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Asa Packer Mansion

Jim Thorpe, PA · 1 hour 20 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person

asapackermansion.com|Day trips from Berks County

Open April through the first two weekends of December on a schedule that changes by month.

Asa Packer Mansion

Plan the day

Drive1 hour 20 minutes from Reading, 53 miles1 hour 15 minutes from Boyertown · 1 hour 1 minute from Hamburg · 1 hour 41 minutes from Morgantown
WherePacker Hill Ave, Jim Thorpe, PAOpen in maps →
OpenApril: weekends. May: Fridays to Sundays. Memorial Day to October 31: six days a week, closed Tuesdays. November: weekends. December: first two weekends.Grounds open 11 a.m.; first tour 11:30 a.m., last tour 3:30 p.m.; grounds close 4:15 p.m.
AdmissionAdults 19 to 54 $20, seniors 55 and over $18, students 6 to 18 $15, children 5 and under $10; cash or credit card, no checks (2026).
Plan onTours run about 45 to 60 minutes; 30 minutes on Fall Foliage Festival weekends in October.
Good forbig kids, teens, adults, couples, older adults

The Asa Packer Mansion is an 1861 Victorian mansion museum in Jim Thorpe, PA, the home of philanthropist, railroad magnate and Lehigh University founder Asa Packer.

Docent-led tours take in 18 rooms and about 11,000 square feet of a cast-iron-framed house designed by Samuel Sloan, open to the public since Memorial Day 1956 and a National Historic Landmark since 1985, and 2026 added extended third-floor tours. On Fall Foliage Festival weekends in October the tours shorten to 30 minutes and leave every half hour, and Olde Time Christmas tours fill the first two weekends of December.

Before you go

Walk in for small parties; groups of 15 or more must reserve at (570) 325-3229. Cash and credit cards, no personal checks. No photos, video or audio recording on the tour. On October Fall Foliage weekends tours are 30 minutes and tickets are first come, first served.

Coming up

Fall Foliage Festival weekends in October bring 30-minute tours every half hour from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Olde Time Christmas tours run December 5, 6, 12 and 13, 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., weather permitting.

Official site →

Checked October 8, 2026 on the official site. Hours, prices and seasons change, so confirm there before a long drive.

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