The Johnstown Flood National Memorial is a great local place to visit year round. This is the site of the historic South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club with its lake and dam. When you arrive, you can enter the two story Lake View Visitor Center, watch an award winning movie about the flood, and peruse …
This weekend I made a quick stop at an old factory in Punxsutawney, which opened it’s doors for a gathering of vendors hawking their goods. The building was a silk mill in the 19th century and has since been turned into a space for vendors of antique, artisan and hand made goods. The Nomadic Trading …
Cambria County’s Ghost Town Trail is a great local place for winter activities. During the 1800’s the railroad was big business in this area. Transporting coal, lumber and people, train tracks spread far and wide across Pennsylvania. As the train spread and more lumbering and coal mining began to take place, more company towns began …