 The route becomes the border between Portage Township to the north and the borough of Portage to the south as it heads into commercial areas, gaining a center left-turn lane.PA 53 intersects PA 164 and forms a short concurrency with that route, fully entering Portage Township before PA 164 splits to the north.The road becomes two lanes again and heads northeast into woods, turning to the southeast as it passes through the residential community of Jamestown.