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Riverfront Park
The park offers year-round outdoor activities including exercise stations, bike lanes, and trails for joggers and hikers, and features the Walnut Street Bridge—a popular pedestrian walkway that connects Harrisburg’s downtown and Riverfront Park with City Island.
Travel time: ~5 minutes…
PA National Fire Museum
Enter the 1899 Victorian Firehouse, Home of the Reily Hose Co. No. 10 and experience the sights and sounds of Firefighting History. The Pennsylvania National Fire Museum features fire apparatus from Handtubs and Steam Pumpers, hand drawn to horse drawn, …
U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center
The U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC) makes available contemporary and historical materials related to strategic leadership, the global application of Landpower, and U.S. Army Heritage to inform research, educate an international audience, and honor Soldiers, past and present.…
Susquehanna Art Museum
Nestled within the Capital City’s emerging midtown neighborhood in a newly reclaimed building, the Susquehanna Art Museum serves as a catalyst in the Commonwealth to offer educationally superior programming and diversely extraordinary exhibitions.
- Travel time: ~10 minutes
- Tuesday–Saturday, 10:00 AM
The Hershey Story Museum
This museum experience examines the journey of Milton Hershey from failed entrepreneur to chocolate king and philanthropic benefactor. Explore the history of Hershey in an educational and immersive environment, well-suited for both adults and kids.
- Open 9:00am–5:00pm in February.
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Whitaker Center
The Whitaker center has an iMax cinema, a science museum and shows on its list of offerings. As “one place to discover it all,” there’s truly something for people of all ages.
- Open Tuesday–Saturday, 9:30am–5:00pm and Sunday, 11:30am–5:00pm.
- Travel time:
State Museum of Pennsylvania
The official museum of everything Pennsylvania was created in 1905 for the collection, preservation, research and interpretation of cultural and natural history of the state.
- Open Wednesday—Saturday, 9:00am-5:00pm and Sunday, Noon—5:00pm.
- Travel time: ~10 minutes
Fort Hunter Mansion and Park
The park commands a magnificent view of the Susquehanna River and Blue Mountains beyond.
- The park is open 8:00am-Dusk daily. The Mansion is closed December 23rd—April 30th.
- Travel time: ~15 minutes
National Civil War Museum
The museum has a mission of serving as a national center to inspire lifelong learning of the American Civil War through the preservation and balanced presentation of the American peoples’ struggles for survival and healing.
- Open 9:00am—5:00pm daily, except opens
Eastern Museum of Motor Racing
While this museum strongly reflects the popularity of the open wheel, dirt track racing so popular throughout the northeast, you can also see a wide variety of racing machines from many other forms of racing including sprint cars, midgets, stock …
