PA 711 goes by many names along its route. The names include Crawford Avenue, Snyder Street, Springfield Pike, Main Street, Ligonier Street, Stahlstown-Ligonier Road, Market Street, Market Street Extension, 13th Street, Second Street, Charles Road, and Indian Creek Valley Road. Even though its signed north–south along its route, the route in Fayette County takes a more east–west direction, and most of the rest of the route in Westmoreland and Indiana counties goes more of a southwest–northeast direction.
Fayette County The route begins at an intersection of US 119 and PA 201 in the western part of the city of Connellsville. The route goes east from the city to
PA 381 in the village of Normalville, and begins a concurrency that spans for a before the route enters Westmoreland County.
Westmoreland County The route continues its concurrency with PA 381 for another until it splits at Jones Mills. As soon as the concurrency ends, the route has another short concurrency with
PA 31 from Jones Mills to the borough of Donegal. Continuing on PA 31 provides access to the
Pennsylvania Turnpike, where the Donegal Interchange (Exit 91) lies very close to PA 711 (signage on the Turnpike shows this as a route to PA 711). After PA 711 itself passes over the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the route passes through Donegal, and heads northeast to the village of Stahlstown, where it has an intersection with
PA 130. The route continues northeast to the borough of
Ligonier, where it intersects with
US 30. After passing through town, the route continues northeast to
PA 271 in the village of Oak Grove. The route heads north to the village of West Fairfield, where the route starts to parallel the
Conemaugh River and passes through the boroughs of
New Florence and
Seward. In the borough of Seward, the route has a concurrency with
PA 56, where it continues to Indiana County.
Indiana County The route continues with PA 56 for a short distance to the village of Robindale Heights, where PA 56 splits from the route, and PA 711 heads east. It continues east to the village of Cramer, where the route terminates at PA 403. ==History==