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About Jim Thorpe, PA

This former coal town in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains draws visitors with its Victorian architecture and dramatic riverside setting. Route 209 provides the main access from Allentown (35 miles) and New York City (90 miles), while Route 903 connects to the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The Old Jail Museum displays a mysterious handprint on a cell wall, left by one of the condemned Molly Maguires in the 1870s.

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Jim Thorpe, PA is in United States, at 40.871, -75.743 - about 35 km south of East Side, PA.

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The closest airport to Jim Thorpe, PA is Lehigh Valley International Airport, 48 km (about 49 min by car). Other airports nearby: Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport.

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