National historic site · Juniata Township, Blair County
Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site
Remains of the 1830s railroad that hauled canal boats over the Allegheny Mountains on inclined planes, with a historic tavern, trails and the first railroad tunnel in the country.
What you will find
- Historic features
- Hiking trails
- Visitor center
Make a day of it
Nearby
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Horseshoe Curve
The great 1854 railroad curve that carried the Pennsylvania Railroad over the Alleghenies, still busy with freight trains and viewed from a trackside park reached by funicular.
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Railroaders Memorial Museum
The story of the workers who built and ran the Pennsylvania Railroad's great shops here, told in the former master mechanics building; the museum also runs the Horseshoe Curve visitor center.
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Blue Knob State Park
Pennsylvania's second-highest mountain rises above remote woods with long views and cool summer air, with a swimming pool and campground below and a ski resort on its upper slopes.
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Canoe Creek State Park
A big colony of bats summers in an old church and winters in a former limestone mine here, alongside historic lime kilns, a lake with a beach and trails through woods and wetlands.
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Prince Gallitzin State Park
Glendale Lake reaches into many wooded coves across the high Allegheny Plateau, with a long shoreline for boaters and anglers, a big campground and a swimming beach.
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Johnstown Flood National Memorial
The remains of the South Fork Dam, whose collapse on May 31, 1889 unleashed the flood that killed more than 2,200 people downstream, with a visitor center telling the story.
