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'''Breezewood''' is an [[Unincorporated area|unincorporated town]] in [[East Providence Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania]], United States. Along a traditional pathway for [[Native Americans of the United States|Native Americans]], European settlers, and British troops during colonial times, in the early 20th century, the small valley that became known as Breezewood was a popular stopping place for automobile travelers on the [[Lincoln Highway]], beginning in 1913. [[Greyhound Lines]] opened a Post House facility in the town in 1935; it closed in 2004. It has about 200 residents.

In 1940, Breezewood was designated exit 6 on the just-opened [[Pennsylvania Turnpike]]. In the 1960s, Breezewood became the junction of the Turnpike and the new [[Interstate 70 in Pennsylvania|Interstate 70]]. Later renumbered exit 12, it is now exit 161 on the Turnpike following a change to mileage-based exit numbering. Breezewood has been labeled a "[[tourist trap]]" and choke point because traffic between I-70 and the Turnpike, which carries I-70 westward from Breezewood, is routed along surface streets lined with gas stations, hotels, restaurants, and traffic lights, rather than directly via a freeway-to-freeway junction.<ref name=nyt2017/> This segment of I-70 is one of the [[List of gaps in Interstate Highways#Freeway gaps|few parts]] of the [[Interstate Highway System]] that is not a [[controlled-access highway]].

== History ==
The community that became known as Breezewood has a long history of serving cross-country travelers.<ref name=bcvb>{{cite web |title = Breezewood History |url = http://www.visitbedfordcounty.com/breezewood.html |publisher = Bedford County Visitors Bureau |access-date = December 18, 2015 }}</ref>

=== Early history ===
Before the Europeans arrived, an old trail of the [[Native Americans of the United States|Native Americans]] crossed through there. Later, in colonial times before the [[American Revolutionary War]] (1776–1781) and the [[Conestoga wagon]]s of the westbound settlers, a wagon road passed through.<ref>{{cite news |title = Breezewood Comes Alive At Night As Turnpikes' Weary Travelers Pause |first = Jack |last = Sholl |agency = Associated Press |work = The Gettysburg Times |via = Google News |date = November 14, 1969 |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SE5AAAAAIBAJ&pg=2005,4389473&dq=interchange+breezewood+-strike+-colledge&hl=en }}</ref> A British military trail was built in 1758 by General [[John Forbes (General)|John Forbes]] from Chambersburg to Pittsburgh during the [[French and Indian War]]. It was later known as the Pittsburgh Road and the Conestoga Road. Through the tiny valley was built the Chambersburg-Bedford Turnpike, a private [[toll road]] that came later.<ref name="The Lincoln Highway">{{cite web |first = Richard |last = Weingroff |url = https://highways.dot.gov/highway-history/general-highway-history/lincoln-highway |title = The Lincoln Highway |publisher = Federal Highway Administration |access-date = July 15, 2009 }}</ref>

=== South Pennsylvania Railroad ===
Late in the 19th century, leaders of the [[New York Central Railroad]] (NYC) dreamed of building an east–west railroad across southern Pennsylvania through the Breezewood area to compete with the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] (PRR). Over $10 million was spent and 26 lives lost when work on [[William H. Vanderbilt]]'s planned [[South Pennsylvania Railroad]] project was halted in 1886. Control shifted to financier [[J.P. Morgan]] and PRR interests. The potentially competing South Pennsylvania Railroad was promptly abandoned and never completed, although much grading and tunneling work had been done.<ref>{{cite web |first = Lowman S. |last = Henry |url = http://www.paturnpike.com/newsletters/summer98/page-4.htm |title = America's Tunnel Highway |publisher = Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission |date = Summer 1998 |page = 4 |access-date = July 15, 2009 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140827173809/http://www.paturnpike.com/newsletters/summer98/page-4.htm |archive-date = August 27, 2014 }}</ref>

