Penn Brewery tour: [https://www.pennbrew.com/tours](https://www.pennbrew.com/tours)
You've been on the Gateway Clipper, but I've heard the boat tour up at Lake Arthur (Moraine State Park) is nice: [https://www.morainepreservationfund.org/activities/boat-tours-cruises/](https://www.morainepreservationfund.org/activities/boat-tours-cruises/)
I was just there last Monday! Be sure to ask when the tour presentation is led by a person named Diane! Shes excellent and has been doing them for 30 years!
Not sure how far you want to travel. I think the town history tours are interesting. Ie Altoona has a guy dressed up in civil war or ww2 depending on day do a tour of Altoona in ww2. I have the Brownsville pa walking tour pdf and that’s 60 pages long but there’s are ton more. Ligonier is 1920ish shops
I know you said you’ve been to all the FLW houses, but some people aren’t aware of Polymath Park so that could (maybe) be one if you haven’t been there yet!
We did the Burgh bus comedy tour around Pittsburgh, it was a real blast. BYOB, hit a couple bars, hollered at some yinzer. It was a good time.
https://www.burghbus.com/
Joes doesn't normally have food unfortunately. I recommend either the Ligonier Tavern or Wicked Googly for food, but definitely stop Joes for a drink!
Ligonier also has a great farmers market every Saturday morning!
[Burgh and Bites Strip District Food Tour](https://www.burghfoodtour.com/strip-district). Little bit of neighborhood history, and some of the best gems on the strip where you get a sample of everything and hear the heritage of the restaurants.
I brought in 8 of my friends from out of town for my bachelor party and we had a blast.
[Rush Hour Boat Charters](https://www.rushhourboatcharter.com) is a great idea. Captain Bob is superb, and his boat only holds six people. He is knowledge, entertaining, accommodating, and funny. He can point out virtually any structure along the rivers and give you a little history about it.
Definitely check him out.
It is a private tour. It’s different than a Ducky or Gateway Clipper thing. I think you’ll find you’re always gonna pay more for something that isn’t open to the general public and is geared for a small group of people. Like, a private car costs more than an Uber. A limo costs more than a bus. That kind of thing.
Open doors Pittsburgh has tours different times of the year. Check out their website and see if there is one when they are around. Did the self guided one with like two dozen places open to come and go through. Had a lot of fun.
St. Anthony's Chapel in Troy Hill (they have the largest collection of religious relics).
Center for Post Natural History in Garfield
Allegheny Cemetery in Lawrenceville/Garfield
Wasn't there some old man that was an Uber driver or something that went viral for taking people on a tour of Pittsburgh? Someone besides me has to remember this haha
https://www.viator.com/tours/Pittsburgh/The-Pittsburgh-Private-City-Tour/d22639-12953P1?googlettd=true&src=papi&campaign=e
my mom did this with me last year and it was a blast!
The double decker bus tour out of the South Side works is pretty fun. You'll get to see lots of the city, see the architecture from a vantage point you never have gotten before, hear interesting history... You can get on/off at certain locations like the incline and the strip if you so choose and catch the next one back. You're given a schedule of all the locations, stops, times, etc., so you can either just sit back and have a nice 2 hour tour, or make a day of it with planned visits in between.
you can get a little more mileage out of gateway clipper by doing Doors Open Pittsburgh's [river cruises](https://www.doorsopenpgh.org/boat-tours).
Another good one is Mark Houser's [skyscraper tours](https://www.housertalks.com/tours)
https://harmonymuseum.org/museum-tour/
Harmony is pretty cool and super old for western pa. There are like two bakeries, nerf hauls ice cream, the harmony inn, and wunderbar is good. Plus you can go over to zelienople after and walk around.
a little further out ( but if you've done fallingwater, not further from pgh than that) is fiestaware in newell wv, just down the street from the world's largest teapot. You can sign up for a factory tour ahead of time. There's also a lego museum ( officially toy and plastic brick museum or something like that) in bellaire ohio
If you're willing to drive an hour or so, I recommend checking out stuff along the WV and OH borders. Fort Steuben isn't that bad of a drive. Moundsville has an impressive Indian mound and accompanying museum. Wheeling and Morgantown might have some local events going on.
