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Pennsylvania Tourist Attractions
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Pennsylvania Tourist Attractions
Tourist attractions in Pennsylvania - Theme Parks, Tours, Museums, National Parks, Historic Sites & More!
Below is a list of attractions in Pennsylvania to help you plan a Pennsylvania Vacation! Find detailed information on the Pennsylvania tourist attraction entries by clicking on their links. Narrow your search by selecting from a specific Pennsylvania attraction category on the left hand menu.
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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.
Featured Pennsylvania Tourist Attractions and Activities
Please visit our Pennsylvania featured listings - 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, Hairspray at Scranton Cultural Center, Tim McGraw at Sovereign Center and Brian Regan at State Theatre- PA.
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American Civil War Museum
Wax Museum depicting the events of the entire Civil War.
Category: Gettysburg Museum in Pennsylvania
Description of this Gettysburg Attraction: The American Civil War Museum presents the entire story of the Civil War era and the Battle of Gettysburg with remarkable realism. Learn the causes, effects and significant personalities that shaped the Civil War and as a result, ultimately, American history.
Throughout five hallways of scenes, the American Civil War Museum recreates history with life-sized dioramas of the Civil War. Visitors complete a self-guided museum tour that begins with the economical, social, and political causes of the war and ends with the untimely assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Following the self-guided tour, visitors enter into the internationally acclaimed, digitally enhanced Battleroom Auditorium.
Amidst the sounds of thunderous battle cries and bullets, visitors will witness a life-sized recreation of the Battle of Gettysburg. Discover how a small town in rural Pennsylvania became known for one of the bloodiest battles in American history. An animated Abraham Lincoln delivering the immortal Gettysburg Address follows the battle recreation.
The Gettysburg Gift Center located in the lobby of the museum is one of Gettysburg's largest and finest gift shops specializing in souvenirs, apparel, books for adults and children, replica weapons, home decor, games and toys, art, and collectibles. The Gift Center, with over 3000 square feet of retail space, offers the BEST selection and the BEST prices in Gettysburg.
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Appalachian National Scenic Trail
National Scenic Trail
Category: State of Pennsylvania National Park in Pennsylvania
Description of this Pennsylvania Attraction: The Appalachian National Scenic Trail is a 2,174-mile footpath along the ridgecrests and across the major valleys of the Appalachian Mountains from Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in northern Georgia. The trail traverses Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia. The Appalachian Trail (A.T.) is used by day, weekend and other short-term hikers, section-hikers and thru-hikers. Thru-hikers hike the entire length of the Trail in one season.
The A.T. began as a vision of forester Benton MacKaye and was developed by volunteers and opened as a continuous trail in 1937. It was designated as the first National Scenic Trail by the National Trails System Act of 1968. The Trail is currently protected along more than 99 percent of its course by federal or state ownership of the land or by rights-of-way. Annually, more than 4,000 volunteers contribute more than 185,000 hours of effort on th
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Asbury Woods Nature Center
Public nature center open year round with 4.5 miles of trail
Category: Erie Nature in Pennsylvania
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Description of this Erie Attraction: Asbury Woods Nature Center is a public nature center open year round in Erie. Over 8,400 school students attended full day environmental education programs at the Nature Center in 2006. Another 10,336 public visitors attend day camps, festival, musical events and educational programs this past year. Over 64,000 visitors come to see the live animal exhibits, historical exhibits, watershed exhibits and gardens at the Nature Center and Brown's Farm each year. Thousands of hikers, joggers, mountain bikers, cross country skiers, fisherman and nature enthusiasts use the 4.5 miles of nature trails that cross the park. The trails are open year round, daylight hours and there is no fee to use the trails or visit the indoor exhibits.
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Blue Mountain Ski Area
Skiing, snowboarding and snowtubing
Category: Palmerton Attraction Packages in Pennsylvania
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Description of this Pennsylvania Attraction: Winter fun for everyone. Skiing, riding and snowtubing. Ski or ride Pennsylvania's highest vertical with 34 trails and 9 lifts. The region's only High speed detachable six seater chairlift so you'll get more time on the mountain and less time in lift lines. Blue has trails for every ability with the most varied terrain in Pa!! Our 3 lodges offer many ammenities...3 Snowsports Schools, 5 terrain parks for different abilities, many dining options, Skier's Stores, Kids programs and much more. Visit www.skibluemt.com for detailed info.
Snowtube on 19 snowslides with 2 tow lifts and one Carpet Conveyor Lift. New for the 2009-2010 season: Nightmare: 900 ft thrilling double black diamond, Central Park; 'streets' terrain park featuring 2 custom built stair sets, Slopeside Pub and Grill: outside dining area complete with a grill, bar, and fire pit, and the Valley Courtyard: outdoor dining courtyard with various food and beverage options.
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Deshler-Morris House
National Park
Category: Philadelphia National Park in Pennsylvania
Description of this Philadelphia Attraction: Built by Quaker merchant, David Deshler before the Revolution, this handsome stone house faces historic Market Square. During the Battle of Germantown in 1777, British Commander Sir William Howe, made the house his headquarters.
While the yellow fever epidemic raged in Philadelphia in 1793, business of the new republic continued at the Germantown "White House" Here, President Washington presided over meetings with his divided cabinet: Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Knox and Edmund Randolph. The president returned with his family to spend the following summer in Germantown's pleasant surroundings.