=== Developing the community ===
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A community called [[Rays Hill, Pennsylvania|Rays Hill]] (or Nycumtown) was located just east of present-day Breezewood where a man named John Nycum had a small store. In 1836, he succeeded in establishing the Rays Hill Post Office and he served as the first Postmaster. The Rays Hill Post Office was the smallest in the country, at six feet by eight feet.<ref>{{cite news |title = Tour Pennsylvania and Maryland |work = The Washington Observer |date = July 26, 1941 |via = Google News |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eQhfAAAAIBAJ&pg=6970,5396495&dq=rays-hill+-tampa&hl=en }}</ref> On the western edge of Breezewood (or known as White Hall in the early 1800s), stands the Federal style mansion known as the Maple Lawn Inn (originally called Martin's Tavern), which opened around 1789. The 22-room building boasts 11 fireplaces, patriotic/masonic medallions, and was used as a stage coach stop and underground railroad safehouse, with a foundation several feet thick, and walls 3 to 4 bricks thick. It has been nominated to the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name=bedford>{{cite web |url = http://www.bedfordcounty.net/breezewood/index.htm |title = Breezewood, PA Pennsylvania |publisher = Bedfordcounty.net |access-date = July 15, 2009 }}</ref>

With the advent of the automobile, by the early 20th century, the area in a small valley between Rays Hill and the Maple Lawn Inn had become known locally as Breezewood. The name was applied to a repair garage built in 1937.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}} Maps published around that time locate Breezewood as the collection of buildings at the intersection of [[U.S. Route 30 in Pennsylvania|U.S. Route 30]]/Lincoln Highway and [[Interstate 70 in Pennsylvania#History|Pennsylvania Route 126]] (now North Main Street);<ref>{{cite map|publisher=[[Pennsylvania Department of Transportation|PennDOT]]|title= Bedford County Historical Type 10 Map|url=https://gis.penndot.gov/BPR_PDF_FILES/MAPS/Type_10_GHS_Historical_Scans/Bedford_1938.pdf|year=1938|accessdate=May 15, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite map |author = United States Geological Survey |author-link = United States Geological Survey |year = 1939 |title = Needmore, PA |url = https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/ht-bin/tv_browse.pl?id=3d298f946b5765c3a0b569710f3e3ca9 |type = Topographic map |series = 15 Minute Series |scale = 1:62,500 |location = Reston, Virginia |publisher = United States Geological Survey |access-date = May 15, 2023 }}</ref> [[Pennsylvania Department of Transportation]] maps still do.<ref>{{cite map|publisher=PennDOT|title= Bedford County Type 10 Map|url=https://gis.penndot.gov/BPR_PDF_FILES/Maps/GHS/ROADNAMES/Bedford_GHSN.pdf|year=2022|accessdate=May 15, 2023}}</ref>

=== 1913: Lincoln Highway, U.S. Route 30 ===
On July 1, 1913, American automotive pioneer [[Carl G. Fisher]] and other automobile enthusiasts and industry officials announced plans for the [[Lincoln Highway]], the first transcontinental paved roadway in the United States to be created specifically for motorists.<ref name=bedford /> Former U.S. President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] and [[Thomas A. Edison]], both friends of Fisher, sent checks, as well as then-current President [[Woodrow Wilson]], who has been noted as the first U.S. president to make frequent use of an automobile for what was described as stress-relief relaxation rides.

In 1919, around the end of [[World War I]], the [[U.S. Army]] undertook its first [[Transcontinental Motor Convoy]]. It followed the Lincoln Highway from [[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania]], to [[San Francisco, California]], passing through Breezewood. The trip demonstrated the potential military importance of such a roadway, as well as the need for consistency in both improvements and maintenance. One of the young Army officers was [[Dwight David Eisenhower]], then a Lt. Colonel. The convoy was memorable enough for him to include a chapter on the trip entitled "Through Darkest America With Truck and Tank," in ''At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends'' (Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1967). During [[World War II]], then-General Eisenhower was also deeply impressed with the German [[autobahn]] roadway network. Those experiences combined to convince him the need to support construction of the Interstate Highway System when he became President of the United States in 1953.<ref name="The Lincoln Highway"/> The portion of the Lincoln Highway from [[Philadelphia]] to [[Pittsburgh]] received the transcontinental [[U.S. Route 30 in Pennsylvania|U.S. Route 30]] designation, which it still bears.

