Western PA Road Trip – Part 4: Johnstown Flood National Memorial & Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site
May 2, 2026 Today would be the day… I finally would visit my 100th National Park Service unit! I ideally would have accomplished this in 2025, but two trips that would have landed me there didn’t happen: massive road trip to Alaska with Wrangell-St. Elias National Park as #100 (simply just fell through which was…
Western PA Road Trip – Part 3: Fort Necessity National Battlefield, Friendship Hill National Historic Site, and on top of Maryland at Hoye Crest
May 1, 2026 After wrapping up Cucumber Falls (this is a continuation of a very busy day of exploring, and I split the day into two separate blogs – this blog is covering the afternoon activities), I set out on the fifteen minute drive to my 98th National Park Service unit, Fort Necessity National Battlefield.…
Western PA Road Trip – Part 2: On Top of Pennsylvania at Mount Davis, Fallingwater, & Ohiopyle State Park
May 1, 2026 Let’s get this western Pennsylvania exploration on the road! After three days in Pittsburgh for a conference, along with visiting the Flight 93 National Memorial the day prior, I was ready to start checking items off the itinerary I had built. With a less-than-ideal weather forecast, I decided to get an early…
Western PA Road Trip – Part 1: Pittsburgh & Flight 93 National Memorial
There’s just some places that will never make my short-list of places to visit. Not necessarily because they’re bad, but because they have to compete with places like the Sierra Nevada, Wind Rivers, the CDT, the CT, and all the western U.S. national parks for that matter… Enter in Pennsylvania. It is such a place……
Throwback Thursday: Exploring the town burning from below – Centralia, PA
I originally wrote this blog in July 2013 after visiting Centralia, PA on my way to a mountain bike race in Allentown on my cycling blog. I decided it needed to come out of the archives as it is a unique roadside attraction to visit if you’re in the area! A few months ago Matt…
The Adventuring Heidi 