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Easton

Easton is a city in and the county seat of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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The place

Easton is a city in and the county seat of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The city's population was 28,127 as of the 2020 census. Easton straddles the Lehigh River as it flows into the Delaware River, which serves as the city's eastern geographic boundary with Phillipsburg, New Jersey.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Easton

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Lafayette College

    Lafayette College is a private liberal arts college in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter and other citizens in Easton, the college first held classes in 1832.

    1.3 km · college in Easton, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bushkill Park

    Bushkill Park, formerly Bushkill Park and Grove, is an amusement park in Easton, Pennsylvania. it One of the oldest amusement parks in the nation, it is today geared toward younger audiences.

    3.5 km · Small amusement park in Easton, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Easton Cemetery

    Easton Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located in Easton, Pennsylvania, established in 1849. It is the burial site of many notable individuals.

    1.2 km · cemetery in Easton, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    statue of the Marquis de Lafayette

    Marquis de Lafayette is a monumental statue on the campus of Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. The statue, designed by Daniel Chester French and standing on a pedestal designed by Henry Bacon, was dedicated in 1921 in honor of the college's namesake, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.

    1.2 km · statue at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, US · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Marble Mountain (New Jersey)

    Marble Mountain is a mountain in Warren County, New Jersey. The summit rises to 771 feet, and is located in Harmony and Lopatcong Townships, overlooking the Delaware River; along with Chestnut Hill on the Pennsylvania side, Marble Mountain forms Weygadt Gap or the Little Water Gap.

    6.6 km · mountain in United States of America · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Church

    Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Church is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic church in West Easton, Pennsylvania. Father Paul Makar is the administrator.

    2.1 km · Ukrainian Greek Catholic church in the US · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal

    The Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal, more commonly called the Delaware Canal, runs for 60 miles parallel to the right bank of the Delaware River from the entry lock near the mouth of the Lehigh River and terminal end of the Lehigh Canal at Easton south to Bristol. At Easton, which today is the home of The National Canal Museum, the Delaware Canal also connected with the Morris Canal built to carry anthracite coal to energy-starved New Jersey industries.

    1 km · canal in eastern Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Palmer Park Mall

    Palmer Park Mall is an indoor one-story shopping mall of 457,734 square feet located in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. The mall is located at the intersection of PA Route 248 and Park Avenue in Palmer Township, Pennsylvania.

    3.6 km · shopping mall in Palmer Township, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Parsons-Taylor House

    The Parsons-Taylor House is a historic, American home that is located in Easton, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

    500 m · house in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Easton House

    Easton House, also known as the Bachmann Publick House and George Taylor's Easton Property, is a historic inn and tavern located at Easton in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1753, and is a 2 3/4 story rubble limestone building, with squared corners, in the Georgian style.

    800 m · history building in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States of America · Wikipedia

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Getting to Easton

Airports
Newark Liberty (EWR), 88 km · Philadelphia (PHL), 91 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 114 km
Stations
Braden Airpark, 6.4 km
  • New York → Easton
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · $9–13
  • Newark → Easton
    89 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · $8–11
  • Philadelphia → Easton
    82 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · $9–13
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Easton

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 Easton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundAll states in this region maintain convenient service plazas along the major highways, which are probably your best bet for hitchhiking as the freeway itself is closed to pedestrians.

From Wikivoyage: Mid-Atlantic, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    175 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    644 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,674 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,677 km
  5. 05
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,751 km

If you know how people move in Easton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Easton

  • Phillipsburgtown in New Jersey, United States3.2 km
  • Wilsonborough in Pennsylvania, United States of America2 km
  • Tatamyborough in Pennsylvania, United States of America6.8 km
  • Glendonborough in Pennsylvania, United States of America3.3 km
  • Stockertownborough in Pennsylvania, United States of America8.4 km
  • West Eastonborough in Pennsylvania, United States of America2 km