|
 |
 |
 |
 |
Altoona PA Tourism and Sightseeing
|
|
Where is Altoona Pennsylvania?
|
|
|
Altoona Pennsylvania
|
|
|
|
Click Here to find hotels in Altoona.
If you need additional visitor information for Altoona, Click Here.
Click Here to find things to do in Altoona.
Click Here to view a list of attractions in Altoona.
Click Here to find restaurants in Altoona.
Click Here to find local events in Altoona.
Things to do in Altoona PA, Sightseeing and Altoona PA Tourism
Altoona PA Tourism - Planning an Altoona PA Vacation
Below is a list of Altoona PA tourist attractions, activities, events, hotels, restaurants and visitor information entries to help you plan an Altoona PA Vacation! Find detailed information on the Altoona PA tourism entries by clicking on their links. Narrow your search by selecting from a specific Altoona PA travel category on the left hand menu.
Explore All Of Pennsylvania's Regions
You can find Pennsylvania tourist attractions and activities in all of Pennsylvania's regions: Allentown, Altoona, Bethlehem, DuBois, Erie, Gettysburg, Harrisburg, Hershey, Johnstown, Lancaster, Lawrence County, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Reading, Scranton, State College, Susquehanna River Valley, Williamsport and Other.
Fun Things to do during your Altoona PA Vacation - Top Altoona PA Tourist Attractions and Activities
Some of the most popular Altoona PA tourist attractions that list on our site include Horseshoe Curve National Historic Landmark , Benzel's Pretzel Bakery and Prince Gallitzin State Park.
Fun activities in Altoona PA include Gardners Candies, Carmike Park Hills Plaza 7 and Carmike 8.
Create an online Altoona PA vacation itinerary
You can use WeGoPlaces.com to plan your Altoona PA vacation itinerary! To begin, select from our list of Altoona PA tourist attractions, activities, accommodations, events, restaurants or Altoona PA vacation & visitor information entries. Click the "Add" button to add individual entries to your online Altoona PA vacation itinerary.
Featured Pennsylvania Tourist Attractions and Activities
Please visit our Pennsylvania featured listings - Trans-Siberian Orchestra at Giant Center, Darius Rucker at State Theatre- PA, Star Wars In Concert at Mellon Arena, Dane Cook at Giant Center, Radio City Christmas Spectacular at Benedum Center, Nutcracker at Warner Theatre - PA, Pittsburgh Steelers at Heinz Field, Jeff Dunham at Sovereign Center and Hairspray at Scranton Cultural Center.
|
|
|
| Your request returned 24 results. |
|
|
 Enlarge
|
Gardners Candies
Manufacturer and Retailer of Gourmet Chocolates
Category: Tyrone Shopping near Altoona, Pennsylvania
Description of this Altoona area Activity: In 1897, the Gardner family turned their passion for candy making into a retail enterprise that grew to become a chain of 15 retail stores located throughout Pennsylvania. More than 100 years later, Gardners continues the tradition of using original recipes and processes to make chocolates with only the freshest and finest ingredients. Over the years, Gardners has become famous for its Original Peanut Butter Meltaways, but also produces more than 100 varieties of confections including old-time favorites such as freshly roasted nuts, assorted meltaways, fresh fruit creams, toasted coconut and caramels, all nestled beneath layers of rich milk, dark or white chocolate. Each piece is always handled with delicate care from the first stir to the final packaging.
Visit Gardners Candies and let our Chocolate Fantasyland take you back to your childhood. Our reputation for friendly old-fashioned service will make you feel at home as your candies are packed to order. Gardners also creates candy-filled trays, baskets and collector tins decorated and wrapped for elegant presentation. As a special service to our customers, we will mail anywhere, and gift-wrapping is free. Before you leave, enjoy an old-time sundae in our old-fashioned ice cream parlour.
Gardners credits its success to the philosophy of giving customers rich quality products and great service, and striving to make the best even better. In doing so, Gardners also offers extensive fundraising opportunities and corporate gifts, as well as its quality products in a secure online shopping environment. We take pride in celebrating over a century of providing pleasure, quality and happy experiences for candy lovers the world over.
