Nanticoke

Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, offers several distinct points of interest for a trip: the city’s history, art on the college campus, guided tours, and access to a trail for hiking and biking. If you’re looking for a vacation rental in Nanticoke, you can consider which of these interests you’d like to shape your stay. This makes it possible to get to know the area from both a cultural and an active perspective.

City History and Cultural Heritage

The Nanticoke Historical Society is located at 495 East Main Street. It preserves and shares the city’s cultural heritage through research resources and its quarterly publication, Nanticoke Legacy. This gives anyone interested two different ways to explore Nanticoke’s past: research resources and a regularly published read that comes out four times a year.

The society was founded in 1995, when several of the city’s historic sites were demolished. This timing is part of the background to its work on Nanticoke’s cultural heritage. Anyone interested in local history will find a concrete starting point for learning about the city, complementing visits to art and campus sites that reveal other sides of the area.

Art and Tours on the College Campus

The Schulman Gallery is on the second floor of the LCCC Campus Center, Building 14, on the main campus of Luzerne County Community College in Nanticoke. It presents work by regional artists and hosts community and juried art exhibitions. The venue and the two formats mentioned provide a clear point of reference for visitors interested in art: the focus is on work from the region and different forms of community-based and juried presentation.

Luzerne County Community College offers guided tours of its main campus in Nanticoke. The Carrozza Health Sciences Center also offers tours of about an hour at its location in the city. Tours of the Joseph A. Paglianite Culinary Arts Institute also last about an hour and include the teaching kitchens and classrooms. If you’d like to plan a guided look at a campus or specific learning spaces during your stay, these options differ mainly in location and the scope described. No duration is specified for the main campus tours; the other two tours are each listed as lasting about an hour.

Outdoor Activities and Choosing Where to Stay

Nanticoke provides good access to Canal Park. The Susquehanna Warrior Trail is also easily accessible from Nanticoke and is suitable for hiking and biking. Alongside the cultural points of interest, there are also opportunities to get outdoors and be active. If you’d like to combine your trip with a hike or bike ride, the trail is a distinct reason to consider Nanticoke as a base; Canal Park adds another destination to your stay.

There is also a current restriction to keep in mind when planning your route: the Nanticoke/West Nanticoke Bridge over the Susquehanna River is currently closed. Take this into account if your planned drive requires crossing via this bridge.

When choosing a vacation rental in Nanticoke, you can use the focus of your trip as a guide: city history and art, guided campus visits, and activities on the Susquehanna Warrior Trail each appeal to different interests. If you’re traveling with family or a group, you can discuss in advance which of these experiences would be most interesting to everyone. This lets you compare possible places to stay based on the kind of trip you have planned, without needing to combine the different offerings into a single route.

More Places

You can also visit the pages for Avoca, Hazleton, Freeland, Drums, Sugarloaf, Wilkes-Barre, Kingston and Milnesville for more information.

For the broader travel overview: Luzerne.