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Clarks Summit
Borough in Pennsylvania, US

Clarks Summit

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.

How locals move

Getting around Clarks Summit the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-09.

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