Show cave (state park) · Georges Township, Fayette County
Laurel Caverns
Pennsylvania's largest cave, deep inside Chestnut Ridge, offers guided walking tours, rugged crawling-and-climbing caving trips and a mountaintop view across the Laurel Highlands.
What you will find
- Scenic views
Make a day of it
Nearby
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Fort Necessity National Battlefield
A reconstructed round stockade in a mountain meadow where young George Washington fought his first battle in 1754, opening the French and Indian War, with a visitor center and trails.
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Kentuck Knob
Built of native stone and cypress and tucked into a hillside a few miles from Fallingwater, a later Frank Lloyd Wright house with a woodland sculpture meadow on the grounds.
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Friendship Hill National Historic Site
The country home of Albert Gallatin, Treasury secretary to Jefferson and Madison, on a bluff above the Monongahela River, with woodland trails and river views.
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Ohiopyle State Park
The Youghiogheny roars through a deep gorge here, with Ohiopyle Falls at the edge of the village, whitewater rafting, natural rock waterslides on Meadow Run, Cucumber Falls and the Great Allegheny Passage bike trail.
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Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail
Seventy miles of footpath along Laurel Ridge, from the Youghiogheny River to the Conemaugh Gorge, with mileposts all the way, mountain views and shelter areas for backpackers.
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Great Allegheny Passage
Running 150 miles from Pittsburgh to Cumberland, Maryland, this crushed-limestone rail trail crosses the Eastern Continental Divide and the Youghiogheny gorge at Ohiopyle and links to the C&O Canal towpath.
