Pennsylvania Route 487

Pennsylvania Route 487
Pennsylvania Route 487
Route information
	Maintained by PennDOT
Length	64.244 mi (103.391 km)
Major junctions
South end	PA 61 in Paxinos
	PA 54 in Elysburg; PA 42 in Catawissa; US 11 in Bloomsburg; I-80 in Lightstreet; PA 93 in Orangeville; PA 254 in Benton Township; PA 239 in Benton; PA 118 in Sugarloaf Township;
North end	PA 87 in Dushore
Location
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
Counties	Northumberland, Columbia, Luzerne, Sullivan
Highway system
	Pennsylvania State Route System; Interstate; US; State; Scenic; Legislative;

Pennsylvania Route 487 (PA 487) is a 64.2-mile-long (103.3 km), north–south state highway running from PA 61 in Shamokin Township, Northumberland County, to PA 87 (near its intersection with US 220) in Dushore, Sullivan County. In Bloomsburg, PA 487 and US 11 share a brief wrong-way concurrency. After its brief concurrency with PA 118, PA 487 goes up a steep grade through Ricketts Glen State Park. PA 487 is used to carry traffic up the Fishing Creek valley.^[2]

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^ Clifton E. Rodgers (1968), Columbia County, Pennsylvania, comprehensive sewer and water plan 1968, retrieved February 28, 2019