With seven photos. Roadside America, a toy train set on steroids that was lovingly built into a museum and once-popular Berks County tourist spot, has gone out of business after 85 years. Blame COVID-19.
Travels Edition
There's no swimming allowed in Lake Nockamixon, 28 miles northeast of Pottstown, but the state park that surrounds it features one of Pennsylvania's larger swimming pools. It's a half-acre huge.
Friday was the first day coronavirus lockdown orders were lifted at Beltzville State Park in Carbon County, 54 miles north of Sanatoga. By Saturday, plenty of people were enjoying sunny time there.
A portion of Ridley Creek in Ridley Creek State Park, Delaware County PA, is regulated and protected, but it's a year-round haven for fly fishing.
With video and six photos. Travel with The Post to Bethlehem PA, "The Christmas City" that's only an hour's drive from Pottstown, for the closing sights of its Christkindlmarkt holiday show.
Flour, water, yeast, butter, sugar, salt. It doesn't take much to make a pretzel, but to create a good time with pretzels takes imagination, some cooking artistry, and the folks in Lititz PA.
How do you use a bathroom in the cold, dark, vast reaches of outer space? Well, an astronaut explained Saturday, it takes practice.
Discoveries on The Road
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