=== 1940: Pennsylvania Turnpike ===
When the [[Pennsylvania Turnpike]] was built in the 1930s, the tiny eastern Bedford County locality made sure it would be served by the new highway. Breezewood is at the original exit 6 of the Turnpike, which opened on October 1, 1940. The new turnpike used much of the earlier South Pennsylvania Railroad project for its right-of-way, grading, and tunnels.

Breezewood, with a faded sign proclaiming it the "Town of Motels"<ref>{{cite news |title = 'Town of Motels' is bottleneck no longer |first = Joe |last = Grata |work = Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date = July 22, 1993 |via = Google News |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hK5RAAAAIBAJ&pg=1788,3031739&dq=robert-jubelirer+breezewood&hl=en }}</ref> and the "Traveler's Oasis", boomed after the Pennsylvania Turnpike opened, with one gas station and the first traveler's stop, the Gateway Motel and Restaurant.<ref name="post-gazette.com">{{cite news |url = http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04179/338195.stm |title = Breezewood's Post House is closing its doors |work = Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date = June 27, 2004 |access-date = July 15, 2009 }}</ref> Gateway remains open as of early 2025 as a [[truck stop]] affiliated with [[TravelCenters of America|T/A]],<ref>[http://www.tatravelcenters.com/location-details/breezewood-travel-center TravelCenters of America LLC | The one stop for all your travel needs. |]. Tatravelcenters.com. Retrieved on July 23, 2013.</ref> competing with other gas stations, hotels, restaurants, and a [[Pilot Flying J|Flying J]] franchise.

=== 1960s: Connecting the Turnpike with the new I-70 ===
[[File:Breezewood, Pennsylvania.jpg|thumb|left|Breezewood in 2006]]
Over 25 years later, when [[Interstate 70 in Pennsylvania|Interstate 70]] was built through Pennsylvania, it was co-signed with the Pennsylvania Turnpike for 86 miles, between Breezewood and [[New Stanton, Pennsylvania|New Stanton]]. The I-70 section of the Turnpike included tunnels under the eastern [[continental divide]] of the [[Allegheny Mountains]] and [[Laurel Hill (Pennsylvania)|Laurel Hill]], crossing some of Pennsylvania's most rugged terrain. The Laurel Hill Tunnel was later abandoned.

About the same time as I-70 was built, in the early and mid-1960s, a major group of improvements was made to the original turnpike. These included roadway capacity improvement along the portion shared with I-70 at the two major mountains, where traffic had been reduced to two lanes in tunnels, and a realignment of the Breezewood exit and the turnpike to the east from there.

==== Unusual I-70 alignment ====
[[File:Breezewood interchange from US 30 facing westbound.jpg|thumb|right|Turnpike access from Lincoln Highway]]
I-70 traffic uses a surface road (part of [[U.S. Route 30 in Pennsylvania|US 30]]) with [[at-grade intersection]]s to connect the [[freeway]] heading south to [[Hancock, Maryland]] with the ramp to the Pennsylvania Turnpike. According to the [[Federal Highway Administration]], the peculiar arrangement at Breezewood resulted because at the time I-70's toll-free segment was built, the state did not qualify for federal funds under the [[Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956]] to build a direct interchange, unless it agreed to cease collecting tolls on the Turnpike once the construction bonds were retired<ref name="Federal Highway Administration">{{cite web |first = Richard |last = Weingroff |date = April 7, 2009 |url = https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/tollroad.cfm |title = Why Does The Interstate System Include Toll Facilities? |work = Ask the Rambler |publisher = Federal Highway Administration |access-date = July 15, 2009 }}</ref>—a direct interchange would have meant that a westbound driver on I-70 could not choose between the toll route and a free alternative, but would be ''forced'' to enter the Turnpike. The [[Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission]] was not willing to build the interchange with its own funds, due to the expected decrease in revenue once [[Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania|I-80]] was completed through the state.<ref name="Federal Highway Administration" /> Accordingly, the state chose to build the unusual Breezewood arrangement in lieu of a direct interchange, thus qualifying for federal funds because this arrangement gave drivers the option of continuing on the untolled US 30.<ref name="Federal Highway Administration" />

