Pennsylvania Parks and Recreation Areas with National Historic Site

Elvis gyrated and McCarthy railed. School children ducked and covered, suburbanites dug bomb shelters. Everyone loved Lucy, and a retired general in the White House played golf and struggled to keep a third world war at bay. read more...

Phone: (717) 338-9114   Price Range: $3 - $5   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Gettysburg   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities:   Details Provided By: Eisenhower National Historic Site

Friendship Hill National Historic Site preserves the country estate of Albert Gallatin, a Swiss emigrant who served his adopted nation during the early years of the republic. read more...

Phone: 724-725-9190   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Point Marion   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities: Birding, Cross Country Skiing, Fishing, Hiking, Wildlife Watching   Details Provided By: Friendship Hill National Historic Site

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. read more...

Phone: (215)389-1513   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Philadelphia   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities:   Details Provided By: GLORIA DEI CHURCH

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. read more...

Phone: (215) 597-8780   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Philadelphia   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities:   Details Provided By: Edgar Allan Poe

Independence National Historical Park, located in downtown Philadelphia, is often referred to as the birthplace of our nation. At the park, visitors can see the Liberty Bell, an international symbol of freedom, and Independence Hall, a World Heritage Site where both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were created. read more...

Phone: (215) 965-2305   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Philadelphia   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities:   Details Provided By: Independence National Historical Park

Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site is one of the finest examples of a rural American 19th century iron plantation. The buildings include a blast furnace, the ironmaster's mansion, and auxiliary structures. Hopewell Furnace was founded in 1771 by Ironmaster Mark Bird. The furnace operated until 1883. read more...

Phone: 610-582-8773   Price Range: $0 - $4   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Elverson   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities: Birding, Cross Country Skiing, Hiking, Wildlife Watching, Nature Walks   Details Provided By: Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site

To properly bury the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg, a Soldiers Cemetery was established on the battleground near the center of the Union line. Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin supported the proposal with state funds to purchase the cemetery grounds and pay for the reinterment of Union dead from inadequate grave sites that covered the battlefield. read more...

Phone: 717-334-1124   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Gettysburg   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities:   Details Provided By: Gettysburg

Steamtown National Historic Site preserves an era that slipped from public consciousness virtually unnoticed. Today, you can relive that era as the fire-breathing behemoths lumber back to life. The cinders, grease, oil, steam and people of railroading have returned. read more...

Phone: (570) 340-5200   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Scranton   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities: Interpretive Programs   Details Provided By: Steamtown National Historic Site