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Clarks Summit

Clarks Summit is a borough in Lackawanna County, northwest of Scranton in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

Clarks Summit
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The place

Clarks Summit is a borough in Lackawanna County, northwest of Scranton in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 5,108 at the 2020 census. It is also the northern control city of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension, I-476, though the official terminus is in adjacent South Abington Township.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Clarks Summit

Airports
Newark Liberty (EWR), 157 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 173 km · Syracuse Hancock (SYR), 183 km
  • New York → Clarks Summit
    167 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · $16–22
  • Newark → Clarks Summit
    154 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · $15–20
  • Syracuse → Clarks Summit
    177 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · $16–22
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No local-transport research exists yet for Clarks Summit

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Clarks Summit. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextThe park has facilities for camping, boating, canoe/kayak rental, a swimming pool, and walking/hiking trails.
  • Go nextMcDade Park has a fishing pond (stocked regularly), an Olympic size swimming pool with bath houses, basketball and tennis courts, two baseball fields, a pavilion, playgrounds, outdoor picnic areas with charcoal grills, open fields and rolling hills and a 1.8-mile cross-county ski or walking trail, The Lackawanna Coal Mining Tour and the Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum.

From Wikivoyage: Scranton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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