This is a gentle sloping loop trail with little gradient change.
It is Ideal for the Whole family and even for cross-country skiing.
Area: Blue Knob Area
Distance: 2.5 Miles
Difficulty: Moderate
Loops? Yes
This is a gentle sloping loop trail with little gradient change.
It is Ideal for the Whole family and even for cross-country skiing.
Area: Blue Knob Area
Distance: 2.5 Miles
Difficulty: Moderate
Loops? Yes
Easy hike through the forest. Not quite as flat and easy as the Lake Shore Trail, but still fine for most children. If you want a longer hike, combine with Shawnee’s Field Trail.
Area: Shawnee Area
Distance: 2 Miles
Difficulty: Easy
Loops? yes
GPS Games is a wonderful family activity. You can do one or more of these puzzles as you have time. Three puzzles include location searches: Name the American Presidents, the Everett Tour and the Bedford Cemetery Tour. Puzzle Number Four is only possible once you have accurately compiled info gathered from the first three puzzles. You can decipher that info and use it to unlock the Treasure Chest in the Bedford County Visitors Bureau Welcome Center at 131 South Juliana St. in Bedford, PA
The Bedford County Visitors Bureau conducts tours of Historic Bedford on Friday afternoons from June through the end of October. The tours begin at the visitors bureau office at 3:30 and conclude around 5:00 PM. The Visitors Bureau Office is located at 131 South Juliana Street in downtown Bedford.
The tour is free! If you’d like to take the guided tour, call the Visitors Bureau at (800)765-3331. Reservations aren’t required, but we’d love to know if you plan to attend.
On 1,000 acres of rolling hills in Somerset, PA, the International Conservation Center is the perfect landscape to focus on conservation science, wildlife management, and education. Open only by appointment, Visit the website to learn more.
A beautiful trail, most of it on pea gravel. Fine for biking and you can push a stroller on most parts of the trail! Picnic tables. Little elevation change. Practically a sidewalk!
Area: Shawnee Area
Distance: 3.4 Miles
Difficulty: Easy
Loops? Yes
This brochure is an architectural tour of Bedford, PA. Follow the text or use your smart phone or Internet-ready device to watch the videos as you walk through the town and learn some things about architecture.
The first coast-to-coast road passes directly through Bedford County. Experience the Lincoln Highway in our county and visit the historic sites along the way.
This is also a 90 minute drive but is comprised of scenic farm valleys, an architectural marvel and some obscure Civil War history.
Designed to appeal to kids, although grown-ups seem to like it too. Bison and some big trout are waiting to meet you on the Critter Tour.
Veterans Grove is in downtown Bedford, at the corner of Penn and Juliana Streets. If you’d like the info brochure (very helpful) call the Visitors Bureau at (800)765-3331 for your free copy.
Bedford County is in South Central PA along the PA Turnpike, Route 30 (Lincoln Highway), I-99 and I70.
