does any one know if any NON train related things to do in steam town pa or close by. things for a 6 year old girl would like to do.
thanks for all the help.
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Well it is along side of the Mall. So perhaps the wife and her could shop as you are there. The mall has a boardwalk along the rear of it that overlooks Steam Town itself. You could also take the train to Moscow PA if perhaps she has any interest in that.
There is a walking bridge that leads to the mall from the Steamtown yard area. Tell her to have fun. Steamtown doesn't have any refreshments or food services. Those are available at the mall food court. .
Be careful crossing tracks.
Plan you trip to include the shop tour. An NPS ranger guided tour of the shop area only available at certain times. Shop tours are usually about an hour, unless there is some one like me asking too many questions.
Access to the walking bridge is behind the BigBoy 4012
A few miles up Route 6 is the shopping mecca of the east in a little town named Dickson City. Every east coast chain store is represented including Macy's, Toys R Us, Wal Mart et al. At the far end of this shopping city is a 16 screen multiplex that includes an IMAX. Further up Route 6 is the low tech Circle Drive In, open week ends in the summer with a flea market each Sunday (admission 50 cents). The Circle has been in continuous operation since about 1949. Right across Route 6 from the Circle, is the Idle Hours Lanes, rehabbed only once since it opened in 1958. NO duck pins!
Further afield are the Pocono mountains and Lake Wallenpaupack. In Scranton is a never to be forgotten coal mine tour where you can see how both my grandfathers and other relatives made a living (!?!) a hundred years ago. There are city and county parks nearby.
I grew up in Dickson City and still get back there once a year for a kilbasi and Stegmaier beer run. Also Gryzboski's.
At the north end of Steamtown's parking lot is Electric City Trolley Museum. There are all sorts of exhibits and a ride through a long tunnel under the city of Scranton.
There are some child oriented activities at both Steamtown and the trolley museum. which has rides to the Lackawanna Stadium. Others mentioned the Mall at Steamtown, which now is nearly a ghost town with the mall in bankruptcy, and many of the stores closed. The Lackawanna Station is kind of interesting. There are The Shops At Montage in nearby Moosic, along with the minor league baseball Stadium. Coney Island Hot Dogs next door to Scranton Hobby. There is a water park at the top of Montage Mountain, and Nayaug Park and the Eberhard Museum in Scranton, along with the Iron Furnaces.
Don
Grzyboski's Train Shop is on the outskirts of town. Lots of fun for O gauge guys, there, maybe not so much for a young girl.
