Packer Ridge Academy

Packer Ridge Academy is a school in Mahoning Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania which is located on Mauch Chunk Street. Packer Ridge Academy is situated nearby to Zion Lutheran Church, as well as near the hamlet Packerton.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mauch Chunk station and Asa Packer Mansion.

Mauch Chunk station

Railway station

Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Central Railroad of New Jersey Station, also known as the Jersey Central Station and Jim Thorpe Station, is a historic railroad station in Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Mauch Chunk station is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Packer Ridge Academy.

Asa Packer Mansion

Museum

Photo: Chris18240, Public domain.

The Asa Packer Mansion is a historic house museum on Packer Road in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, United States. Completed in 1861, it was the home of Asa Packer, a coal and railroad magnate, philanthropist, and founder of Lehigh University. Asa Packer Mansion is situated 1½ miles northwest of Packer Ridge Academy.

Bear Mountain

Peak

Bear Mountain, in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania several miles above the Lehigh Gap, is a steep-sided east bank ridgeline running about 9.96 miles between the hairpin turn in the Lehigh the Lenape Amerindian people visualized as a bear's snout, along many water gap gorges, to the steep face dropping down to the Penn Forest Reservoir. Bear Mountain is situated 1½ miles northeast of Packer Ridge Academy.