Although laws have been relaxed since then, local businesses, including many traveler services like [[fast food]] restaurants, [[gas stations]] and [[motel]]s, have lobbied to keep the gap and not directly connect I-70 to the Turnpike, fearing a loss of business. In order for a bypass to be considered, Breezewood's own Bedford County must propose it, which is "just not an issue that really appears on the radar for us," Donald Schwartz, the Bedford County planning director, said in 2017.<ref name=nyt2017>{{cite news |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/us/politics/a-pennsylvania-highway-town-at-the-junction-of-politics-and-policy.html |quote = Millions of people who travel between the Mid-Atlantic and the Midwest each year fight through Breezewood, Pa., a strange gap in the Interstate System... no ramps join [I-70 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike] at their crossing. Instead, drivers travel... blocks with traffic lights and dense bazaar of gas stations, fast-food restaurants and motels... [In order] for a bypass to be considered, essentially Breezewood's own Bedford County must propose it... "It's just not an issue that really appears on the radar for us," said Donald Schwartz, the Bedford County planning director. |title = As Trump Vows Building Splurge, Famed Traffic Choke Point Offers Warning |first1 = Charlie |last1 = Savage |date = February 6, 2017 |newspaper = The New York Times |issn = 0362-4331 |access-date = August 14, 2017 }}</ref>

The short stretch of I-70 through Breezewood is one of only two locations in the U.S. where there are [[traffic light]]s on a two-digit Interstate Highway (the other being [[Interstate 78 in New Jersey|I-78]] in [[Jersey City, New Jersey]] between the Newark Bay Extension of the [[New Jersey Turnpike]] and the west portal of the [[Holland Tunnel]]). Former Pennsylvania State Senate President Pro Tempore [[Robert Jubelirer]] was not in favor of building a direct interchange between the two interstates.<ref>{{cite news |title = Dawida seeks to merge I-70, turnpike at Breezewood |first = Gary |last = Tuna |work = Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date = July 27, 1989 |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=O7RRAAAAIBAJ&pg=4854,6978383&dq=robert-jubelirer+breezewood&hl=en }}</ref>

Despite this abnormality, this is not the only area where the Pennsylvania Turnpike has had an indirect interchange with an Interstate highway due to this funding quirk, although it is the only one where an Interstate highway has had to run onto a surface street. [[Interstate 79|I-79]] in [[Cranberry Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania|Cranberry Township]]; [[Interstate 81 in Pennsylvania|I-81]] near [[Carlisle, Pennsylvania|Carlisle]]; and [[Interstate 95 in Pennsylvania|I-95]] in [[Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania|Bristol Township]] have had, for decades, no direct connection to the mainline Turnpike, with I-79 relying on [[U.S. Route 19 in Pennsylvania|U.S. Route 19]] to get onto the Turnpike and vice versa, while I-81 has had to rely on [[U.S. Route 11 in Pennsylvania|U.S. Route 11]] for Turnpike access and vice versa, and I-95 had no access to the Turnpike at all until 2018. ([[Interstate 99]], which relies on [[U.S. Route 220 in Pennsylvania|U.S. Route 220]] for Turnpike access near [[Bedford, Pennsylvania|Bedford]], was only designated in 1998.) While direct access between I-79 and the Turnpike was constructed in 2003<ref name=bct111303>{{cite news |last = Pound |first = Michael |title = Cranberry Connector now open for business |work = Beaver County Times |date = November 13, 2003 }}</ref> and [[Pennsylvania Turnpike/Interstate 95 Interchange Project|another interchange to connect I-95 with the Turnpike]] opened in 2018, the indirect access in Carlisle remains.
[[File:Abandoned PA Turnpike map.svg|thumb|right|Abandoned Turnpike (red) in relation to Breezewood (at left)]]

