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Lift your spirits this holiday season on the Lehigh Valley Wine Trail, eastern Pennsylvania’s fastest-growing wine region. The award-winning wine trail spreads its nine family-owned wineries and vineyards across six counties near the metropolitan area of Philadelphia. Known for its signature grape, Chambourcin, that all nine wineries grow, the Lehigh Valley Wine Trail is a picturesque romantic getaway during the winter months.

Spend the season on the slopes at Elk Mountain Ski Resort, the premier skiing location in the state of Pennsylvania, just thirty miles north of Scranton. With twenty-seven slopes and trails, a 1000-foot vertical drop, and one of the best views in Pennsylvania, Elk Mountain is one of PA’s best winter adventures.

In the scenic hills of Western Pennsylvania, Mercer County hosts one of America’s largest and most popular shopping centers, the open-air Grove City Premium Outlets. With the absence of a tax on clothing and shoes in PA, Grove City Premium Outlets is a can’t-miss opportunity for great savings this holiday season. Find regular discounts ranging from 25-65% off on your favorite brands like Calvin Klein, Coach, and Kay Jewelers, as well as over 140 more stores and a Pittsburgh Steelers’ official team store.

In Pittsburgh’s famous Cultural District, the August Wilson Center for African American Culture stands as a dazzling, modern beacon of art and social progress. The museum hosts galleries, classrooms, a 500-seat theatre, and a multitude of spaces for visual and performing arts. Since 2009, this building has celebrated the contributions, in all its forms, of African Americans in Western Pennsylvania, and not just those that have been already made.

Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary is a world-famous museum and National Historic Landmark that has kept within its walls notorious criminals such as Al Capone. Its wagon wheel design was revolutionary and its methods of reform through solitary confinement made it a pioneer for its time. Built in 1829, Eastern State was so innovative and radical in its technique of solitary imprisonment that it coined the term “the Pennsylvania system,” further adding to the fame of our state.

Pennsylvania is one of America’s leading producers of apples.

Pennsylvania's Bald Eagle State Park has a vibrant past, rich in history from eras ancient to industrial. Once part of the Great Indian Warpath, the Iroquois traveled past this forest and mountain to reach the southern Cherokee tribe and conduct raids. But millennia before, mountains surged towards the sky in a pre-glacial rippling of the landmasses on a Himalayan scale that left us the impressive range we call Appalachia, with its network of rivers and bowl-like valleys.

The Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor is a historic pathway that once carried coal and iron from Wilkes-Barre to Philadelphia, connecting the abundant natural resources of northern Pennsylvania with one of America's greatest cities and the rest of the world. Once home to the Native American Lenni Lenape tribe, the large region was a major hub of the industrial revolution. Bethlehem Steel, a world-class business of the 19th century, gained international renown by providing the steel for the George Washington, Brooklyn, and Golden Gate Bridges, as well as the steel for the St.

In the northern ranges of Pennsylvania's mountains rests some of the most interesting natural landmarks of our diverse state's environment. Waterfalls cascade down ancient hillsides and seven mountain ranges converge at a single location, creating what sightseers once described as the location of the end of the earth. Located in Luzerne, Columbia, and Sullivan Counties, Ricketts Glen and Worlds End State Parks are two locations in Pennsylvania that define its natural and ancient landscape as one of the most unique environments in the world.