Pennsylvania Route 65

Pennsylvania Route 65
Pennsylvania Route 65
65th Infantry Division Memorial Highway
Route information
	Maintained by PennDOT
Length	51.731 mi (83.253 km)
Existed	1961–present
Major junctions
South end	; I-279 / US 19 Truck in Pittsburgh;
	US 19 in Pittsburgh; I-79 in Glenfield; PA 51 in East Rochester; PA 18 / PA 68 in Rochester; US 422 near New Castle;
North end	PA 108 / PA 168 in New Castle
Location
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
Counties	Allegheny, Beaver, Lawrence
Highway system
	Pennsylvania State Route System; Interstate; US; State; Scenic; Legislative;

Pennsylvania Route 65 (PA 65, also known as the 65th Infantry Division Memorial Highway) is a major 51-mile-long (82 km) state highway located in western Pennsylvania, United States. The route, traveling north–south from the Interstate 279/U.S. Route 19 Truck (I-279/US 19 Truck) concurrency in Pittsburgh north to the PA 108/PA 168 concurrency in New Castle, connects downtown Pittsburgh to the northwestern portion of the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area. PA 65 is similar in its purpose to PA 18 and PA 51, both of which run parallel to PA 65 at one point or another; however, the three routes pass through different cities for most of their respective alignments.

The route begins in the Golden Triangle of Pittsburgh as a limited-access highway, following the bank of the Allegheny and Ohio rivers around the Manchester neighborhood, passing north of Acrisure Stadium and west of PNC Park. While limited-access, the road becomes Ohio River Boulevard, named for the river that PA 65 parallels for 25 miles (40 km) between the city of Pittsburgh and the borough of Rochester. Outside of the city, the road becomes a four-lane at-grade roadway to Rochester, with some portions featuring a divided highway. North of Rochester, PA 65 narrows to two lanes and passes through predominantly rural land, running concurrent with PA 18 and PA 288 as it heads north.

In Pittsburgh, the boulevard was one of the deadliest roads in the city from the 1970s to the early 1980s.^[3]

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^ Prince, Adam (August 29, 2004). "History of the Ohio River Boulevard". SWPA Roads Project. Retrieved March 7, 2007.^{[self-published source]}

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[History-3] Prince, Adam (August 29, 2004). "History of the Ohio River Boulevard". SWPA Roads Project. Retrieved March 7, 2007.^{[self-published source]}

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