Around Montrose PA: the 1848 Starrucca Viaduct, Binghamton's free carousels, Endicott-Johnson's Square Deal, IBM's Endicott birthplace, and the man who gave America its farms. Stay at La Crescenta.
Around Port Jervis NY: the Hawk's Nest cliff road, NJ's highest peak, Grey Towers — birthplace of American conservation — Roebling's aqueduct, and 133 years of Erie Railroad history. Stay at the Tri-State A-Frame.
The land of the blue smoke: Cherokee homeland, the logging era that nearly felled the Smokies, and the grassroots campaign that built America's most-visited national park. Stay at the Smoky Dens.
From the 1829 Kittatinny House to the heart-shaped tub and the "Honeymoon Capital of the World" — the true, colorful history of the Poconos resort era, and your hideaway in Lake Ariel.
The iron forge on the Little Pigeon River and the passenger pigeons that named it — the true story of Pigeon Forge, from Isaac Love's 1817 bloomery to the Old Mill and Dollywood.