Great Lakes Seaway Trail - Pennsylvania
Great Lakes Seaway Trail - Pennsylvania is a National Scenic Byway in Pennsylvania. Within Pennsylvania it covers roughly 55 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Great Lakes Seaway Trail - Pennsylvania with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
Pennsylvania's slice of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail covers roughly 45 miles of Lake Erie shoreline. It's a small but scenic corner of a 518-mile National Scenic Byway that runs mostly through New York state. The route crosses Pennsylvania's Erie County corner along Route 20 and Route 5, entering from Ohio and following the Lake Erie shore past some of the state's most productive vineyards and a string of small lakefront communities. New York's stretch became one of the country's first National Scenic Byways in 1996; Pennsylvania's connecting segment was added in 2005, tying the two states' Great Lakes shorelines into one continuous federal byway. In Erie, the trail passes the Bayfront District, the historic West Sixth Street neighborhood, the Erie Maritime Museum, and Presque Isle State Park, a sandy peninsula that is one of Pennsylvania's most visited natural areas. The lake views and wine country make this a genuinely different drive from Pennsylvania's inland mountain byways.
- ~45 miles of PA's Lake Erie shoreline
- Route 20 & Route 5, Erie County
- Part of the 518-mile Great Lakes Seaway Trail
- National Scenic Byway since 1996 (PA added 2005)
- Presque Isle State Park
- Erie Maritime Museum & Bayfront District
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What is a National Scenic Byway?
National Scenic Byways are roads recognized at the federal level for at least one outstanding quality — scenic, natural, historic, cultural, archaeological or recreational — that gives travelers a reason to seek them out rather than just pass through.