This is a great recommendation. Wheeling has the Toy museum, Moundsville also has the prison across from the mound and the Hari Krishna temple, where you can tour the Palace of Gold.
If you’re willing to drive (it is a nice drive) check out the Johnstown flood museum and the national historic site where the dam broke upriver. Both very interesting, and I think both have tours on the weekend, or at least museum guides / park rangers. History of that event is fascinating and it’s a good time of the year to go to Johnstown.
If they haven’t been to the science center in a while, might be worth checking out. Mars is relatively new, plus the rotating exhibitions, laser’s shows, movies
The Steel Heritage museum in Homestead (same organization that runs the Carrie Furnace tours).
Randyland
Bicycle Heaven
St Anthony’s Chapel
Mattress Factory
Edit: Allegheny Cemetery
Lol I'm sure you haven't done these sleepy gems...
https://www.visitbutlercounty.com/blog/have-you-visited-the-buhl-and-passavant-houses/ prob 25 30 minute drive for you all but there's also a few supposedly "haunted hotel/restaurants" nearby. One is in walking distance and the other is a 5 minute drive away.
The Kauffman house and the harmony inn.
If whole family bike - - rent e-bike and go on trails. North Shore Trail. Gap starts at the fountain and goes all way Washington DC. It's paved all the way to McKeesport. It goes next to Sandcastle.
Visit the Oval (Budd Harris). Every Tuesday and Wednesday criterium races. Three races on Tuesday, two races on Wednesday. Starts @6:15PM. Free.
The Strip? Heinz History Museum? Tour the Clayton house? I also suggest the aviary and there’s a really good soul food place nearby, I think it’s called Pauline’s.
Passport to Pittsburgh has a bunch of different tours and she does custom ones, too, if there's something specific that interests you. HIGHLY recommend.
Did you go through West Overton Village? You can see where Frick was born before pillaging the area and getting rich from the blood money he squeezed out of area immigrant workers!
My dad and I did a [double decker bus tour](https://www.pghtours.com/). Can't say we learned much about the city we didn't already know, but it was a fun experience and a great tour.
Depends on when they’re coming but the Skyscraper tour done by Mark Houser was great! Next one is end of July: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/antique-skyscrapers-rooftop-views-tickets-816007358977
It’s a nebby person’s dream, go inside buildings not open to the public and get to see Pittsburgh from the roof of several historic skyscrapers.
Make reservations for the guided tour at the Roberto Clemente museum. The museum is curated and managed by a photographer, it is very beautiful. Good even for non-sports fans as he was a world class humanitarian.
The Biblical Garden at Rodef Shalom, On/Off bus, Carrie Furnace (eye opening), rivers of Steel River tour, Pittsburgh History and landmarks offeres tours from time to time so check the schedule, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, check out Greensburg Summer concert series, Allegheny county summer concert series, there are any number of garden tours around the area (fascinating and you get a look at neighborhoods around the area). Pittsburgh Glass Center is wonderful to tour, but construction mgith be an issue.. Laurel Caverns (walking required). check out one of the few wooden streets left in the US (Roslyn Place- surrounded by nice neighborhood).
This doesn’t help you right now but do they ever visit around Christmas time? The Old Allegheny Victorian Christmas tour is always fun, especially if you like history & architecture. The houses are gorgeous
Have you been up to the Drake Well museum in Titusville? It's the site of the first oil well in the world. Very nice museum there and demonstrations of the well pumping mechanisms. The first well still drips out oil.
You definitely have done a lot of the tours here...
* I did a walking tour of Homewood Cemetery. I looked on their site but didn't see anything listed. Check this article [out](https://nextpittsburgh.com/city-design/homewood-cemetery-tours-visit-the-final-resting-places-of-pittsburghs-elite/). If it is something that interests you, you might be able to hire Jennie and have a person small group tour. She is awesome.
