List and Descriptions of Roads Denoted Old National Pike
- (Hagerstown–Frederick, Maryland)—Hagerstown, Maryland to Frederick, Maryland
- Old National Pike (Brownsville, Pennsylvania) (Official namings), alternate colloquially, Old U.S. Route 40 —Extends from the Market Street elevated bridge, down the lower town main street to the jct. of High Street, turning across the Old National Pike Bridge, to the left turn up the hill past Denbo Heights several miles to Malden where it rejoins the four-lane highway.
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