If you like celebrations, you're in luck!
Whether you prefer ski festivals in a winter wonderland, firework displays to ring in the new year, or arts & music festivals in the summer sun, Northeastern Pennsylvania will definitely provide you with reason to celebrate!
First Night Scranton gets the year started in style. First Night is a major visual and performing arts festival created to ring in the New Year. Every December 31, First Night, under the able direction of Scranton Tomorrow, draws thousands of people - young and old alike - to Downtown Scranton. The night is capped with a spectacular fireworks display over Courthouse Square.
In the winter, local ski areas celebrate with winter carnivals, parties and even the Keystone State Games for the more athletic among us.
Every March, Scrantonians have more fun than human beings should be allowed to have, when Downtown Scranton plays host to the nation's fourth largest Saint Patrick's Day Parade. Everyone's Irish at this " Mardi Gras of Scranton." Scranton's downtown (especially its pubs) go all-out for this event which draws more people than there are coins in a pot of gold!
Spring and summer festivities include cherry blossom and wine tasting festivals, the Moscow Music & Arts Festival, 4th of July fireworks set to live music from the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, and, something you have to see to believe, Saint Ubaldo Day in the town of Jessup.
Chicago claims to have the best pizza in the world. Hah! We laugh in the face of Chicago too! The best pizza in the world is really in Scranton. See for yourself at LaFesta Italiana, the best excuse around to feast on all kinds of delicious Italian cuisine, including the world's best pizza. This annual Labor Day weekend festival draws tens of thousands to Courthouse Square.
Fall transforms Scranton into a canvas full of red, orange, yellow, and green, a perfect setting for hayrides, Halloween tricks and treats, and Oktoberfest celebrations. And each year, about 25,000 people gather in downtown Scranton for the Greater Scranton JAYCEES Santa Parade.
History buffs, collectors, art lovers and architecture junkies will find Scranton to be a treasure trove, with attractions as diverse as they are plentiful. In Greater Scranton you can climb on powerful steam locomotives, eyeball moon craters through a telescope lens made in 1882, see one of the world's most impressive collections of Dorflinger glass and inspect a Czech Torah that survived the Holocaust. You can travel 300 feet below the earth's surface in a real coal mine, see a full-scale stegosaurus skeleton, peer into 150-year old massive blast furnaces and visit an actual basilica. At our many art galleries you can purchase some of the best works from our local artists and keep busy critiquing the many touring exhibits.
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