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Ligonier's Iconic Diamond Bandstand Aglow for the Holidays

By Erin Cavuto for The Pioneer Woman Who else has spent afternoons dreaming of stepping foot into the cozy, wintery towns of

Fall foliage makes its way to Pennsylvania

By Beth Kracklauer for The Wall Street Journal AN ASPECT I wasn’t prepared for when I started driving a convertible: the

By Bob Batz for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette One recreational trail through the Laurel Highlands got longer this month — the

By Steve Barrett for Greene County Messenger With fall officially here, the time has come to watch the green leaves of

Leaf-peepers, get ready for spectacular fall season

By Karen Mansfield for Observer Reporter Pennsylvanians are lucky to live in one of three regions in the world where

By John Shumway for KDKA CBS Pittsburgh While so many other things about 2020 have been strange, a seasonal favorite is

49 of the best hiking trails in the US to visit in your lifetime

By Theresa Christine for Business Insider If you're looking for a change of scenery, it's time to put on some hiking shoes

Fall Escapes on the Byways and Blueways of the Blue Ridge

By Jess Daddio for Blue Ridge Outdoors As the humidity finally gives way to cooler temperatures, fall colors emerge

By Amy Brecount White for Bethesda and Arlington Magazines On a sunny Saturday in June, Ohiopyle is a happy jumble of

By Shirley McMarlin, Tribune-Review Paul Nieman of Ligonier and his yellow Lab, Lily, hike all around Forbes State Forest,

By Gretchen McKay for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette OHIOPYLE — Nature rules in this quaint little spit of a town along the

By Shirley McMarlin, Tribune-Review Thanks to interest in the region’s thriving craft beverage industry, the Laurel

By Shirley McMarlin, Tribune-Review There’s a nip in the air and some tint in the trees. It’s time to start planning your

By Heather Abraham for Pittsburgh Today Live Pittsburgh Today Live's Heather Abraham talks with Anna Baird, the creator of

Fall Foliage Facebook and Instagram Post

By 10Best Editors, USA Today As summer winds to a close, temperatures are beginning to drop and Mother Nature is gearing up

By Kaitlin Miller for The Active Times The Tallest Buildings, Best Bridges and Most Beautiful Homes in America America is

BY TALIA AVAKIAN FOR TRAVEL+LEISURE Summer often means days spent cooling off in the water, and nature offers plenty of

By Jeremy for Discover the Burgh The Great Allegheny Passage is a rail-trail leading out of Pittsburgh that can only be

By Rusty Glessner for PABucketList.com The Laurel Highlands of Western Pennsylvania (Somerset, Fayette, and Westmoreland

By Jim Cheney for UncoveringPA When you think of Frank Lloyd Wright-designed buildings in Pennsylvania, it’s likely that the

By Julie McCool for 365AtlantaTraveler With amazingly beautiful beaches, awe-inspiring mountains, the Appalachian Trail,

By Kristy Alpert & Jayme Moye for Fodor's Travel Leaf viewing is one of the easiest (and least expensive) ways to experience

By Jim Cheney for UncoveringPA.com Throughout Pennsylvania, there are many fantastic vistas that provide amazing and unique

By Julie McCool for FuninFairfaxva.com Spark the flames of love with these 22 fabulous romantic getaways from Washington

By Arthi Subramaniam for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Main Street in Ligonier packs a whole lot of food and history into its

By Bob Batz, Jr. for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette You have to love how some Western Pennsylvanians make the most of winter

By Malerie Yolen-Cohen for GetawayMavens.com GetawayMavens.com, bringing you the best weekend getaways in the Northeast, is

For Reservations.com Known for their heart-warming cards, Hallmark has capitalized on finding those moments that inspire

By Lillie Marshall for Around the World L Main Exhibit in Ligonier, Pennsylvania = WOW. Whether you’re seeking unique gift

By Julie McCool for Fun in Fairfax Plan a Laurel Highlands getaway with our guide to 15 fantastic things to do near

By Karyn Locke for Sand and Snow Are you headed to Seven Springs Ski Resort and ready to hit the slopes but not sure your

