Art in Signage

One thing I have noticed that Pennsylvania does (though I’m sure other states do it, too—if you know of any, comment!) is post diagrams of steep downgrades for trucks. Such as this one:

Information the village of Pine Grove Mills, PA relies on

This one is found atop the mountain above Pine Grove Mills, PA on State Route 26. In the diagram we see that we are currently at the mandatory truck stop on the top of the mountain, where the runaway truck ramp is (and hey, look at that other sign, that ramp is gravel!), that there’s a hairpin turn followed by a 90-degree curve and a stop sign in the town of Pine Grove Mills—all in 2 miles at 8%. Also, truck speed limit is 20 mph.

That’s an impressive amount of information to share, it’s a good thing that the intended audience is supposed to stop and read it, it would be hard to pick up all of these important details at speed.

I stopped to admire this sign which, as far as I’m concerned, is as much art as critical signage after a hike along this ridge to a rock field where in my pre-cold state I thought it was a great idea to go for a rock scramble in search of a geocache, David's Vista. Despite the pain and hacking cough to come, there is little more beautiful than autumn in Appalachia.

Chris balancing between a rock and tree, contemplating the GPS, and evaluating the best route down