Feb. 5, 2025 -- Lackawanna County will repave Montage Mountain Road from the Interstate 81 interchange to the Montage ski resort. The project also includes repaving the portion of Glenmaura National Boulevard that serves the Shoppes at Montage, the Cinemark movie complex and the adjacent office park, and repaving the entrance road to the William W. Scranton Office Park.

County Commissioners Bill Gaughan, Matt McGloin and Chris Chermak voted today to award a $3.575 million contract to Pennsy Supply, Pittston, which submitted the lowest qualifying bid for the work.

The work will begin this spring, though an exact date has not been determined, and will be completed this year.

In 2026, the county plans to repave Glenmaura National Boulevard from its intersection with Montage Mountain Road to Route 502 in Moosic. According to county engineer Frank Summa, that work cannot be done this year because a separate project – reconstruction of a culvert near Glenmaura National Golf Club – must be completed as a prelude to paving.

“This is the first major road infrastructure commitment on the mountain in many years,” Gaughan said. “It will serve commercial businesses, recreation businesses, residents and the thousands of people who use those roads every year to access PNC Field for RailRiders games, the amphitheater, ski area and water park, offices, shops and theater.”

“Montage Mountain is an economic center of Lackawanna County because it has so much to offer, and we think it can be even more so,” McGloin added, noting that the county commissioned a comprehensive economic development study of the mountain to help guide future policy and development.

The commissioners also approved a $190,283 contract with T. Brennan Heavy Equipment, Fell Twp., for major repairs to the Poplar Street bridge in Mayfield. That project will begin the spring and be completed this year.