Places outside Berks County worth the drive, for when you want to get out of the county and go do something. Each one shows how far the drive is from Reading, what it costs and when it’s open.
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Ephrata, PA · 30 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
Historic Ephrata Cloister is a preserved 18th-century religious community in Ephrata, PA, established in 1732 and run by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. It is a National Historic Landmark.
East Earl, PA · 34 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
Shady Maple Smorgasbord is a Pennsylvania Dutch buffet restaurant in East Earl, PA, sharing an 11-acre plaza with the Shady Maple Farm Market and the Shady Maple Gift Shop.
Breinigsville, PA · 36 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
Grim's Orchard & Family Farms is a pick-your-own orchard and fall festival farm in Breinigsville, PA, with a corn maze, hayrides, a petting farm and a play corral on Schantz Road.
Lititz, PA · 36 minutes from Reading
Oregon Dairy is a family farm with a supermarket, restaurant and ice cream shop on Oregon Pike in Lititz, PA, plus The Farmstead's corn maze, pumpkin patch and escape room in fall and Christmas at The Dairy in the holiday season.
Lancaster, PA · 37 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum in Lancaster, PA is the state's museum of Pennsylvania German history, heritage, lifeways and farming, administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Lancaster, PA · 38 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
Hands-on House is a nonprofit children's museum on Landis Valley Road in Lancaster, PA, built for children ages 2 to 10, with indoor play exhibits and an outdoor adventure garden.
Lititz, PA · 39 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
Julius Sturgis Pretzel Bakery is a historic pretzel bakery with guided tours in Lititz, PA. It dates to 1861 and calls itself the first commercial pretzel bakery in America.
Chester Springs, PA · 40 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
Milky Way Farm is a working dairy farm with its own ice cream shop, Chester Springs Creamery, in Chester Springs, PA. The Matthews family has farmed its 103 acres since 1902, and it opens for pumpkin picking and a corn maze each fall.
Breinigsville, PA · 40 minutes from Reading
Valley Preferred Cycling Center is an outdoor velodrome for track cycling in Breinigsville, PA, which the site also calls T-Town. Established in 1975, it hosts Friday night professional racing under the lights.
Lititz, PA · 40 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
Wolf Sanctuary of PA is a refuge for gray wolves and wolf-dogs on Speedwell Forge Road in Lititz, PA. The only way to see the wolves is on a reserved guided tour or at an event.
Spring City, PA · 41 minutes from Reading
Pennhurst Asylum is a haunted attraction on the grounds of the former Pennhurst State School and Hospital in Spring City, PA, with four walk-through attractions on fall nights plus daytime history tours.
Lancaster, PA · 43 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
The Lancaster Science Factory is a hands-on, interactive science center in Lancaster, PA, for kids in Pre-K through 8th grade and their families. Admission is good for the whole day.
Stevens, PA · 43 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
Refreshing Mountain Retreat & Adventure Center is a zipline and aerial adventure park on 100 acres of woodland in Stevens, PA, 25 minutes north of Lancaster, with cabins and a retreat center on the same grounds.
Lancaster, PA · 43 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
Tiny Town is an indoor play place in Lancaster, PA, built as a kid-sized village of 12 furnished playhouses, from a fire station, hospital and market to a salon, post office and castle, with a coffee bar for the grown-ups.
Lancaster, PA · 44 minutes from Reading
The Lancaster Stormers are an Atlantic League professional baseball team that plays at Penn Medicine Park, 650 North Prince Street in Lancaster, PA.
Pottsville, PA · 45 minutes from Reading · Free
The Yuengling brewery on Mahantongo Street in Pottsville, PA is the one the company calls America's Oldest Brewery, and it gives free guided tours Monday through Saturday.
Lancaster, PA · 46 minutes from Reading
The Fulton Theatre is a professional regional theatre producing musicals and plays at 12 North Prince Street in Lancaster, PA.
Intercourse, PA · 46 minutes from Reading · Free
Kitchen Kettle Village is an outdoor shopping village in Intercourse, PA, built around a working canning kitchen, with shops, restaurants and an inn on Route 340, 10 miles east of Lancaster city.
Lancaster, PA · 46 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
LancasterHistory is a history museum and research center in Lancaster, PA, on an 11-acre campus with President James Buchanan's Wheatland, the 1828 home of the 15th U.S. president, and the Tanger Arboretum.
Lancaster, PA · 46 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
The North Museum of Nature and Science is a natural history and science museum in Lancaster, PA, with a planetarium, rotating exhibits and a live animal room.
