State Highways of New Jersey

NJ 163, the second-shortest designated New Jersey state highway, is the remaining vestige of the pre-1927 NJ 5, the trunk route that was replaced in 1927 by NJ 6 (now US 46). Originally, the highway crossed the Delaware River right where it reached it, just west of the community of Manunka Chunk, but the bridge to Mount Bethel, Pa., was dismantled in 1954, after the construction of the new Columbia-Portland toll bridge. US 46 was extended three miles upstream, along the former NJ 94, to meet the new bridge.

Today, NJ 163 is unsigned, although its presence is given away by a milepost 0 at its intersection with US 46. Crossing the Delawanna Creek, one can still see the old bridge abutments emblazoned with “STATE HIGHWAY ROUTE 5”. Then, just as the road rises to meet where the bridge used to be, it abruptly ends and becomes a truck parking lot.

The route log is given from east to west, the opposite of the usual direction, in order to have its origin at another state highway.

Mile Street Name Feature

0.30 Northern terminus of , Knowlton Twp, Warren Co

0.15 Old Route 5 Delawanna Creek bridge Delawanna Creek

0.00 Old Route 5

0.00 Southern terminus of , Knowlton Twp, Warren Co

Road continues eastward as US 46

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Mile	Street Name	Feature
0.30	Northern terminus of , Knowlton Twp, Warren Co
0.15	Old Route 5	Delawanna Creek	bridge	Delawanna Creek
0.00	Old Route 5
0.00	Southern terminus of , Knowlton Twp, Warren Co
	Road continues eastward as