Here's a growing list of local and longer day trips that families in our community explore. If you have suggestions from your experience - your personal favorite trips and locations that you think others would like, too - please email them to Tom Gilbert. These destinations can be within the immediate Newfoundland area, in places like Honesdale, Scranton, and Milford, or day trips in any direction. Check all destinations on the web before traveling; many are closed or have limited hours in non-summer months. Thanks!
Three traditional Paupac family outings
Spanky's Restaurant for breakfast in Newfoundland
Backroads Cafe And Dairy Bar (formerly Angell's) for hard scoop or soft serve ice cream
The GDS Fair in Newfoundland - last week of August/early September
Other Newfoundland destinations
Cakes and Scones Bakery
Dutch's Market
DP Luhrs True Value hardware
Newfoundland Area Public Library
Playing fields, playground, and a lovely nature walk in the park opposite to the Elementary School
Roadside Bistro, think gourmet food truck
Pieces of the Past Antiques
Stevens Farm Market
The Hotel Restaurant
Half-Day Rambles
Promised Land, PA
Masker Museum at Promised Land State Park - CCC museum
Promised Land State Park PA-DSNR
Note: consider hiking or biking from Paupac rather than driving
Bushkill, PA
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
Millbrook Village
Canadensis, PA
Skytop Lodge
Dalton, PA
Manning Farm Dairy - the farm & store - ice cream while chatting with insightful and hilarious cows
Note: other closer locations in Scranton (2), Clarks Summit, and Dunmore
Dickson City, PA
All the big box stores and restaurant franchises
Goodwill
Equinunk, PA
Equinunk Historical Society
Gouldsboro, PA
Gouldsboro State Park PA-DSNR
Hamlin, PA
Ritter's Farm Market
SoulWorks Collective - yoga and self-care services
Weis Markets
Hawley, PA
Cocoon Coffeehouse and Bakery
Delaware & Hudson Canal Park at Lock 31
Ledges Hotel
Ritz Playhouse for live community theater
Settlers Inn
Honesdale, PA
Vinny's Original Brooklyn Bagels
Wayne County Fair
Lake Ariel, PA
Claws 'N' Paws Wild Animal Park
Lacawac Sanctuary biological field station and environmental education center
Varden Conservation Area
Milford, PA
Grey Towers National Historic Site - historic mansion
Hotel Fauchere - restaurant and cafe
Milford Dairy Bar - ice cream
Mt. Pocono, PA
Camelback Camelbeach, Arcadia Adventures, & Aquatopia Indoor Waterpark - outdoor and indoor water parks
The Crossings - outlet store complex
Great Wolf Lodge - indoor water park and restaurants
Kalahari Resort - indoor water park and restaurants
Moosic, PA
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders baseball - Yankees AAA affiliate
Olyphant, PA
Montdale Farm Dairy - ice cream
Prompton, PA
Prompton State Park - hiking
Port Jervis, NY
Port Jervis Transportation History Center
Scranton, PA
Anthracite Heritage Museum
Electric City Trolley Museum - street trolleys
Everhart Museum - natural history, science, and art
Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour - visit an underground coal mine
Nay Aug Park
Steamtown National Historic Site - railroad museum and excursions
PNC Field - RailRiders - Yankees' AAA affiliate
Stroudsburg, PA
Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm
Tobyhanna, PA
Tobyhanna Railroad Station and railroad displays on PA-423
Tobyhanna State Park PA-DSNR
Waymart, PA
Creamworks Creamery - ice cream
Monastery of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk, St. Tikhon's Monastery Bookstore, and Burning Bush Coffee Roasters
White Mills, PA
Costa's Family Fun Park
Dorflinger Glass Museum and Dorflinger-Suydam Wildlife Sanctuary
Dorflinger Factory Museum (these related locations are about a mile apart)
Full-Day Expeditions
Allentown, PA
Dorney Park
Easton, PA
Crayola Experience
Howes Cave, NY
Howe Caverns - underground cavern tours
Jim Thorpe, PA
Rails-to-trails bicycling, white-water rafting, tourist railroad, and lots of unique shopping and eating
Lacawaxen, PA
Delaware Water Gap - National Recreation Area
Roebling Bridge
Roebling Bridge Toll House
Zane Grey Museum - National Park Service
Ramble along the Lackawanna and Erie Railroads, north on I81
3 historic railroad viaducts: Starrucca (1848), Martins Creek (1914), and Tunkhannock (1915) along the I-81 north corridor
US Route 6
Country scenic byway in Pennsylvania between Towanda and Milford
Cooperstown, NY
National Baseball Hall of Fame
Corning, NY
Corning Museum of Glass
The Rockwell Museum
Hudson River Valley, NY
Just a selection:
Kykuit in Sleepy Hollow
Lyndhurst in Tarrytown
Olana in Hudson
Springwood in Hyde Park
And:
Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome & Airshows
Storm King Art Center
Walkway Over The Hudson
Howes Cave, NY
Howe Caverns
New York City, NY
Via train from Port Jervis, bus from Mt. Pocono, or car
Massachusetts / New York border, near Pittsfield, MA
Hancock Shaker Village - MA
Historic Mount Lebanon Site - NY
(note: these are separate sites only about 4 miles apart)
Philadelphia, PA
Via bus from Mt. Pocono or car
Danbury, CT
Danbury Railway Museum
Hartford, CT
Bushnell Performing Arts Center - Hartford
Where does your family explore from Lake Paupac?