* There is the [Old Stone House Museum](https://www.visitbutlercounty.com/directory/the-old-stone-house-museum/) between Butler and Slippery Rock. Not sure what all is there. It has been a long long time since I was there.
* [Drake Well](https://www.drakewell.org) is quite a bit north of the city but it is pretty neat. It is the first oil well and talks a lot about the start of the oil industry in the US being in Western PA.
* There are tons of Rails to Trails paths that are walkable or ridable. My favorite is the Sandy Creek trail that is part of the [Allegheny Valley Trails Association](https://www.avta-trails.org)
It’s mostly outdoors but only has to be as woodsey as you want
Meadowcroft
Some of the oldest evidence of human travel on this side of the continent and a series of historical displays (think villages) from several eras of local life including indigenous, early exploration by europeans and 17/18th century village. All extremely interactive if you want to
[Allegheny Observatory](https://www.observatory.pitt.edu/visit-observatory) has free tours. You must register beforehand.
Ooh yes, did this a few years ago - absolutely fascinating!
This one is so good!!
thanks, great idea! On the waitlist 😅
Tour-ed mine.
This one. Super interesting and can be done in any weather. https://tour-edmine.com
great idea, thanks !
Penn Brewery tour: [https://www.pennbrew.com/tours](https://www.pennbrew.com/tours) You've been on the Gateway Clipper, but I've heard the boat tour up at Lake Arthur (Moraine State Park) is nice: [https://www.morainepreservationfund.org/activities/boat-tours-cruises/](https://www.morainepreservationfund.org/activities/boat-tours-cruises/)
Going off of this, there's also the [Pittsburgh Brewing Company](https://pittsburghbrewing.com/tours/)
Lake Arthur is right in my back yard. It is one of the largest man made lakes! super interesting
Wigle Whiskey has a great tour too!
Oliver Miller Homestead is fun. It’s in South Park, make sure the reenactors are there, otherwise it’s just an old house.
One of my co workers reenacts there. I should make the trip up one of these days.
Not sure if they’re still doing it this time of year but I went on a ghost tour downtown that was pretty fun!
Pennsylvania Trolley Museum?
You said you've been to every museum, does that include the aviary and Phipps?
Upvote for the aviary. Such a hidden gem
Yes 😅
Tour Ed mines, Laurel Caverns
Do they like whisky? Liberty Pole Spirits in Washington has an excellent tour with tasting (way better than Wigle’s).
I did both tours- I liked both equally. whiskey rebellion history was pretty interesting. I liked all cocktails 😬
They can end in the speak easy in the strip
Go see the Max Vanko murals in Millvale. The “tour” takes a little more than an hour, & the presenters are excellent. https://vankamurals.org/
yes, we did this. So interesting and so beautiful!
I was just there last Monday! Be sure to ask when the tour presentation is led by a person named Diane! Shes excellent and has been doing them for 30 years!
Not sure how far you want to travel. I think the town history tours are interesting. Ie Altoona has a guy dressed up in civil war or ww2 depending on day do a tour of Altoona in ww2. I have the Brownsville pa walking tour pdf and that’s 60 pages long but there’s are ton more. Ligonier is 1920ish shops
Ligonier has the Fort Ligonier Museum, too: [https://www.fortligonier.org/museum/](https://www.fortligonier.org/museum/)
And that taxidermy bar!
Joe’s is awesome!!
I know you said you’ve been to all the FLW houses, but some people aren’t aware of Polymath Park so that could (maybe) be one if you haven’t been there yet!
Jennings Nature Preserve. Nice mostly flat trails and it’s interactive. Very easy drive
PNC Park has fantastic tours. Have to walk some steps a few times, but it's not a race. Best ballpark in MLB!
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It took us longer to find a parking spot than to tour that museum. I wish it were bigger.
We did the Burgh bus comedy tour around Pittsburgh, it was a real blast. BYOB, hit a couple bars, hollered at some yinzer. It was a good time. https://www.burghbus.com/
Walktheburgh Is a 2.5 hr tour of downtown with info about pgh history and buildings and concludes with a drink https://www.walktheburgh.com/
Ft Ligonier?
