Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Travel Guide 2025
Magical Winters
2024-11-28 10:05:30
Lace your ice skates, shop ‘til you drop, and bring a hearty appetite to winter celebrations.
Dilworth Park, located next to the majestic Philadelphia City Hall, transforms Center City into a sparkling winter destination brimming with seasonal attractions, activities, and free special events. Discover a dazzling ice skating rink, playful topiary-filled Wintergarden, and enticing holiday market stocked by local vendors. Then, warm up by a fire pit or relax with comforting refreshments in a cozy chalet.
Christkindlmarkt, a German-style holiday market in Bethlehem — aka The Christmas City — earns national accolades for its staggering selection of arts and artisan crafts, including Käthe Wohlfahrt ornaments from Germany. Visit with St. Nicholas, watch glass blowers and ice sculptors in action, or sample strudel and bratwurst in a glittering setting. Rent skates and glide across the ice skating rink with towering historic steel blast furnaces as a dramatic backdrop.
Embodying the quaint charm of Bucks County, Holidays at Peddler’s Village in Lahaska boasts more than a million lights that illuminate the distinctive shops, fun-to-fine dining eateries, and spirited tasting rooms nestled amid winding brick walkways. Also in Peddler’s Village, Giggleberry Fair offers a bounty of family fun, from photos with Santa to riding an ornate vintage carousel.
Tucked within the bucolic Susquehanna River Valley, the Mifflinburg Christkindl Market celebrates the area’s German heritage with an authentic market. For three lively days, streets are lined with outdoor huts offering handmade crafts and traditional foods, plus musical performances, folk dancing, marionette shows, and church suppers.
While Downtown Pittsburgh thrums with urban excitement, Peoples Gas Holiday Market adds a vibrant dimension to seasonal merriment. Wooden chalets set an alpine ambience as local artisans tempt shoppers with everything from gorgeous glass ornaments to decadent sweet treats. Live music by local favorites, food trucks, and mulled wine brighten spirits.
For one magical day a year, the picturesque Northern Tier town of Wellsboro steps back in time for a Dickens of a Christmas. The community dons their finest Victorian garb as musicians, dancers, and strolling carolers entertain shoppers perusing the goods of street vendors and local merchants, and roving costumed characters recite lines from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
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