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The attractions featured on this page are all within the range of an easy and enjoyable day trip from Pumpkin Pine Farm.
Exhibiting over 100 classic and antique automobiles, the Northeast Classic Car Museum in Norwich NY features some of the most important cars in automotive history.
 Elmira NY to our west is not only the former home of Mark Twain (he is buried there), but aviation buffs will be interested in a visit to historic Harris Hill. Pack a picnic lunch and enjoy the magnificent views of the Chemung Valley from Harris Hill Park on top of the hill. Then visit the National Soaring Museum, an aviation museum working to preserve the history of motorless flight.
 For those adventurous folks who may want to actually participate in unpowered flight, the Harris Hill Soaring Center next to the museum offers glider rides.
And in the valley below, you can visit the Wings of Eagles - The former National Warplane Museum.
 Just a few miles beyond Elmira, is Corning NY and the famed Corning Museum of Glass. See the world's largest single piece of glass, the 21 ton, 200 inch mirror originally cast for the Hale Telescope at Mt. Palomar in California. Tour the glass art exhibits. Watch the Corning craftsmen produce fine Stuben Glass pieces. You can even learn to blow your own glass!
 Enjoy hiking or biking? Just to our south in Pennsylvania you will find the D&H Rail-Trail which runs from the NY border just south of Windsor to Simpson PA. The O&W trail runs from Simpson to the Delaware River at Hancock NY. Both trails are run by the Rail-Trail Council of Northeastern PA.
A local organization, Friends of the Susquehanna River Rail-Trail, is working to develop a trail that will run from the D&H trail at the PA border to Harpursville NY. When complete this new trail will pass just across the river from Pumpkin Pine Farm.
Beautiful Ithaca NY, New York State's Finger Lakes Region and the New York Wine Country are all an easy day trip from Pumpkin Pine Farm.
 Some 50 miles to our south, in Scranton PA, you can find one of world's greatest railroad museums, the US National Park Service's Steamtown National Historic Site. There you can see the worlds largest steam locomotive, the Union Pacific's Big Boy, you can watch an authentic steam era railroad in actual operation, and you can ride a steam powered passenger train.
Sports fans can drive a few miles north on I-88 to Oneonta NY to see the National Soccer Hall of Fame, then drive on a few more miles to the world's famous Baseball Hall of Fame in beautiful Cooperstown NY. |