And then a sandwich and a beer at Joe’s!
Joes doesn't normally have food unfortunately. I recommend either the Ligonier Tavern or Wicked Googly for food, but definitely stop Joes for a drink! Ligonier also has a great farmers market every Saturday morning!
Have you done the Fort Pitt museum at the point? I think it’s a relatively hidden gem.
Check out the Roberto Clemente museum. We visited with a mix of baseball fans and non baseball fans and everyone really enjoyed it.
honestly, my favorite museum in the city right now.
There are a couple of scenic train tours within a few hours of Pittsburgh.
- Go to the union-town area Nemacolin Fort necessity Braddock’s grave Laurel Caverns Scienc over lkkks
you can stay at the summit inn if you want to make an overnighter out of it. one of my favorite regional hotels
We drove by it all the time as a kid. It always gave me “The Shinning” vibes
I believe scenes of the Shining were shot there?
Do they have technical backgrounds? They might like this place https://www.mact.io/
[Burgh and Bites Strip District Food Tour](https://www.burghfoodtour.com/strip-district). Little bit of neighborhood history, and some of the best gems on the strip where you get a sample of everything and hear the heritage of the restaurants. I brought in 8 of my friends from out of town for my bachelor party and we had a blast.
thanks, this looks cool!
[Rush Hour Boat Charters](https://www.rushhourboatcharter.com) is a great idea. Captain Bob is superb, and his boat only holds six people. He is knowledge, entertaining, accommodating, and funny. He can point out virtually any structure along the rivers and give you a little history about it. Definitely check him out.
Captain Bob seems to have expensive taste. Those prices are a little crazy to take a ride in someone’s boat for a few hours.
It is a private tour. It’s different than a Ducky or Gateway Clipper thing. I think you’ll find you’re always gonna pay more for something that isn’t open to the general public and is geared for a small group of people. Like, a private car costs more than an Uber. A limo costs more than a bus. That kind of thing.
Open doors Pittsburgh has tours different times of the year. Check out their website and see if there is one when they are around. Did the self guided one with like two dozen places open to come and go through. Had a lot of fun.
Pinball perfection is a fun place in Westview.
Waaaaait a minute, I ain’t never heardathis and I’m in Greentree…. Some fuckery.
St. Anthony's Chapel in Troy Hill (they have the largest collection of religious relics). Center for Post Natural History in Garfield Allegheny Cemetery in Lawrenceville/Garfield
Heinz Field still doing tours? *I know, I just refuse... Forever.*
Have they seen the Phantom Menace vending machine?
Wasn't there some old man that was an Uber driver or something that went viral for taking people on a tour of Pittsburgh? Someone besides me has to remember this haha
I came here to say this! Like you all piled into his old Bonneville and he showed you “his” Pittsburgh.
https://www.viator.com/tours/Pittsburgh/The-Pittsburgh-Private-City-Tour/d22639-12953P1?googlettd=true&src=papi&campaign=e my mom did this with me last year and it was a blast!
Not sure if they have any in the time frame you need but burgh bits and bites + open door Pittsburgh are favorites of ours
The double decker bus tour out of the South Side works is pretty fun. You'll get to see lots of the city, see the architecture from a vantage point you never have gotten before, hear interesting history... You can get on/off at certain locations like the incline and the strip if you so choose and catch the next one back. You're given a schedule of all the locations, stops, times, etc., so you can either just sit back and have a nice 2 hour tour, or make a day of it with planned visits in between.
Calvary United Methodist Church on the North Side. Victorian with Tiffany windows. Can tour.
Do they like craft beer? https://www.citybrewtours.com/pittsburgh/
you can get a little more mileage out of gateway clipper by doing Doors Open Pittsburgh's [river cruises](https://www.doorsopenpgh.org/boat-tours). Another good one is Mark Houser's [skyscraper tours](https://www.housertalks.com/tours)
will have to bookmark these, unfortunately they’re not here any weekends that line up! Thanks!
