The Northwest corner of Pennsylvania features Pennsylvania's only "shoreline" along Lake Erie. This natural playground offers bountiful shores and waterways for fishing, boating, swimming, and tons of other exhilarating activities. The largest city in this area, Erie, in Erie County, also affords the chance to experience some of the best of the "big city" and the beach in one charming town.

The Lakeshore Railway Museum

Since 1970, the Lake Shore Railway Museum has been housed in the former New York Central passenger depot in North East. The museum features a large collection of artifacts such as engineer caps, badges, dining car dishes, signal lanterns, communication devices, photographs, and historical documents. Parked on tracks outside the museum are an original Heisler fireless steam locomotive, a 1922 tank car, a chronology of three refrigerator cars, and dining and sleeping cars -- including a 1926 "Nightstar" sleeping car built by Pullman. The museum is operated by the Lake Shore Railway Historical Society.

Oil Creek & Titusville Railroad
Two-and-a-half hour ride, with an optional stop at Drake Well Museum, home of the first oil well. Features the country's only Railway Postal Card - visitors can send postcards and have them post-marked and sorted while they watch.

1.Lake Erie Region
2.Allegheny National Forest Region
3.Valleys of the Susquehanna
4.Pocono Mountains/Endless Mountains
5.Pittsburgh Region
6.Laurel Highlands/Southern Alleghenies
7.Hershey/Gettysburg/Dutch Country Region
8.Philadelphia and its Countryside/Lehigh Valley