Mauch Chunk station

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.

Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Type: Railway station
Description: train station in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Also known as: “Central Railroad of New Jersey Station”, “Jim Thorpe Station”, “Mauch Chunk”, and “Mauch Chunk Station”
Address: 1 and 3 Susquehanna Street, Jim Thorpe, PA 18229

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Asa Packer Mansion and Harry Packer Mansion.

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 570 feet north of Mauch Chunk station.

Harry Packer Mansion

Guest house

Photo: KForce, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Harry Packer Mansion, is a historic home which is located in Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located in the Old Mauch Chunk Historic District, this residence was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 1974. Harry Packer Mansion is situated 650 feet north of Mauch Chunk station.

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 2 miles east of Mauch Chunk station.