Mountaintop / Iacocca Hall

Why here

Mountaintop sits about 180 m above Goodman. The Spine bus serves this stop from day one; a gondola could make the climb in about 6 minutes per section if studies support it.

Program ideas (planning phase)

• Heated waiting room and snow-melt at the platform edge
• Gondola angle station (option)
• Near Mountaintop Discovery Gardens, a separate student-initiated garden idea (not sponsored or endorsed by Lehigh University; it includes no transit or museum parts)
• Above-ground or earth-sheltered geology learning pavilion at the station, with rock cores and a rock garden of local stone (no mined underground museum); separate from the garden
• Trail links to Lehigh's Forest Park

Every station also gets the station kit: level boarding, shelter, lighting, real-time screens, bike racks, a rain garden and a sorting point for recycling, compost and trash.

The station area

The stop would be a Spine bus platform, with a gondola angle station as an option. Both would need Lehigh's agreement. Mountaintop Discovery Gardens is a separate, student-initiated idea with its own status; this plan does not show or assume its design.

What exists today

• No LANTA trips within 400 m in 2022 timetable data; Lehigh shuttles serve the campus.
• Lehigh's Forest Park opened its first public trail on 22 April 2026.