More recently, the Morris family lived here for over one hundred years, donating it to the National Park Service in 1948. Now a unit of Independence National Historical Park, guided tours of the Germantown "White House" offers a glimpse into the private world of our first president.
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Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site
National Park
Category: Philadelphia National Park in Pennsylvania
Description of this Philadelphia Attraction: For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it . . . Yet, mad am I not and very surely do I not dream. But tomorrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul.
Thus the narrator begins to confess to murdering his wife in The Black Cat, just one of many fascinating creations from short story master and poet, Edgar Allan Poe.
Exploring themes as diverse as spirituality, astronomy, science and depravity, Poes writing is as powerful and arresting today as when he was first published. Poes 6 years in Philadelphia, 1838-1844, were his most productive. Not only did Poe edit and provide critical reviews for very successful magazines, but he also invented the modern detective story. While in Philadelphia, Poe penned such classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher and poems like The Haunted Palace and To Helen.
While living in Philadelphia, Poe went from the high of being a popular lecturer to the despair of learning that his wife Virginia was ill with tuberculosis. The brief and tragic life of the author, his times, and literary legacy are interpreted in the building that once sheltered Poe and his family.
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Gallery 339
Fine art photography gallery in Center City, Philadelphia
Category: Philadelphia Art Gallery in Pennsylvania
Description of this Philadelphia Attraction: Located in Philadelphia, Gallery 339 promotes the work of distinguished and emerging photographers from around the world. The gallery's focus is thoughtful, carefully made work, extending across the spectrum of contemporary photography from antique processes used to explore current issues, to digital processes used to consider timeless questions in art. Through a regular program of exhibitions, the gallery is dedicated to broadening an appreciation for the depth, sophistication, and insight which can be found in contemporary photographic art.
Since opening in May 2005, Gallery 339 has presented several exhibitions featuring work from the U.S., Japan, South Korea, and Great Britain. The gallery has debuted important work by local artists like Paul Cava, Donald Camp, and Edward McHugh while introducing to Philadelphia artists including Edward Dimsdale, Sookang Kim, Amanda Means and Liz Rideal. The gallery also represents the work of emerging Philadelphia photographers like Tetsugo Hyakutake and Dan Lobdell.
The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM and on Sunday and Monday by appointment.
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Glencairn Museum
Bringing Religion To Life
Category: Bryn Athyn Museum near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Description of this Philadelphia area Attraction: Glencairn Museum educates visitors about the history of religion, using art and artifacts from a variety of cultures and time periods. Religious life through the ages is presented by means of a remarkable collection illustrating religions as varied as ancient Egyptian, ancient Greek and Roman, medieval Christian, Islamic, Asian, and Native American.
Glencairn is the former home of Raymond and Mildred Pitcairn, built in the Romanesque style between 1928 and 1939. Prior to this time Raymond Pitcairn, who had no formal training in architecture, had supervised the erection of the acclaimed Bryn Athyn Cathedral, a Gothic and Romanesque style complex.
Glencairn, above all a home, was also designed to house Pitcairn's outstanding collection of medieval objects, many of which had been purchased as inspirational models for the craftsmen at the Cathedral. Glencairn also became a center where Raymond and Mildred Pitcairn entertained the Bryn Athyn community for musical, civic and social events. Most of these events took place in the Great Hall.
The house boasts more than 90 rooms, on 10 floors. From the basement to the tower, evidence of handcrafted care is evident - from the gentle arches of ceilings and doorways to the placement of medieval and twentieth century Romanesque architectural and sculptural additions to the structure. The tower deck offers views of Bucks, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties, with the Philadelphia skyline looming on the southwestern horizon. Placed above the deck are 8 intricately carved capitals depicting the four areas of service most important to the Pitcairn family: Church, Family, School, and Country.
Open to the public since 1981, Glencairn’s combination of intricate mosaic work, hand-carved teak balconies and doors, marble floors and oriental rugs create the feeling of a true home that reflects the interests and style of the family that lived in it.
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Gloria Dei Church National Historic Site
National Park
Category: Philadelphia National Park in Pennsylvania
Description of this Philadelphia Attraction: Imagine a tiny church at the edge of wilderness Before Philadelphia, there was a village named Wicaco. Before William Penn, the Swedes were here, building log homes and a church they named GLORIA DEI. Imagine William Penns Philadelphia rising Hand-hewed logs vanish in favor of locally baked brick. The Swedish log GLORIA DEI removed to be replaced by a new church, christened in brick.
Imagine the transformationtown becomes citythirteen colonies become one nation... Lutheran GLORIA DEI becomes Episcopalian The tiny church was almost lost in the nearly endless sea of tall masts standing shoulder to shoulder along a busy waterfront only yards away. The sound of a thousand hammers beating against nail and wood could be heard as new ships rose on the waterfront; modest middle class houses and shops rise opposite where there was once field and forest.
Affectionately referred to as OLD SWEDES, the memory of the long-vanished Swedish settlers is not forgotten. Now imagine OLD SWEDES in the modern worldan oasis surrounded by a sea of concrete and steel Stroll among its cemeterys weatherworn tombstones to re-discover Patriots and ordinary citizens buried side by side so long ago. Enter the tiny church and feel three hundred years of history welcoming you.
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