In 2024, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission announced plans to redesign the Breezewood interchange to include a direct connection between the turnpike and I-70.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PA Turnpike to Redesign Breezewood Interchange with a Connection to Interstate 70 |url=https://www.paturnpike.com/news/details/2024/09/24/pa-turnpike-to-redesign-breezewood-interchange-with-a-connection-to-interstate-70 |date=2024-09-24 |access-date=2024-09-24 |website=Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission |language=en}}</ref> In February 2025, it named a lead designer for the project.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PA Turnpike Selects Designer for Breezewood Interchange Project|url=https://www.paturnpike.com/news/details/2025/02/20/pa-turnpike-selects-designer-for-breezewood-interchange-project |date=2025-02-19 |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission |language=en}}</ref>

=== 2000s: Pike 2 Bike trail ===
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== Tourist services and amenities ==
[[File:I-70 EB-US 30 WB past PA TPK.jpeg|right|thumb|View to the west along the non-freeway portion of I-70 and US 30 in Breezewood, with numerous businesses lining the road]]
Approximately 2.6 million vehicles exited the turnpike through Breezewood in 1995.<ref name=harlan>{{cite news |first=Ted |last=Anthony |title = Oasis or nightmare? From a rural valley, a roadside neon jungle rises |agency = Associated Press |work = The Harlan Daily Enterprise |via = Google News |date = March 18, 1997 |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MD1BAAAAIBAJ&pg=6764,3216089&dq=breezewood+-strike+interstate&hl=en }}</ref> By 2003, that figure had increased to 3.4 million.<ref name="post-gazette.com"/> During high traffic periods, the arrangement can result in extended [[traffic jam]]s on all three highways.<ref name="Federal Highway Administration" />

According to a 1990 article in ''[[The New York Times]]'', Breezewood offered "no less than 10 motels, 14 fast-food restaurants and 7 fuel and service stations, including two sprawling [[truck stop]]s."<ref>{{cite news |first = Agis |last = Salpukas |url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9C0CE0DD1338F932A35753C1A966958260 |title = Turnpike Journal: Born as Place to Rest, Town Doesn't |work = The New York Times |date = October 1, 1990 |access-date = July 15, 2009 }}</ref> {{as of|1997}} approximately 1,000 people were employed in Breezewood's commercial district.<ref name=harlan/>

''[[Business Week]]'' stated in 1991 that Breezewood is "perhaps the purest example yet devised of the great American [[tourist trap]]...the Las Vegas of roadside strips, a blaze of neon in the middle of nowhere, a polyp on the nation's interstate highway system."<ref name="Federal Highway Administration"/>

By 2024 many of the businesses in Breezewood had closed.<ref name=ppg20241117>{{cite news|first=Madaleine|last=Rubin|title=How a Pennsylvania Turnpike redesign could kill – or save – Breezewood|url=https://www.post-gazette.com/news/transportation/2024/11/17/breezewood-pennsylvania-turnpike-redesign/stories/202411060154|work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|date=November 17, 2024|access-date=February 21, 2025}}</ref>

== Community ==
[[File:North Main Road in Breezewood, Pennsylvania.jpg|thumb|left|North Main Street, where most notable buildings in Breezewood outside of U.S. Route 30 are located, including the post office]]
The Breezewood community is not incorporated under Pennsylvania law and is treated as a portion of [[East Providence Township, Pennsylvania|East Providence Township]]. Commerce in Breezewood was about 75 percent of East Providence Township's tax base in 1997.<ref name=harlan/>

