Highland Park, PA

Highland Park is a Mifflin County CDP near Reedsville and U.S. 322, more a named residential community than an incorporated Pennsylvania town. It sits in the Kishacoquillas Valley orbit, with Mifflin County School District's Highland Park Area Elementary and the district administration building giving the name a daily presence. The place is easy to confuse with Pittsburgh's Highland Park, but this one belongs to central Pennsylvania's farm-and-ridge landscape. There is no borough hall or old main street to organize the story; Highland Park reads through school roads, nearby valleys, and the larger Mifflin County map. It is a small Pennsylvania place whose identity is geographic more than municipal.