 km)
Existed:	1928 – present
Major junctions
West end:	PA 287 in Brookside
	US 15 in Cogan House Township
East end:	Steam Mill Road in Cogan House Township
Location
Counties:	Lycoming
Highway system
Pennsylvania State Route System Interstate US State Scenic Byways Legislative ← PA 183 PA 185 →

Pennsylvania Route 184 (designated by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation as SR 184) is an 9.68-mile-long (15.58 km) state highway located in Lycoming county in Pennsylvania. The western terminus is at Route 287 in Brookside. The eastern terminus is at Steam Mill Road, just after an interchange with U.S. Route 15 in Steam Valley, a hamlet of Cogan House Township. The route was first designated as a spur from Route 84 in Brookside to U.S. Route 15 via Cogan House Road. (Route 84 was renumbered to Route 287 in 1961.^[2]) Construction is currently underway on US 15 to upgrade several miles each way from its intersection with Route 184 to interstate standards. This includes a new interchange with Route 184.

Route description

Route 184 heading westbound through Beech Grove

Route 184 begins at an intersection with Route 287 in the hamlet of Brookside. The route progresses to the northeast, heading through the rural areas of Cogan House Township. Route 184 continuously winds through the woods before forming a short eastward pattern after the intersection with Corgi Cabin Lane. The highway clears of the woods and enters fields. There, the route turns to the northeast at an intersection with Harman Road, a dead-end street to a local farm. Route 184 passes a large patch of woods to the east and enters the hamlet of White Pine. In White Pine, the highway passes some residences and intersects with Lick Run Road, where the route makes an abrupt turn to the east through farms. At the intersection with Campbell Road, Route 184 turns to the north along the right-of-way of Campbell Road, while the original eastward route continues as Cogan House Road. Farms continue as the scenery for a couple miles as the highway heads north into the hamlet of Beech Grove. In Beech Grove, Route 184 makes several curves before heading eastward until the intersection with Taylor Road, where the highway turns to the northeast and enters the hamlet of Steam Valley. Through Steam Valley, Route 184 returns to the woods and starts passing numerous residences before entering the interchange with U.S. Route 15 (the Appalachian Thruway). Midway through the interchange, the road reaches the northbound on-off ramps, where Route 184 continues north past a parking lot and terminates at Steam Mill Road.^[3][4]

History

The interchange of Route 184 and Route 15 in Steam Valley

The original intersection between Route 184 and Route 15 as seen in 2007.

The completed interchange facing the interchange from Route 184 in 2011.

Route 184 was first designated in 1928 on a different alignment between the intersection with its parent route, Route 84 in Brookside to Campbell Road. The route followed the current-day alignment of Cogan House Road.^[5] Four years later, Route 184 was paved from Brookside to Campbell Road and from the intersection with Edwards Road to U.S. Route 15 in Steam Valley.^[6] In 1989, the route was realigned onto its current alignment through Beech Grove with that was repaved by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.^[7]

In the winter of 2007, the Department of Transportation announced the construction of the new interchange between Route 15 and Route 184, as part of the construction to upgrade Route 15 into an interstate highway. The total cost for the portion from Trout Run to Buttonwood was to be $71 million (2007 USD).^[8] Early plans were to build an interchange south of Route 184, which would mean that southbound travelers would have to backtrack to access local businesses. Per a suggestion by the Fry family, owners of a local restaurant, the design was changed to realign Route 184 to the north and build a full interchange. As a result, a few homes belonging to members of the Fry family would be in the way of the new roadways, and the buildings were moved to nearby family-owned land.^[9] The project was completed in the fall of 2009 with a ribbon cutting ceremony on the southbound lanes.^[10]

Major intersections

The entire route is in Cogan House Township, Lycoming County.

mi[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
0.000	0.000	PA 287 – Salladasburg, Wellsboro
9.564	15.392	US 15 – Williamsport, Mansfield	Interchange
9.684	15.585	Steam Mill Road
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

• U.S. Roads portal
• Pennsylvania portal

References

1. Bureau of Maintenance and Operations (January 2015). Roadway Management System Straight Line Diagrams (Report) (2015 ed.). Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
   • Lycoming County (PDF)
2. Pennsylvania (Map). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Department of Highways. 1961.
3. Microsoft; Nokia (May 20, 2011). "Overview map of Pennsylvania Route 184" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved May 20, 2011.
4. Lycoming County Type-10 GHSN map (PDF) (Map). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. 2011. Retrieved September 18, 2011.
5. Map Showing Pennsylvania State Highways (Map). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Department of Highways. 1928.
6. Map Showing Pennsylvania State Highways (Map). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Department of Highways. 1932.
7. Pennsylvania (Map). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. 1989.
8. "Milemarker - Winter 2007" (PDF). Route 15 Coalition. Retrieved May 20, 2011.
9. Kitsko, Jeffrey J. (2011). "U.S. Route 15". Pennsylvania Highways. Retrieved May 20, 2011.
10. "Route 15 southbound lanes opened". The Wellsboro Gazette. November 18, 2009. Retrieved May 20, 2011.

External links

Route map: Bing / Google

• Kitsko, Jeffrey J. (2016). "PA 184". Pennsylvania Highways.