The Gardners Candies plant is in Tyrone on Adams Avenue. Gardners Candies stores with old-fashioned ice cream parlours are on West Tenth Street in Tyrone and next to Wal-Mart in Altoona.
|
|
Add
Gardners Candies
to your free online travel itinerary
|
|
|
Enlarge
|
Horseshoe Curve National Historic Landmark
Railroad engineering marvel in the Allegheny Mountains
Category: Altoona Historic Site in Pennsylvania
Description of this Altoona Attraction: In the mid 1840's the use of steam locomotives to move people and goods westward was beginning to replace canal systems in Pennsylvania. Under the leadership of John Edgar Thompson, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company began to put railroad infrastructure across the Commonwealth, but were stopped in their tracks at the foot of the Allegheny Mountains near Altoona. In order to conquer the massive land blocks, Thompson devised an engineering plan that used the landscape and the hands of 450 Irish immigrant workers to create what is known today as the Horseshoe Curve. Opened officially on February 15, 1854, the Curve remains one of the most important components of the mainline, owned and operated by Norfolk Southern. For over 150 years the Curve has shipped freight and passengers to the west, and because of its location, the Curve offers breaktaking views of the surrounding mountain landscapes and of the valley below. It also offers trackside viewing of trains, which has made it a destination for rail lovers for decades. Since its renovation in 1992 with the help of the National Park Service, the viewing area beside the tracks of the Horseshoe Curve offers a ride on the incline to go trackside, upper and lower picnic areas, a visitors center with intrepretation and a small restaurant. In combination with its partner, the Railroaders Memorial Museum, the Horseshoe Curve helps to bring alive the celebration of 150 years of railroading in Altoona, PA.
|
|
Add
Horseshoe Curve National Historic Landmark
to your free online travel itinerary
|
|
|
Enlarge
|
Prince Gallitzin State Park
Pennsylvania State Park
Category: Patton Nature near Altoona, Pennsylvania
Description of this Altoona area Attraction: The 6,249 acre Prince Gallitzin State Park is in the scenic Allegheny Plateau Region of Pennsylvania. Large portions of the park can be seen from several easily accessible vistas. The major attraction is the 1,600 acre Glendale Lake. Recreational opportunities include boating, hunting, picnicking, fishing, hiking, swimming, biking, wildlife watching, cross-country skiing, and snowmobiling. Overnight accommodations include the Crooked Run Campground and modern cabins. To reserve a campsite, cabin, organized group tenting area, or a picnic pavilion, call 1-888-PA-PARKS, 7 am - 5 pm Monday through Saturday. Campsites can be reserved from 11 months up to noon of the day of arrival. Cabins, organized group tenting areas, and picnic pavilions can be reserved from 11 months to two days in advance.
|
|
Add
Prince Gallitzin State Park
to your free online travel itinerary
|
|
|
Enlarge
|
Railroaders Memorial Museum
Interpretative museum documenting the Pennsylvania Railroad
Category: Altoona Museum in Pennsylvania
Description of this Altoona Attraction: In its 25th year (1980-2005), the Railroaders Memorial Museum proudly interprets, documents and celebrates 150 years of railroading heritage in Altoona, PA. In 1854 when the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) constructed and opened the Horseshoe Curve, the Allegheny Mountains were overcome and quick westward travel became available. In the valley below, the city of Altoona began to become the center of PPR operations and quickly the Railroad City became a place to do business, experience culture, shop and recreate. The Railroaders Memorial Museum offers visitors the opportunity to learn about, relive, and relish in the magnitude of the PRR's early railroad operations, and then it follows through by documenting the railroading companies that followed- the Penn Central, Conrail and Norfolk Southern. Housed in the PRR Master Mechanics Building that was built in 1883, the Museum offers a 6-acre site that is filled with indoor and outdoor intrepretation, rolling stock- including Charles Schwab's personal car the Loretto, an outdoor stage, and the Norfolk Southern active mainline at the rear for train watching. The Museum theatre offers original features throughout the day, and other vinettes are shown throughout the Museum as part of the exhibitry. For kids, the Museum offers the Thomas the Tank Engine Play Room, a full size area that has all the Thomas set-ups for kids to play with on their own. The Railroaders Memorial Museum has something of interest for the history buff, the railroad lover, the group of school students and the family.
|
|
Add
Railroaders Memorial Museum
to your free online travel itinerary
|
|
|
Enlarge
|
The William E. Swigart Jr. Automobile Museum
The oldest automobile museum in America
Category: Huntingdon Museum near Altoona, Pennsylvania
Description of this Altoona area Attraction: Nearly a century of automotive history is in store for those who come to Huntingdon, Pa. The Swigart Museum is the oldest automobile museum in America having been established in 1920 by the late W. Emmert Swigart.