By Liz Mays for Eat Move Make Looking for things to do in the Laurel Highlands in the fall? This seemingly remote

By Amber Guetebier for Red Tricycle With the release of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood , you just might notice more than

By Chris Rodell for USA Today For much of the world, The Land of Make-Believe is a fabled state of mind. But in Fred Rogers'

By Mary Pickels for Tribune-Review This year’s winning images for the Laurel Highlands Visitors Bureau’s 15th annual Laurel

By Mary Pickels for Tribune-Review West Overton Village and Museums in East Huntingdon anticipates reviving its own history

By Karyn Locke for Sand and Snow Laurel Highlands in fall is an outdoor lover’s dream. And when the leaves are turning

By Jeremy Jones for Discover the Burgh In the mood for a haunted house while exploring the Laurel Highlands? Huston's

By Liz Mays for Eat, Move, Make It may not be ski season just yet, but the ultra-fun Seven Springs Autumnfest event gives the

By Charles McCool for McCool Travel For any upcoming romantic vacations, treat your sweetheart to more than just a romantic

By Ollie Gratzinger for Pittsburgh Magazine Laurel Highlands is promoting local breweries with its new Pour Tour — a

By Stephanie Kalina-Metzger for The Burg News Autumn is the perfect time to take a road trip to the Laurel Highlands, where

By Kathleen Ganster for North Hills Monthly Fall is the perfect time for a drive through the hills of western Pennsylvania,

By Bob Batz, Jr., for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Laurel Highlands Pour Tour is a new self-guided experience that allows

By Lillie Marshall for Around the World L A Master Class in How to Be Inclusive… You don’t realize how NOT inclusive much of

By Glenda Booth for Beacon Newspapers There are many good finds in Pennsylvania’s Laurel Highlands, an undulating countryside

By Lindsay Davies for I've Been Bit Pennsylvania is full of amazing destinations and the Laurel Highlands is definitely one

By Hilary Daninhirsch for North Hills Monthly Though some folks make their way to New England to see the splendors of fall

By Bob Batz, Jr. for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A hundred years ago, the Army conducted a cross-country convoy on the partially

By Lillie Marshall for Around the World L See the hometown of Fred Rogers in Pennsylvania! Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood was a

By Jeremy Jones for Discover the Burgh We are big fans of caves, and in southwest Pennsylvania, our options to go underground

By Lillie Marshall for Around the World L The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art: Wow. Two of my favorite categories of

By Jim Cheney for UncoveringPA.com In the mid-1700s, old Native American trails that were turned into rough roads during

By Bob Downing for Columbus Monthly Ohiopyle State Park Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania Drive from Columbus: 3.5 hours Ohiopyle State

By Amanda Emmerling for Toddling Traveler Idlewild and SoakZone is set in Pennsylvania’s beautiful Laurel Highlands, just a

By Bob Batz Jr. for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Whiskey Rebellion Trail, launching on Friday, will connect for booze and

By Bob Batz Jr., for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette West Overton has its still back. The Westmoreland County village was settled in

By Jeremy Jones for Discover the Burgh When it comes to Frank Lloyd Wright in the Laurel Highlands, you likely know of

By Margaret Smykla for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A virtual time capsule welcomes visitors to the new Westmoreland County

By Mary Pickels for Tribune-Review Pennsylvania’s Laurel Highlands will be featured in an upcoming episode of “Beyond Your

By Patrick Clarke for Travel Pulse and MSN Travel Latrobe, Pennsylvania The birthplace of Fred Rogers, host of the Mister

By Linda Vaccariello for Cincinnati Magazine America wasn’t settled at highway speeds, and some of the towns that made our

By Keryn Means for WalkingOnTravels.com Maple syrup. It reminds us of cold winter mornings when we were kids and mom (or

By Judy Ellich for Daily American The first time state Rep. Wendy Ullman visited the Flight 93 memorial, she called it “a

By Jeff Himler for Tribune-Review The transportation-themed Lincoln Highway Experience museum in Unity played host Thursday

By Andrea Sachs for The Washington Post When the journey is paved with beef, mollusks or cardigans, the destination is

