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Penn's Cave & Wildlife Park

Centre Hall, PA · 2 hours 58 minutes from Reading · $20 to $50 a person

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Penn's Cave & Wildlife Park

Plan the day

Drive2 hours 58 minutes from Reading, 136 miles3 hours 23 minutes from Boyertown · 2 hours 41 minutes from Hamburg · 2 hours 51 minutes from Morgantown
Where222 Penn's Cave Road, Centre Hall, PA 16828, Centre Hall, PAOpen in maps →
OpenDaily March through November; weekends only in December; closed January and February.Cave boat tours hourly 11 am to 4 pm; visitors center 10 am to 5 pm in October and 11 am to 5 pm in November; wildlife tours 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm on weekdays and hourly on weekends (weekends only in November).
AdmissionCavern boat tour adults $26.50, seniors 65+ $25.50, ages 2 to 12 $16.50; wildlife bus tour $29.50, $28.50, $19.50; combo $43.50, $42.50, $28.50; super combo with the maze $45.50, $44.50, $29.50 (2026).
Plan onAbout 3 hours for both tours.
Good forlittle kids, big kids, teens, adults, couples, a group of friends

Penn's Cave & Wildlife Park is an all-water limestone cavern and a farm-nature-wildlife park in Centre Hall, PA, 18 miles east of State College, where the cave tour is given entirely by boat.

The site calls it America's only all-water cavern, so you see the cave from a boat instead of on foot, in a constant 52 degrees. A bus tour of the farm-nature-wildlife park pairs with the boat tour, and the two together take about three hours. Kids get Prospector Pete's Miners Maze and gemstone panning, and off-road mountain jeep tours run June through November by reservation.

Before you go

Advance tickets are sold online but not required; on weekends, arrive by noon for walk-in tickets, since tours can sell out. Bring a jacket for the 52-degree cave and comfortable shoes for the 48 steps to the dock and the 350-foot incline. Strollers are not allowed on the tours. Parking is free.

Coming up

The farm-nature-wildlife bus tour runs daily through October 31, 2026 and weekends only in November, then closes for the winter; the cave boat tour continues daily through November and on weekends in December.

Official site →Tickets →

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

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