Deep Creek Lake, Maryland
FreeMaryland's largest freshwater lake, ringed by state parks, ski slopes, and mountain resort towns in the Appalachian highlands.

Springs Museum is a museum in Springs, PA, part of the Pittsburgh guide. Cost: under $25. Open Saturdays 9am-2pm, seasonal through mid-September.
1711 Springs Road · Springs, PA
The Springs Historical Society operates the Springs Museum of the Casselman Valley, displaying roughly 4,000 artifacts covering settler life in northern Garrett County, Maryland and southern Somerset County, Pennsylvania from the 18th century into the 1980s. Exhibits recreate period kitchen, bedroom and sitting-room settings and include a farm-equipment annex and a textile building with spinning wheels and looms. The society also runs the annual Springs Folk Festival and the Dr. Schrock Nature Trail.
The closest stops to Springs Museum, ordered by straight-line distance. A few more like it, plus some different kinds of fun so you can build a full day.
Maryland's largest freshwater lake, ringed by state parks, ski slopes, and mountain resort towns in the Appalachian highlands.
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Tour the Frank Lloyd Wright house built partly over a waterfall on Bear Run, then walk the wooded grounds.
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Guided tours of a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Usonian home overlooking the Youghiogheny River gorge.
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Look out over the Cheat River canyon from sandstone cliffs, hike more than 50 miles of trails and see an 1830s iron furnace.
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See mounted dinosaur skeletons, minerals and gems, ancient Egypt and Arctic life across 20 galleries.
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Walk through galleries of painting, sculpture and design, plus a hall filled with full-size plaster casts of historic buildings.
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