{"id":9930277,"date":"2026-09-18T17:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9930277"},"modified":"2026-09-18T17:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:36:23","slug":"pennsylvania-route-281-pa-31-to-pa-653","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9930277","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Route 281, PA-31 to PA-653"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/pa\/281\/31to653\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Harrison Ave and Main St, Somerset<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As we pop off the one-way grid, turn left on Tayman Avenue to follow 31 east\/281 north. Keep right on Tayman for 281 south.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/pa\/281\/31to653\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Harrison Ave and Tayman Ave, Somerset<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Turn right for PA 281 south.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/pa\/281\/31to653\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Harrison Ave and Tayman Ave, Somerset<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Follow 31 east\/281 north for the Pennsylvania Turnpike.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/pa\/281\/31to653\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Tayman Ave and Harrison Ave, Somerset<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield after the turn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/pa\/281\/31to653\/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Tayman Ave and Race St, Somerset<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield as we head out of Somerset.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/pa\/281\/31to653\/6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: New Centerville Rd and Samuels Rd, Somerset Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield a bit over a mile later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/pa\/281\/31to653\/7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: New Centerville Rd and Piedmont Rd, Somerset Cty<br \/>\nReassurance shield after Piedmont Road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/pa\/281\/31to653\/8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: New Centerville Rd and Ling Rd, Somerset Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield a couple miles later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/pa\/281\/31to653\/9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: New Centerville Rd and Copper Kettle Hwy, New Centerville<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As we enter New Centerville, we&#8217;ll approach PA 653.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/pa\/281\/31to653\/10.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: New Centerville Rd and Copper Kettle Hwy, New Centerville<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Turn left for 653 east to Garrett and Rockwood. 653 west joins 281 south, though that isn&#8217;t well marked here.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/penna281.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"70\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9930278\">S to PA-653<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9930276\">N to PA-601<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/penna653.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"70\" \/> E to PA-281, W to PA-653 Truck<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/penna31.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/> W to PA-381, E to PA-601<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: Harrison Ave and Main St, Somerset As we pop off the one-way grid, turn left on Tayman Avenue to follow 31 east\/281 north. Keep right on Tayman for 281 south. Location: Harrison Ave and Tayman Ave, Somerset Turn right for PA 281 south. Location: Harrison Ave and Tayman Ave, Somerset Follow 31 east\/281 north [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9930277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9930277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9930277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9930277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9930277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}