Named one of “America’s Favorite Towns” by Travel + Leisure Magazine, New Hope is a small town 45 minutes outside Philadelphia with an old world charm. Among the town’s treasures is the Delaware Canal, where visitors can walk or bike along a portion of the 60-mile-long towpath offering scenic views of the canal and surrounding foliage.

The New Hope & Ivy Railroad offers visitors a 45-minute narrated ride aboard a 1925 steam train from New Hope to Lahaska. A walk down New Hope’s Main Street reveals an art gallery featuring local artists, independent shops, homespun restaurants, and a live summer theater.

Chanticleer Garden (40 minutes) Doylestown (1 hour) Baltimore (1 hour) Longwood Gardens (50 minutes) Ricketts Glen State Park (2 hours, 35 minutes) The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania Lapp Valley Farm (1 hour, 20 minutes) Six Flags Great Adventure (1 hour) Gettysburg National Military Park (2 hours, 30 minutes) Knoebels Amusement Resort (2 hours, 35 mins) Atlantic City (1 hour, 10 minutes) Battleship New Jersey (20 minutes) Lambertville (50 minutes) New Hope and Ivyland Railroad (45 minutes) Winterthur Museum and Country Estate (50 minutes) Hershey's Chocolate World (2 hours) New York City (1 hour 30 minutes) Susquehanna River Valley (2 hours, 40 minutes) Cape May (1 hour 40 minutes) Tuckahoe-Corbin City Fish and Wildlife Management Area (1 hour, 15 minutes) Belleplain State Forest (1 hour, 10 minutes) Wharton State Forest (50 minutes) Long Beach Island (1 hour, 30 minutes)

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