{"id":9930279,"date":"2026-09-18T17:49:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9930279"},"modified":"2026-09-18T17:49:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:49:56","slug":"pennsylvania-route-281-pa-653-to-pa-523","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9930279","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Route 281, PA-653 to PA-523"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/pa\/281\/653to523\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Kingwood Rd and Scullton Rd, Somerset Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">No reassurance shield after the 653 split.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/pa\/281\/653to523\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Kingwood Rd and Faidley 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\/653to523\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Kingwood Rd and Humbert Rd, Kingwood, Somerset Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Keep left to stay on 281 south as we enter the village of Kingwood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/pa\/281\/653to523\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Kingwood Rd and Humbert Rd, Kingwood, Somerset Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Follow 281 south to Casselman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/pa\/281\/653to523\/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Kingwood Rd and Humbert Rd, Kingwood, Somerset Cty<br \/>\nReassurance shield after bearing left.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/pa\/281\/653to523\/6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Kingwood Rd and Markleton School 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\/653to523\/7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Kingwood Rd and Fort Hill Rd, Somerset Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield after Fort Hill Road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/pa\/281\/653to523\/8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Kingwood Rd and Humbert Rd, Somerset Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield as Humbert Road rejoins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/pa\/281\/653to523\/9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Park St and 2nd St, Ursina<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield as we enter Ursina.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/pa\/281\/653to523\/10.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Park St and Groff Rd, Ursina<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield as we head out of Ursina and the reduced speed limit ends (as told by the old sign in the background).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/pa\/281\/653to523\/11.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Logan Pl and Oden St, Confluence<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As we enter Confluence, we&#8217;ll approach PA 523, which begins here in a redundant concurrency with PA 281.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/pa\/281\/653to523\/12.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Logan Pl and Oden St, Confluence<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Turn left for 281\/523 south towards Harnedsville and Markleysburg.<\/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=9930280\">S to PA-523<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9930278\">N to PA-653<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/penna523.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"70\" \/> S to PA-281<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/penna653.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"70\" \/> W to PA-381, E to PA-281<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: Kingwood Rd and Scullton Rd, Somerset Cty No reassurance shield after the 653 split. Location: Kingwood Rd and Faidley Rd, Somerset Cty Reassurance shield a couple miles later. Location: Kingwood Rd and Humbert Rd, Kingwood, Somerset Cty Keep left to stay on 281 south as we enter the village of Kingwood. Location: Kingwood Rd [&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-9930279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930279","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=9930279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9930279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9930279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9930279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}