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Visit Pennsylvania's Botanical Gardens this Spring
02/16/2023 - 9:49amThere isn’t a more beautiful time to explore Pennsylvania this spring as the state’s landscape transforms into a colorful tapestry of wildflowers, tulips, wisteria, and fragrant flowering trees. Although that landscape is large beyond measure, you can find Pennsylvania’s breathtaking botanical gardens and arboretums in every corner. Find out mor...
Read MoreExplore History at the Ephrata Cloister
02/16/2023 - 9:01amEstablished as a semi-monastic community with a convent in 1732, the pious and celibate members of the religious order led by Johann Conrad Beissel sought religious freedom in one of the only places that offered it in the world: Pennsylvania. Beissel’s celibate Brothers and S...
Read MoreBuggies and Boutiques: Lancaster is the Best Small Town for Christmas Visits & Beyond
12/07/2022 - 11:13amPerhaps one drawback to Lancaster having the largest and most vibrant Amish community in the United States is that outsiders tend to think it’s the only reason to visit Lancaster. In reality, Lancaster uniquely combines seeming opposites as strikingly as the scene of a horse-drawn buggy next to a world-class mall, modern attractions wit...
Read MoreGetaway to Happy Valley this Winter Season
12/07/2022 - 11:11amViisit Happy Valley, as we celebrate the holidays & ring in the New Year! There are several exciting events coming up in our area. Downtown State College is the perfect location to ring in the New Year as we celebrate First Night! This event is jam packed with family-friendly fun, including horse drawn carriage rides, live ice sculpture carv...
Read MoreRewind and Unwind with Cross-Country Skiing at Allegheny National Forest
12/05/2022 - 8:04pmSkiing—with its lifts and snow groomers and glossy gear in all shades of neon—may seem to some an ultra-modern form of recreation. But cross-country skiing, a replica of the original form of skiing, is almost primeval, dating to Chinese and Scandinavian communities as least as early as 600 BCE. In a holiday season brimming with modern busyness a...
Read MoreSaints & Spirits Trail in Philadelphia and Its Countryside
09/25/2022 - 5:06pmWith its iconic places of worship and its renowned breweries, you might say that in Philadelphia both meanings of “spirit” receive their due. The city has much to summon the best and worst of human nature—although we will leave it up to you to decide which of the City of Love’s longstanding traditions merits the superlative. This fall, find your...
Read MoreJim Thorpe in the Fall: Festivals, Foliage, and Fun
09/25/2022 - 4:53pmWhile summer gets its fanfare in the form of salt-water vacations and outdoor barbeques, no season heralds itself quite as magnificently as autumn does. The spectacular foliage and invigorating air are an invitation to step outside this fall, to drink in the jewel-toned leaves and sunsets—perhaps summoning you to enjoy more and do less. If you’r...
Read MorePittsburgh: From "Steel City" to City of Gardens
05/30/2022 - 11:48amWhile perhaps not attaining the acclaim of a wonder of the world à la Babylon’s Hanging Gardens, Pittsburgh’s Garden Trail is indisputably a wonder in the region. Pittsburgh’s reputation as “the Steel City” may well be replaced by another moniker, as the urban landscape now enco...
Read MoreFind Wonder while Getting Lost in Moraine State Park
05/30/2022 - 11:38amIf you want to rediscover your wonder of the natural world this summer, Moraine State Park — which invokes the vastness of the glaciers which created it—is the place to reignite that spark. The enormous 16,725-acre park (and 3,225-acre Lake...
Read MoreFind Your Flavor of Happy in the Summer Traditions of "Happy Valley"
05/30/2022 - 11:30amIf Pennsylvania’s “Happy Valley” was deemed happy even in the financial fluctuations of the Great Depression, how much more happiness is there to be discovered today in vibrant Penn State and its surrounding regions? Find your happy in an array of longstanding Penn State traditions, beloved by locals and visitors alike.
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