Blanton Museum of Art
The university’s art museum, a ten-minute walk from our homes without crossing a main road. Free on Tuesdays.
The university’s art museum, a ten-minute walk from our homes without crossing a main road. Free on Tuesdays.
Ten miles of shaded trail around the water, kayaks for hire, and a million bats leaving the Congress Avenue bridge at dusk.
Two sister resorts on one lift ticket: Jack Frost for families and learners, Big Boulder for the park crowd, night skiing and tubing.
Sixteen acres of bare ice-age boulders in the middle of a forest, a 25-foot waterfall and a sandy lake beach. Free.
The lakeside Irish pub most of our guests end up at: big burgers, wings, a fireplace in winter and a deck over the water in summer.
The lakeside bar with the sunset view: deck and boat slips in summer, a fireplace and ski jackets in winter, live music at weekends.
The rainy-day plan: a 70-minute ride up the Lehigh Gorge in 1920s coaches from a Victorian railway town with a jail museum and coffee shops.
Twenty-six flat, shaded miles along the Lehigh River: hire bikes in White Haven, shuttle up to Jim Thorpe and ride back down. Rafting too.