Pennsylvania Stops
Road-trip stops in Pennsylvania
18 featured Pennsylvaniastops — National Parks, iconic roadside attractions, and Steve’s hand-picked favorites.
Pennsylvania (18)
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Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site
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Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument
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Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site
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Eisenhower National Historic Site
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Flight 93 National Memorial
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Fort Necessity National Battlefield
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Friendship Hill National Historic Site
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Gloria Dei Church National Historic Site
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Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site
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Independence National Historical Park
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Johnstown Flood National Memorial
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Lower Delaware National Wild and Scenic River
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Steamtown National Historic Site
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Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial
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Valley Forge National Historical Park
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Comfort Inn Harrisburg-Hershey
Harrisburg is the I-81 corridor's natural first overnight if you're coming from New York or New England. You've done the Pennsylvania stretch — which is longer than it looks on the map — and tomorrow you wake up in the Shenandoah Valley. The Comfort Inn is close to Hershey if you want to do Chocolate World in the morning, and close to I-81 if you just want to eat breakfast and drive. Both are valid choices.
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Hershey's Chocolate World
If Hersheypark is too much time or money, Chocolate World is the free alternative and it's genuinely great. The chocolate tour ride is free, you get a free candy bar at the end, and the gift shop has every Hershey product ever made. Your kids can design their own candy bar wrapper and you can buy chocolate in quantities that should require a forklift. Twenty minutes off I-81. Free ride, free chocolate, free smiles. The Griswold family budget approves.
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Hersheypark
The sweetest place on Earth — literally. Hersheypark is a full theme park built by the chocolate company, and the whole town smells like chocolate. Roller coasters, a waterpark, and Chocolate World next door where you get free chocolate at the end of the ride. Free. Chocolate. If you're taking the I-81 route from the Northeast, this is the big-stop option that turns a driving day into a vacation day. Your kids will not complain.