By Karyn Locke for Sand and Snow Learning the ins and outs of a large ski resort, especially when it’s your first visit, can

By Jim Cheney for UncoveringPA.com Located deep in the woods of the Laurel Highlands is one of Pennsylvania’s best Frank

By Jim Cheney for PennLive.com There are many great regions of Pennsylvania to visit, but one of my favorites is the Laurel

By Jeff Himler for Tribune-Review Keystone State Park hides few sites around its 78-acre lake that Carolyn Anderson hasn’t

By Lynn Coulter for Travel Channel Online Latrobe, Pennsylvania Recently listed in Smithsonian Magazine as one of "The 20

By Jim Cheney for PennLive.com Now that it's 2019, you might be thinking about what to do in Pennsylvania in the coming

By Bob Batz for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Fallingwater is again nominated to be added to the World Heritage List by UNESCO,

By Karyn Locke for "Pittsburgh Today Live," KDKA-TV Travel blogger Karyn Locke talks about the top destinations for winter

By Jody Arneson for Mid-Atlantic Day Trips Fort Ligonier is a French and Indian War-era British fortification that served as

By Renee S. Gordon for Philadelphia Sun Pennsylvania’s Laurel Highlands, recognized for its sheer beauty, inspires visitors

By Malerie Yolen-Cohen for Getaway Mavens Greensburg PA: Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg. This small county

By Don Hopey for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Two whitewater rafting guides from Ohiopyle, who performed a dangerous river

By Anietra Hamper for PlanetWare Everything is large on the mighty Youghiogheny River, from the rapids to the fish. It is

By Ashley Murray for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette In the GI Dayroom Coffee Shop in Meyersdale, locals have been meeting for

By Jeremy Jones for Discover the Burgh Fort Necessity was the site of a battle in 1754 that, quite literally, shaped the

By Carl Hedinger for Travel Through Life I met Doug Riegner (pictured above, right) while biking the famed GAP Trail in

By Lillie Marshall for Around the World L Nature holds and heals us. Just over an hour south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

By Scott Berney for Take Back Roads I recently attended a three-day tourism conference at the gorgeous Nemacolin Woodlands

By Anne Schuhle, Buffalo News Petite, pleasant, and all of 90 years old, MaryLou Fisher sits nestled in a floral channel-back

By Benjamin Mikek, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Latrobe is known to many Western Pennsylvanians as the onetime home of Fred

By Malerie Yolen-Cohen, Getaway Mavens The Laurel Highlands region of Western PA, about an hour southeast of Pittsburgh, is

By Jim Cheney, UncoveringPA Without a doubt, one of my favorite places to visit in Pennsylvania is Ohiopyle State Park, and

By Lillie Marshall, Around the World L A day visiting Fallingwater is luscious, but add a hilarious sign and peaches to the

By Mary Pickels, Tribune-Review The new copper still commanding center stage inWest Overton Village and Museum’s stock barn

By Anya Sostek, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette They were the titans of industry, science and politics, capable of doing nearly

Bu Lillie Marshall, Around the World L We had a problem with Oak Lodge bed and breakfast hotel in southwestern Pennsylvania:

By Stephen Huba, Tribune-Review The Pennsylvania Tourism Office on Friday unveiled a three-day road trip that memorializes

By Laura Liniry, Smithsonian Magazine He may have been everyone’s favorite neighbor, but the small western Pennsylvania town

By Bob Bazt, Jr., Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh has a wealth of outdoorsy attractions all around, many of which are even

By Bob Batz, Jr., Pittsburgh Post-Gazette On a Saturday evening in late April, we drove northeast on scenic state Route 981,

By Bob Batz, Jr. for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Even for someone who grew up paddling on whitewater and competing at kayaking,

By Sue Eisenfeld for Washingtonian Some people record all the birds they observe, ticking them off from a list of about

By Fadra Nally for She's On The Go When you think of Pennsylvania, you probably think of a few things: Pittsburgh,

By Marilyn Odesser-Torpey for Main Line Today In spring, everything’s in bloom—including the impulse to come out of winter

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