The selection of one-and two- cylinder cars in the Swigart Museum is probably the most diverse in the United States. Included among the exhibits are several of the most popular autos at the turn of the century. Although the collection is distinguished in its presentation of the automobile during its formative years, it also features examples of outstanding vehicles from the classic era. Famous marques represented in the collection include: Pierce-Arrow, Packard, Marmon, Duesenberg, Cord, as well as several others.
The collection features many rare, and in many cases, one-of-a-kind vehicles. Each car has a history that deserves taking time for recounting. Each car is a work of art that bears testimony to a nearly-forgotten era when motor carriages were built by craftsmen.
|
|
Add
The William E. Swigart Jr. Automobile Museum
to your free online travel itinerary
|
|
|
|
|
Enlarge
|
Allegheny Ridge Heritage Area
Part of the statewide Heritage Parks Program
Category: Altoona Tourism in Pennsylvania
Description of this Altoona Visitor Information entry: Heritage areas contain a multitude of cultural, historic, recreational, natural, and scenic resources of state and national significance that collectively exemplify the industrial heritage of Pennsylvania. Through regional partnerships and public grassroots planning strategies, these resources are identified, protected, enhanced, and promoted to strengthen regional economies through increased tourism, creation of new jobs and stimulation of public and private partnerships for new investment opportunities.
The Allegheny Ridge Corporation (ARCorp) was created to manage the Allegheny Ridge Heritage Area, which was designated by the Commonwealth in 1992, in a cooperative program involving all levels of government and the private sector.
The Allegheny Ridge Corporation is a private, non-profit corporation charged with developing, interpreting, and restoring the historic, cultural, and natural resources of the Allegheny Ridge Heritage Area in central/western PA (specifically Blair, Cambria, Somerset, and Huntingdon Counties). Allegheny Ridge Heritage Area will soon expand its service area to include those counties that fall within the 320-mile corridor of one of its projects.
ARCorp provides numerous opportunities in economically struggling communities in central/western Pennsylvania. Through the development and promotion of various heritage- and recreation-related amenities, ARCorp projects not only improve resident quality-of-life, but also advance regional tourism. As Pennsylvania’s second largest industry, tourism can provide consistent funding to developing communities. To fulfill these goals, ARCorp has developed two projects, the Pittsburgh-to-Harrisburg Main Line Canal Greenway™ and Project RidgeRIDER™, both of which are in an intense implementation stage that will result in the development of unique recreation, conservation, and heritage development projects.
|
|
Add
Allegheny Ridge Heritage Area
to your free online travel itinerary
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Enlarge
|
Lincoln Caverns, Inc.á
Lincoln Caverns, Inc.á in Huntingdon, PA
Category: Huntingdon Tour near Altoona, Pennsylvania
Description of this Altoona area Attraction: Where science, adventure, and discovery are NATURALLY FUN! Family-friendly, one-hour interpretive tours of two spectacular crystal caverns. Educational programs, gift shop, campground. Great family events?October Ghosts & Goblins Tours, February Batfest and June Discovery Days. Closest Cavern to Raystown Lake.
|
|
Add
Lincoln Caverns, Inc.á
to your free online travel itinerary
|
|
|
Enlarge
|
COMFORT INN DUNCANSVILLE, Indoor Pool, Outdoor Pool, Non Smoking Rooms, Restaurant
COMFORT INN DUNCANSVILLE in DUNCANSVILLE, PA
Category: Duncansville Hotel near Altoona, Pennsylvania
Price: Currently as low as $77.36/night!
Phone: 1-800-493-8594 (Toll free)
Description of this Altoona area Accommodation: PERFECT FOR BUSINESS AND LEISURE TRAVELERS ALIKE, OUR COMFORTINN FEATURES INDOOR POOL AND SPA, COMFORT SUNSHINE BREAKFASTBUFFET, FREE WIRELESS HIGH SPEED INTERNET SERVICE, ADJACENTDINING HOSSS STEAK AND SEAHOUSE OR MARZONIS BRICK OVEN AND BREWING COMPANY WARMLY APPOINTED GUESTROOMS AND SUITES, ANDPLATINUM AWARD WINNING SERVICE. THE HOTEL IS JUST MINUTES FROMDOWNTOWN ALTOONA AND THE MALL, AND CONVENIENT TO ALL AREABUSINESSES AND ATTRACTIONS.
|
|
Add
COMFORT INN DUNCANSVILLE
to your free online travel itinerary
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
