Harrisburg Transportation

Harrisburg has always had traffic problems and mostly because of road construction. For years, it was US 322, but that's finally finished. Then it was the I-83/I-81 interchange. FINALLY, they put an express lane down the median to fix that problem. And a constant nuisance is rt 11/15 around Marysville and Enola. BUT there's a nice way around that most people don't know if they are just passing through.

If you're coming up rt 15 from Maryland and approaching Harrisburg, DO NOT exit off to keep following this highway.

Stay STRAIGHT into the city, toward the M. Harvey Taylor Bridge. Cross over it, onto Forrester.

Take Forrester to the end, turn L onto 7th and immediately right onto Herr St.

At the stoplight on Herr, take a L onto Cameron. This will put you onto 322W heading toward State College. Or you can get onto 81N and S to 83S to 283, the airport and turnpike

322 is 4 lane divided, 55mph highway where NO ONE drives less than 80mph. No stoplights, no reduced speed zones.

You'll cross over the Duncannon Bridge and see the exit shortly thereafter for 11/15 N (Selinsgrove) where you'll hook back up with it.

This avoids ALL congestion--the city is never crowded and it saves about 20 mins at the very least.

(Rt 11/15 is the most convenient way to get from the DC area or points south up to central PA and central NY state...pretty heavily traveled road.)