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Pennsylvania Route 77

State highway in Pennsylvania, US

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ1053283 ↗
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Pennsylvania Route 77 (PA 77) is a 36-mile-long (58 km) east–west state highway located in northwest Pennsylvania. The western terminus of the route is at PA 27 in Meadville. The eastern terminus is at PA 426 in Corry.

Route description

PA 77 begins at an intersection with PA 27 in the city of Meadville in Crawford County, heading northeast on two-lane undivided Hickory Street. The road passes homes, crossing into West Mead Township and becoming Blooming Valley Road. The route runs through rural residential areas before continuing into a mix of farmland and woodland with some homes, heading into East Mead Township. PA 77 becomes unnamed and runs through more rural areas, passing through a corner of Woodcock Township prior to entering the borough of Blooming Valley. Here, the road becomes State Street and passes a few homes, reaching an intersection with PA 198. The route heads back into agricultural and wooded areas with some residences as it crosses into Richmond Township. PA 77 becomes unnamed and passes through more rural areas, running through New Richmond before forming a brief concurrency with PA 408.

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The public source identifies “Pennsylvania Route 77” as state highway in Pennsylvania, US. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pennsylvania, Route and State.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pennsylvania Route 77” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.