Pennsylvania Route 958

Pennsylvania Route 958 (PA 958, also designated by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation as SR 0958) is an 8.63 mi state highway located in Warren County, Pennsylvania. The designation's southern terminus is at an intersection with U.S. Route 6 (US 6) in Pittsfield Township. The route heads through several small communities, including Lottsville, where it goes on a short concurrency with PA 957. The northern terminus is at the New York state line at Freehold Township, just east of Bear Lake. There, the route continues through New York as Chautauqua County Route 33 (CR 33). PA 958 was designated in 1928 as a connector from US 6 to the community of Wrightsville, where the designation terminated. The route was extended northward along its current alignment in 1936 and has remained unchanged since.

Route description
PA 958 begins at an intersection with a two-lane US 6 east of the city of Corry. The route progresses northward as a two-lane roadway through the rural regions of western Pennsylvania. PA 958 soon enters the community of Wrightsville, a small community of a few residences and mostly fields. At Deadmans Run Road, the highway begins to cross through a populated area, however, it soon leaves Wrightsville and turns to the northwest in the deep fields north of the community. The northwestern bend curves back to the northward progression and PA 958 passes through a large farm near an intersection with Kidder Road. Some residences parallel the highway as it makes another northwestern bend and soon comes on a northward stretch into the community of Lottsville, where the highway intersects with PA 957. At the intersection, PA 957 and PA 958 become concurrent along a westbound residential street, until leaving Lottsville, where the two routes turn to the southwest in fields. As PA 957 and PA 958 approach a railroad line used by the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad (and previously the Erie Railroad), PA 958 forks to the north, paralleling and soon crossing the rails northwest of Lottsville. The distinctively rural surroundings for PA 958 return, and the Norfolk Southern line parallels to the east as the highway curves northwestward. Soon, PA 958 returns to a farming region and curves away from the railroad on a mountainside. After passing a large pond, the route intersects Greeley Street a t-intersection in Bear Lake, where PA 958 turns eastward through the rural areas before intersecting with North Road, where the route turns northward and reaches the New York state line near Niobe, New York. PA 958 terminates here, and the right-of-way continues northward as Chautauqua CR 33 (Panama–Bear Lake Road).

History
PA 958 was first designated among many regional highways in the 1928 mass renumbering of state highways throughout Pennsylvania. The alignment, however was only a stub designation, connecting the southern terminus of US 6 (formerly PA 7 ) to the community of Wrightsville, only a short distance away. The alignment designed in 1928 only remained intact eight years into 1936, when it was extended northward to its current terminus at the New York state line near Bear Lake, Pennsylvania and Niobe, New York in 1936. The alignment has remained unchanged since the 1936 extension.