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​Northeast Regional Office - Directions

Directions to DEP's Northeast Regional Office:

From Route 81 South (Coming from Scranton, or Routes 84 or 380):

Take exit 170B off Route 81 (Rt. 115S/Wilkes-Barre Exit). You’ll pass a Red Roof Inn on your right. You are now on Route 309 (a.k.a. the North Cross Valley Expressway). Stay in the two left lanes and then take EXIT 2. At the bottom of the exit ramp is a traffic light at a T-intersection. Make a left onto Wilkes Barre Boulevard. 

At the first traffic light (Conyngham Ave.) go straight. Continue straight through lights at Butler, Scott and Coal Streets. At the next light, make a right onto Market Street. Continue straight ahead through lights at Pennsylvania Boulevard and Washington Street. At the next light you’ll be facing Public Square and you will enter a traffic circle​​​ by making a right. Stay to the right when entering the traffic circle. Immediately take the next right off the circle onto North Main Street. 

Look for the “Wilkes Barre Public Parking – Park and Lock North”, a 5-story parking garage at 30 North Main Street on your left immediately behind the King’s College Richard Abbas Alley Center for Health Sciences. Enter the public parking garage. Visitors may use the rear entrance of DEP. 

Visitors may have their parking ticket validated. Be sure to bring your parking ticket along with you and have it validated by the DEP receptionist on the 2nd floor of the DEP building.


Additional public parking is available at: 

The “James F. Conahan Intermodal Transportation Facility”, 52 South Main Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. Validation is not available for this parking garage.

The Citi Tower Parkade, 27 S. Franklin St, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. Validation is not available for this 
parking garage.​​​


From the PA Turnpike/Rt. 476 (Coming from Philadelphia or Allentown areas):

Take exit 105 off the turnpike (Bear Creek exit). At the end of the turnpike ramp, make a left onto Route 115 (North). Follow the road down the mountain. Go through a traffic light and then cross over Route 81. You are now on Route 309 (a.k.a. the North Cross Valley Expressway). You'll pass a Red Roof Inn on your right. Stay in the two left lanes and then take EXIT 2. At the bottom of the exit ramp is a traffic light at a T-intersection. Make a left onto Wilkes-Barre Boulevard.

At the first traffic light (Conyngham Ave.) go straight. Continue straight through lights at Butler, Scott and Coal Streets. At the next light, make a right onto Market Street. Continue straight ahead through lights at Pennsylvania Boulevard and Washington Street. At the next light you'll be facing Public Square and you will enter a traffic circle by making a right. Stay to the right when entering the traffic circle. Immediately take the next right off the circle onto North Main Street. 

Look for the “Wilkes Barre Public Parking – Park and Lock North”, a 5-story parking garage at 30 North Main Street on your left immediately behind the King’s College Richard Abbas Alley Center for Health Sciences. Enter the public parking garage. Visitors may use the rear entrance of DEP. 

Visitors may have their parking ticket validated. Be sure to bring your parking ticket along with you and have it validated by the DEP receptionist on the 2nd floor of the DEP building.


Additional public parking is available at: 

The “James F. Conahan Intermodal Transportation Facility”, 52 South Main Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. Validation is not available for this parking garage.

The Citi Tower Parkade, 27 S. Franklin St, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. Validation is not available for this parking garage.


From Route 81 North (Coming from Harrisburg, Hazleton or Route 80):

Take exit 168 (Highland Park Blvd.) off Rt. 81 North and continue down a relatively long ramp. You will see an arena on your right. At the T-intersection at the bottom of the ramp, make a left. Continue down this road through a light at the entrance to Wegman's supermarket. At the second light continue going straight, and this will put you onto Coal Street. Continue through a third light, and at the bottom of the hill at a T-intersection, turn left onto Wilkes-Barre Boulevard and stay in the right lane. At the first light, make a right onto Market Street. 

Continue straight ahead through two lights at intersections with Pennsylvania Avenue and Washington Street. At the third light you'll be facing Public Square and you will enter a traffic circle by making a right. Stay to the right when entering the traffic circle. Immediately take the next right off the circle onto North Main Street. 

Look for the “Wilkes Barre Public Parking – Park and Lock North”, a 5-story parking garage at 30 North Main Street on your left immediately behind the King’s College Richard Abbas Alley Center for Health Sciences. Enter the public parking garage. Visitors may use the rear entrance of DEP. 

Visitors may have their parking ticket validated. Be sure to bring your parking ticket along with you and have it validated by the DEP receptionist on the 2nd floor of the DEP building.


Additional public parking is available at: 

The “James F. Conahan Intermodal Transportation Facility”, 52 South Main Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. Validation is not available for this parking garage.

The Citi Tower Parkade, 27 S. Franklin St, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. Validation is not available for this parking garage.​​