Bird-in-Hand, PA · 47 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
Bird-in-Hand Stage is a live theater on the banquet level of the Bird-in-Hand Family Restaurant & Smorgasbord in Bird-in-Hand, PA, playing family shows, comedy and holiday musicals from April through December.
Lancaster, PA · 47 minutes from Reading · Over $50 a person
Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre is a 320-seat dinner theater in Lancaster, PA, that serves a buffet before professional musicals and plays all year.
Manheim, PA · 47 minutes from Reading
The Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire is a weekend Renaissance festival on the grounds of Mount Hope Estate & Winery in Manheim, PA, with jousting, stage shows and craft merchants across 35-plus acres.
Lancaster, PA · 47 minutes from Reading
Prima Theatre is a concert and contemporary theatre company in Lancaster, PA, performing in its own boutique space at 941 Wheatland Avenue.
Lancaster, PA · 48 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
American Music Theatre is a 1,600-seat live performance theatre on Lincoln Highway East in Lancaster, PA, staging touring concerts, tribute shows and its own original Christmas Show.
Lancaster, PA · 48 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
Amish Farm & House is a 15-acre farm with an 1805 farmhouse, a one-room schoolhouse and farm animals in Lancaster, PA, that runs guided house tours and bus tours of the Amish countryside.
Lancaster, PA · 48 minutes from Reading · Over $50 a person
Dutch Wonderland is a family amusement park in Lancaster, PA, built around rides for young children, with puppet and dive shows and the Duke's Lagoon water play area.
Ronks, PA · 48 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
Old Windmill Farm is a working Amish family farm in Ronks, PA, that opens for hands-on tours where visitors milk a cow, bottle-feed calves, gather eggs and take a hayride.
Malvern, PA · 48 minutes from Reading
People's Light is a theater company in Malvern, PA, staging plays and musicals on two stages, the Leonard C. Haas Stage and the Steinbright Stage, on a seven-acre campus.
Bird-in-Hand, PA · 48 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
The Amish Experience is a visitor center at Plain & Fancy Farm in Bird-in-Hand, PA, with a theater show, a replica Amish house and one-room school, and guided minibus tours through Amish farmland.
Allentown, PA · 49 minutes from Reading · Over $50 a person
Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom is an amusement park and waterpark in Allentown, PA, part of Six Flags, with 60-plus rides, the Wildwater Kingdom waterpark and the Planet Snoopy kids area.
Phoenixville, PA · 49 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
The Colonial Theatre is a 1902 movie and performing arts house on Bridge Street in Phoenixville, PA. Three auditoriums run first-run, classic and cult films alongside concerts, comedy and live theatre, Wednesday through Sunday.
West Chester, PA · 49 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
Treehouse World Adventure Park is an outdoor treehouse, zipline and climbing park on Phoenixville Pike in West Chester, PA, open weekends in spring and fall and daily in summer.
Manheim, PA · 50 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
The Kreider Farms Farm Tour is a 90-minute guided bus tour of a working dairy farm on Route 72 in Manheim, PA, offered Monday through Saturday from May through October.
Manheim, PA · 50 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
Laserdome is an indoor entertainment center in Manheim, PA, with a two-level 9,000-square-foot laser tag arena, the Verse Immersive holographic AR theater, an arcade, a laser maze and a free disc golf course.
Ronks, PA · 50 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
The Amish Village is a 12-acre educational property in Ronks, PA, built around an Amish farmhouse from 1840, with guided house tours and a 90-minute bus tour of the Lancaster County countryside.
Lancaster, PA · 51 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
Barnyard Kingdom is the fall play area at Country Barn, a farm and farm market on South Donerville Road in Lancaster, PA, near Mountville, open weekends in September and October.
Mountville, PA · 51 minutes from Reading · Under $20 a person
Corn Cob Acres is a fall farm play park in Mountville, PA, on the Field of Screams farm, with over 50 outdoor activities and games by the site's count, open weekends from September into early November.
Mountville, PA · 51 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
Field of Screams is a Halloween haunted attraction on a farm in Mountville, PA, with a haunted hayride, two haunted houses (Den of Darkness and Frightmare Asylum) and the Nocturnal Wasteland haunted woods, in its 34th season in 2026.
Malvern, PA · 51 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person
The Wharton Esherick Museum is the preserved hilltop studio and home of the American artist Wharton Esherick in Malvern, PA, a National Historic Landmark seen by reserved guided tour only.
Every entry comes from the place's own website, with the day we checked it on its page. Driving times are routed from downtown Reading without traffic; add or take away twenty minutes from the north or east of the county. For things to do without leaving the county, see things to do in Berks County.