Allentown
Allentown is a city in eastern Pennsylvania, United States.
Allentown is a city in eastern Pennsylvania, United States. The county seat of Lehigh County, it is the third-most populous city in Pennsylvania, with a population of 125,845 as of the 2020 census. It is also the most populous city in the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the nation as of 2020.
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Worth seeing in and around Allentown
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Lehigh University
Lehigh University is a private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. The university was established in 1865 by businessman Asa Packer.
8.3 km · private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 02Diocese of Allentown
The Diocese of Allentown is a diocese of the Catholic Church in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
0 m · diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia - 03Moravian University
Moravian University is a private university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution traces its history to girls' and boys' schools opened in 1742 by Moravians, descendants of followers of the Bohemian Reformation under John Amos Comenius.
8.7 km · private liberal-arts college in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 04Muhlenberg College
Muhlenberg College is a private liberal arts college in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1848, Muhlenberg College is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and is named for Henry Muhlenberg, the German patriarch of Lutheranism in the United States.
2.8 km · private liberal arts college in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA · