Official Travel & tourism website for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Runs an excellent website…read moreand publishes a quarterly magazine, Pursuits. Pursuits follows people around and interviews them, about the comings and goings of their town, its historical significance, shopping, fishing, boating, fun things to do, and even weird spooky things! Pursuits is also available in PDF format on their website. I have been a member since 2005, they also send you a free travel & tourism map that has all sorts of interesting things highlighted.
This is how I plan a lot of my trips, travels and visits. Mainly I go to admission free state parks and historical points of interest (millersburg ferry, pa grand canyon, hessian powder magazine, railroad museum of pa, daniel boone homestead, pa lumber museum, presqueisle park, ephrata cloister, cornwall furnace, pa renaissance faire, etc)
The website has apparel for sale, pre-planned roadtrips, a shunpikers guide, civil war trails, things to do, and much much more. It is very current and up to date. It has several different Regions: Philadelphia & Countryside, Dutch Country Roads, the Alleghanies & her Valleys, Northeast Pennsylvania Mountains, Great Lakes, Pittsburgh & Countryside and my favorite: Pennsylvania Wilds.
The Pennsylvania Wilds is my favorite because it's so remote, peaceful and quiet. It is a haul to get there, and current gas prices dont help, but it's nice if you take about 2 - 3 days and turn it into a long weekend. It has an abundance of things to do: dozens of Parks, with lakes to go boating, trails to go hiking galore, horses & covered wagons for rent on the Rail Trails, you could watch a hang glider or spot an elk maybe! On one trip to Bennezett Pa we spotted 23 elk in a one day period.