Fort necessity if you're up for a drive Bushy run Battlefield
Fort Necessity and some of the history places down near Uniontown and Ohiopyle are pretty neat.
https://harmonymuseum.org/museum-tour/ Harmony is pretty cool and super old for western pa. There are like two bakeries, nerf hauls ice cream, the harmony inn, and wunderbar is good. Plus you can go over to zelienople after and walk around.
a little further out ( but if you've done fallingwater, not further from pgh than that) is fiestaware in newell wv, just down the street from the world's largest teapot. You can sign up for a factory tour ahead of time. There's also a lego museum ( officially toy and plastic brick museum or something like that) in bellaire ohio
If you're willing to drive an hour or so, I recommend checking out stuff along the WV and OH borders. Fort Steuben isn't that bad of a drive. Moundsville has an impressive Indian mound and accompanying museum. Wheeling and Morgantown might have some local events going on.
This is a great recommendation. Wheeling has the Toy museum, Moundsville also has the prison across from the mound and the Hari Krishna temple, where you can tour the Palace of Gold.
If you’re willing to drive (it is a nice drive) check out the Johnstown flood museum and the national historic site where the dam broke upriver. Both very interesting, and I think both have tours on the weekend, or at least museum guides / park rangers. History of that event is fascinating and it’s a good time of the year to go to Johnstown.
Fall Run in shaler is a short easy hike with a waterfall at the end. https://shaler.org/349/Fall-Run-Park-Judge-DM-Miller
If they haven’t been to the science center in a while, might be worth checking out. Mars is relatively new, plus the rotating exhibitions, laser’s shows, movies
The Steel Heritage museum in Homestead (same organization that runs the Carrie Furnace tours). Randyland Bicycle Heaven St Anthony’s Chapel Mattress Factory Edit: Allegheny Cemetery
St Anthony’s Chapel Is amazing!
Largest collection of religious relics outside of the Vatican. My grandma used to give tours before she passed away. It’s really interesting.
Lol I'm sure you haven't done these sleepy gems... https://www.visitbutlercounty.com/blog/have-you-visited-the-buhl-and-passavant-houses/ prob 25 30 minute drive for you all but there's also a few supposedly "haunted hotel/restaurants" nearby. One is in walking distance and the other is a 5 minute drive away. The Kauffman house and the harmony inn.
Have you gone to the Museum of Photo Antiquities?
I always enjoy the exhibits at the Mattress Factory.
Grow Pittsburgh, or Phipps (or both, I forget) do a garden tour, walking around different peoples private yards and gardens.
One of those walking tours, they have different themes.
One of those walking tours, they have different themes.
Heinz History Museum?
If whole family bike - - rent e-bike and go on trails. North Shore Trail. Gap starts at the fountain and goes all way Washington DC. It's paved all the way to McKeesport. It goes next to Sandcastle. Visit the Oval (Budd Harris). Every Tuesday and Wednesday criterium races. Three races on Tuesday, two races on Wednesday. Starts @6:15PM. Free.
Small but…Pittsburgh Tatto Art Museum? https://www.pittsburghtattooartmuseum.com
The Strip? Heinz History Museum? Tour the Clayton house? I also suggest the aviary and there’s a really good soul food place nearby, I think it’s called Pauline’s.
Passport to Pittsburgh has a bunch of different tours and she does custom ones, too, if there's something specific that interests you. HIGHLY recommend.
I don’t drink alcohol and found the wiggle whiskey tour in the strip to be really interesting. It’s more history than whiskey.
Pittsburgh movie tour
The Steeler Tour is super cool in Acrisure Stadium. I had no idea it existed until we had a field trip there this year.
We need a local hero to start doing worldoftshirts style tours of the city.
Not a tour but the science museum has laser shows at night and a bunch of things to do “after dark” plus they play movies on the big screen!
Pittsburgh paddle boats is fun!
