Pennsylvania is a state filled with great railroad history, from the first steam locomotive to operate in America, to the Horseshoe Curve and the Pennsylvania Railroad. Today, many excursion railroads and railroad museums continue to maintain that tradition throughout the state. One of the most…
Trough Creek State Park, located along the southeastern banks of Raystown Lake, is one of Pennsylvania’s most beautiful state parks. While it gets somewhat overshadowed by the many recreational opportunities on the lake, Trough Creek State Park packs a lot of great things to see…
When most people head to the lake, they are looking for relaxation on the water, the opportunity to go fishing, or maybe for some fun sports on the water. However, some visitors to Raystown Lake don’t even realize that there’s a lake there. Instead, they…
Raystown Lake in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, is the largest lake that’s entirely within Pennsylvania. Completed by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1973, the lake covers nearly 13-square miles and 110 miles of shoreline. Much of this shoreline is undeveloped, giving Raystown Lake a great…
There are many great show caves in Pennsylvania, but, with the possible exception of Indian Echo Caverns near Hershey, none of them as easy to reach as Lincoln Caverns. Located along Route 22, just a few miles west of downtown Huntingdon, Lincoln Caverns’ history and…
Set on a peaceful stretch of land on a ridgeline above Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, the Isett Heritage Museum, also known as the Isett Acres Museum, looks unremarkable from the outside. In fact, you could be forgiven for driving right past it, assuming it to be no…
The rural countryside of Huntingdon County is a bit of a strange place for a trolley museum. After all, trolleys used to run in large cities and out to their suburbs, but the closest trolley line to Rockhill, Pennsylvania, ran in Huntingdon, more than 20…
Billed as the world’s oldest automobile museum, the William E. Swigart, Jr. Automobile Museum (or Swigart Museum) is a bit different from many of the other automobile museums I’ve visited in Pennsylvania. Unlike many other museums, like the AACA Museum in Hershey, the Swigart Museum doesn’t…
When I’m traveling throughout Pennsylvania, I’m always on the lookout for unique places to stay. So, when I visited Huntingdon County and Lake Raystown, I started looking for places to stay that were right on the lake, the largest that’s entirely within Pennsylvania. I was…
As far as summer destinations in Pennsylvania go, Raystown Lake in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, is just about perfect. In fact, it’s one of my favorite counties in Pennsylvania for outdoor activities. Raystown Lake is over 8,000 acres in size and has 118 miles of shoreline,…