We challenge you to ride (and/or roll) the entire Great Allegheny Passage this year! Your adventures will take you soaring over valleys and rushing waters, through tunnels, across the Mason & Dixon Line, and to the top of the Eastern Continental Divide. A charming chain of hospitable trail towns awaits your arrival with lodging and services perfect for day trips, overnights, and thru-rides. Joining […]
Great live music, food trucks, and the best local brews are all part of the West Newton Night Market, held the second Thursday evening of each month, April through October, in West Newton. Ride or hike the Great Allegheny Passage, and then enjoy sunsets over the Youghiogheny River with friends. Or plan your next thru-trip […]
Join Haiti H2O for one of several fully-supported rides on the Great Allegheny Passage this summer! From a family-friendly 15-mile loop or a one-day ride from Homestead to Connellsville, an all-weekend 150-mile trek, or the entire Pittsburgh-to-DC journey, you'll have fun! And the money you raise will invest in Haitian-led initiatives in remote villages, like […]
Ride the Great Allegheny Passage out to Ohiopyle for Maker Days, a free, all-ages community series celebrating hands‑on artmaking, live demonstrations, and a curated outdoor maker market in the former Falls City Church sanctuary and grounds. Each event features a rotating mix of artist tents, hands-on activities, live demonstrations, and other engaging experiences with clay, […]
The Mt. Davis Challenge Road Race is a 40/56 mile bicycle race that traverses the highest point in Pennsylvania. The course is "lollipop style," starting in Confluence, and utilizes the hilly back roads of the Mt. Davis area and climbs to an elevation of 3,213 feet. Once over the top, bicyclists descend on the eastern […]
Ride out to Connellsville to watch a crowd of over 800 intrepid individuals attempt to break the Guinness World Record for longest line of swim rings and tubes, followed by a complimentary day-long festival! Live entertainment on multiple stages, food trucks, and craft vendors will be set up in Yough River Park, and the record-attempters […]
Stop by the lovely community of Whitsett, a patch town populated by descendants of coal miners and home to a lovely afternoon community appreciation day. The grill will be hot, and the lemonade on ice, and friendly neighbors will greet you and tell about this quiet spot along the Great Allegheny Passage. There's a baseball […]
Plan a weekend on the Great Allegheny Passage and plan to watch the amazing Over the Falls race, a spirited kayak competition that consists of a two-foot ledge, four-foot ledge and the eighteen-foot Ohiopyle Falls. The course is approximately a quarter-mile in length, and is considered a class IV run. This is a gnarly section […]
Pick a summer evening to bike from the Great Allegheny Passage over to the McKeesport International Village, an annual ethnic heritage and food festival held at McKeesport's rose-rich Renziehausen Park. Over three days, visitors indulge in a variety of cuisine from all over the globe, including Poland, Greece, Hungary, Lebanon, Ireland, Vietnam, and Italy, just […]
This fall festival celebrates vintage farm equipment, from antique tractors to steam-powered threshers and straw-balers to corn shellers, all on display in their mechanical glory. Noisy demonstrations abound!
Walk or ride the Great Allegheny Passage to checkpoints near West Newton to pick up playing cards in a competitive, fun morning outdoors. At the end of the event, each poker hand is tallied and the person with the best hand in each category receives a prize. Raffle prizes will be available after 10:00 am, […]
Spend an overnight in Cumberland and enjoy part of the trail town's famous Heritage Days Festival -- and the official start of fall! Four charming days of live music, arts and crafts vendors, yummy festival food, children's activities, historic interpretation, and walking tours await you. Explore the Allegany Museum, wander Canal Place, shop for local […]