The community has a post office<ref name=harlan/> that has been assigned the [[ZIP Code]] of 15533. Breezewood also has a fire station and East Providence Township Hall.{{cn|date=May 2024}} The elementary school there closed in 2024.<ref>{{cite news|first=Erica|last=Burkholder|title=Everett agrees to sale of Breezewood|url=https://www.bedfordgazette.com/townnews/sport/everett-agrees-to-sale-of-breezewood/article_c2778750-4639-11ef-b233-1f9f89f50747.html|work=[[Bedford Gazette]]|date=July 20, 2024|access-date=March 31, 2025|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Keegan|last=Raabe|title=Community takes final walk through Breezewood Elementary School|url=https://www.wtaj.com/news/local-news/community-takes-final-walk-through-breezewood-elementary-school/|publisher=[[WTAJ-TV]]|date=June 26, 2024|access-date=March 31, 2025}}</ref>

There are few residences in the immediate area of Breezewood.<ref name=harlan/>

== Geography ==
[[Image:Breezewood PA airphoto aug2010.jpg|thumb|right|Oblique air photo of Breezewood and vicinity, facing northeast, and showing [[Interstate 70]], the [[Pennsylvania Turnpike]], [[U.S. Route 30]], and [[Rays Hill]]. The [[Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike]] can also be seen paralleling the Turnpike northeast of Breezewood.]]
Breezewood is situated in the [[Ridge and Valley Appalachians|Ridge and Valley Physiographic Province]] of the [[Appalachian Mountains]] of Pennsylvania. It lies on the western edge of [[Rays Hill]].

== See also ==
* [[List of gaps on Interstate Highways]]
* [[South of the Border (attraction)]] in [[South Carolina]]
* [[Wall Drug]] in [[South Dakota]]
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== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite news |last1=Hurley |first1=Amanda Kolson |title=What Internet Memes Get Wrong About Breezewood, Pennsylvania |url=https://www.citylab.com/design/2019/07/breezewood-meme-pennsylvania-turnpike-i-70-rest-stop-photos/594559/ |access-date=27 July 2019 |publisher=[[The Atlantic#CityLab|CityLab]] |date=24 July 2019}}
* [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2001/11/22/the-town-that-stops-traffic/652be768-3526-42f6-a64d-18decd67c263/ Washington Post article. "The Town That Stops Traffic." Manuel Roig-Franzia. Nov 22, 2001.]
* [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB932939160483361786 1999 Wall Street Journal article. Bruce Ingersoll. 1999 Jul 26.]
* {{cite news |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/i-vacationed-at-the-east-coasts-quintessential-rest-stop-its-more-inviting-than-it-looks/2017/08/10/a38ba58c-76d0-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html |title = I vacationed at the East Coast's quintessential rest stop. It's more inviting than it looks. |first = Melanie D.G. |last = Kaplan |newspaper = [[The Washington Post]] |date = August 10, 2017 |access-date = August 15, 2017 }}

== External links ==
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*{{YouTube|z0C7rb9a4mk|"How to Fix One of the Most Famous Traffic Chokepoints in the U.S. {{!}} WSJ Pro Perfected"}} (channel [[The Wall Street Journal]], August 26, 2024)
*"[https://paturnpike.rev.vbrick.com/#/videos/c066ed1d-9d31-4a28-95a9-24c4529ab564 Breezewood Interchange]" (2024 video by Crispin Havener, Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission)
*{{HAER |survey=PA-349 |id=pa3193 |title=Pennsylvania Turnpike, Breezewood Interchange, Near State Route 2029 about 1 mile southwest of Breezewood, Bedford County, PA |photos=1 |data=4 |cap=1}}

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Breezewood, Pennsylvania - Revision history

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