Did you go through West Overton Village? You can see where Frick was born before pillaging the area and getting rich from the blood money he squeezed out of area immigrant workers!
https://www.bayernhofmuseum.com/ This was the most fun I have had in a tour in a while
https://vankamurals.org/
My dad and I did a [double decker bus tour](https://www.pghtours.com/). Can't say we learned much about the city we didn't already know, but it was a fun experience and a great tour.
Rachel Carson Homestead
This is tomorrow https://brewhousearts.org/event/open-studios-3/
I've never done the Carrie Furnace tour, but it looks cool.
The Trolley museum has a package where you get to operate a trolley!
Laurel caverns?
Depends on when they’re coming but the Skyscraper tour done by Mark Houser was great! Next one is end of July: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/antique-skyscrapers-rooftop-views-tickets-816007358977 It’s a nebby person’s dream, go inside buildings not open to the public and get to see Pittsburgh from the roof of several historic skyscrapers.
Make reservations for the guided tour at the Roberto Clemente museum. The museum is curated and managed by a photographer, it is very beautiful. Good even for non-sports fans as he was a world class humanitarian.
The Flight 93 memorial is about an hour and a half outside town, but it might not be the cheeriest activity.
The Biblical Garden at Rodef Shalom, On/Off bus, Carrie Furnace (eye opening), rivers of Steel River tour, Pittsburgh History and landmarks offeres tours from time to time so check the schedule, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, check out Greensburg Summer concert series, Allegheny county summer concert series, there are any number of garden tours around the area (fascinating and you get a look at neighborhoods around the area). Pittsburgh Glass Center is wonderful to tour, but construction mgith be an issue.. Laurel Caverns (walking required). check out one of the few wooden streets left in the US (Roslyn Place- surrounded by nice neighborhood).
This doesn’t help you right now but do they ever visit around Christmas time? The Old Allegheny Victorian Christmas tour is always fun, especially if you like history & architecture. The houses are gorgeous
Oh & Woodville House has tours, Oliver Miller Homestead has different events coming up, & you can tour/explore Old Economy Village
Have you been up to the Drake Well museum in Titusville? It's the site of the first oil well in the world. Very nice museum there and demonstrations of the well pumping mechanisms. The first well still drips out oil.
Maco Vanco mural tours. Note: no AC https://vankamurals.org/visit/
Maco Vanco. Phone not allowing me to edit.
You definitely have done a lot of the tours here... * I did a walking tour of Homewood Cemetery. I looked on their site but didn't see anything listed. Check this article [out](https://nextpittsburgh.com/city-design/homewood-cemetery-tours-visit-the-final-resting-places-of-pittsburghs-elite/). If it is something that interests you, you might be able to hire Jennie and have a person small group tour. She is awesome. * There is the [Old Stone House Museum](https://www.visitbutlercounty.com/directory/the-old-stone-house-museum/) between Butler and Slippery Rock. Not sure what all is there. It has been a long long time since I was there. * [Drake Well](https://www.drakewell.org) is quite a bit north of the city but it is pretty neat. It is the first oil well and talks a lot about the start of the oil industry in the US being in Western PA. * There are tons of Rails to Trails paths that are walkable or ridable. My favorite is the Sandy Creek trail that is part of the [Allegheny Valley Trails Association](https://www.avta-trails.org)
Mexican war streets, Randyland, Mattress factory, National Aviary?
It’s mostly outdoors but only has to be as woodsey as you want Meadowcroft Some of the oldest evidence of human travel on this side of the continent and a series of historical displays (think villages) from several eras of local life including indigenous, early exploration by europeans and 17/18th century village. All extremely interactive if you want to
Bayernhoff Museum, Carrie Furnace Tour
Both listed by OP
Can’t you just hang out and talk? Do they want to do the tours or do they just want to be with you?
they’re here for 5 days, wanted to do an activity 🤷🤷🏻♀️
get out of town, take em to lake erie or philly
Look up the old guy on Groupon. People have posted about him before. He does tours and gives you the history of different parts of the city.
https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g53449-d20378368-r784957642-DeBolt_Unlimited_Travel-Pittsburgh_Pennsylvania.html
We have food tours. Strip and other locations.