Best non urban areas in Pennsylvania to visit

His Kentuck Knob house is nearby too.

 

Hershey was a stop on my last vacation because I love chocolate. I don't like roller coasters, but Hershey Park is a great place for people who do, and it also has a nice water park right in the middle.

 

Uniontown, that's a nice vacation spot.

 

I can definitely appreciate this post, having driven from Bloomsburg to Ohio for a friend's wedding a decade ago. My husband didn't come until the next day, which means we both made that trip solo. Next time I'd miss the rehearsal dinner rather than do that.

 

Woods and river valleys beat the I-95 corridor all to hell.

 

Big rigs also ride the shit out of that road and cause gullies that pond water like a bitch. Driving that thing in heavy rain was one of the worst drives of my life.

 

One of my favorite drives in America is U.S. 40 from the Maryland border to Washington, Pa. You go through a modest mountain range that is scenic as all and has a few decent locally owned restaurants and bars, some antique places and a vineyard. You will then find yourself at the top of a peak called "The Summit," and it winds down into a valley. (make sure your brakes are good and try to ignore the signs directing runaway trucks to an off ramp of gravel in case their brakes go).

There is a bypass around Uniontown. When you get back on 40 west, you will go through a number of small towns and a lot of rolling farmland. There also are decent neighborhood bars/restaurants. Great food at a place called Rye's Inn and another at Pace's ... they're less than a half-mile apart. In Richeyville, to the right and right on 40, are two bars separated only by a parking lot, the Friendship Lounge and the Blue Diamond. Friendly places with great by-the-drink prices. TVs, pool, etc., old-school working-class joints that used to really hop when the coal mines nearby were operating.

After going through Richeyville and another town called Beallsville, you'll come to Scenery Hill, where a lot of antique places are open. If you haven't eaten, try the Century Inn on the right or the Travelers, outside of town going west.

Eventually you come to I-79 and you can either go to Pittsburgh or Morgantown.

 

I love driving through southern Pennsylvania, specifically Lancaster. The drive between Lancaster and Rising Sun, Md., on U.S. 202 is pretty neat, going right through Amish country. Same for between Lancaster and Newark, Del., on PA/MD/DE 896.

 

Hey, if you get to visit Conneaut Lake, you will get to see the state's lone quadriplex!