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12 Reasons To Make A Philly Visit This Fall
This Year’s Autumnal Pleasures Come In The Way Of Scenic Drives, Annual Events And More
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12 REASONS TO MAKE A PHILLY VISIT THIS FALL
This Year’s Autumnal Pleasures Come In The Way Of Scenic Drives, Annual Events And More
 PHILADELPHIA, February 11, 2008 - One new museum, four scenic drives and seven annual events give visitors a dozen reasons to visit Philadelphia this fall. The opening of the Please Touch Museum in its new Fairmount Park location is a great reason for families to make a trip. For couples who need a push to start planning, a picturesque drive through each of the city’s distinct and lush countryside regions should be the perfect lure. And, of course, everyone can spice up a stay at one of the many autumnal events that locals look forward to year after year. IIt’s easy to spend two nights any night of the week with the Philly Overnight® Hotel Package, available all year at www.gophila.com. Here are reasons to start planning:  Memorial Hall, future site of Please Touch Museum Photo by J. Smith for GPTMC
Beginning October 18, 2008, taking kids to the Please Touch Museum, the nation’s premier children’s museum, will be a completely reinvented experience when it opens the doors to its new home in Fairmount Park. The location in Memorial Hall—a National Historic Landmark built in 1876 for the Centennial Exhibition—will boast three times more space for exhibitions and programs. Just outside the museum, kids and adults will also delight in riding the meticulously restored 1924 Dentzel Carousel, built in Philadelphia for a now-defunct amusement park 10 blocks from Memorial Hall. www.pleasetouchmuseum.org
Road Trips To Remember:
Autumn’s colors beckon visitors to the roads of the Philadelphia region for relaxed days of dining, shopping and outdoor exploration. With Center City as the starting point, visitors can hop in the car and spend days exploring each of the city’s distinct and lush countryside regions:
- Bucks County: One of America’s most noted drives for leaf-peeping, Route 32 clings to the Delaware River along the eastern border of Bucks County while paving the way for stops at antique shops, art galleries, historic sites and upscale restaurants.
- Chester County: It’s hard to beat the vistas of horse and wine country when they’re ensconced in the brilliant yellows, oranges and reds of fall. But in Chester County, it gets even better than that. With its generous helping of lively towns and pre-19th-century wood and stone structures added to the visual beauty, Chester County has all the makings of an idyllic fall drive and overnight stay.
- Delaware County: Drivers follow a popular bicycling route westward through leafy suburban neighborhoods and picturesque seats of higher learning to the gently sloping countryside that famed Brandywine School painter Andrew Wyeth employs as his artistic muse. After tasting from some of Pennsylvania’s sweetest grape-growing vines, it’s eastward to dine and doze in charming Media.
- Montgomery County: Montgomery County is home to a cornucopia of well-preserved and decoratively foliated historic mansions and farmsteads, inns and battlefields that can proudly claim “Washington slept here” and an intricate pattern of scenic roads just made for a Sunday drive.
Annual Events Not To Miss:
- Throughout the Everything Autumn festival at Longwood Gardens, monster pumpkins, unusual gourds, a garden railway, a tractor display and live entertainment convert the floral sanctuary into an autumnal wonderland. September 8-November 18. (610) 388-1000, www.longwoodgardens.org
- The annual Scarecrow Festival (September 13-14) at Peddler’s Village celebrates the season with scarecrow displays, pumpkin-painting workshops and pie-eating contests, while the annual Apple Festival (November 1-2) honors the fruit with old-fashioned country apple butter, apple cider, apple dumplings, apple fritters and caramel-dipped apples. (215) 794-4000, www.peddlersvillage.com
- Thrill-seekers celebrate the Halloween season at Eastern State Penitentiary by visiting Terror Behind the Walls, a spooky haunted house inside an abandoned prison. September 19-November 1. (215) 236-3300, www.easternstate.org
- Dozens of fine art galleries gather for the USArtists: American Fine Art Show, an art expo and sale benefiting the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at the 33rd Street Armory. October 17-19. (215) 972-7639, www.usartists.org
- The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology presents Treasures…From the Silk Road to the Sante Fe Trail, a show and sale of exceptional fine art, antiques and textiles from Asia, Africa, Oceania and the Americas. October 24-26. (215) 898-9213, www.museum.upenn.edu/treasures
- Handmade textiles, jewelry and housewares of the highest quality are on view and for sale at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. November 13-16. (215) 684-7930, www.philamuseum.org/pmacraft
- Channel 6 ABC and Boscov’s sponsor Philadelphia’s annual Thanksgiving Day Parade down the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. November 27. (215) 581-4507, www.wpvi.com
The Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation (GPTMC) makes Philadelphia and The Countryside® a premier destination through marketing and image building that increases business and promotes the region’s vitality. For more information about travel to Philadelphia, visit www.gophila.com or call the Independence Visitor Center, located in Independence National Historical Park, at (800) 537-7676. Note to Editors: For photos of Greater Philadelphia, visit our Photo Gallery. CONTACT: Cara Schneider, GPTMC
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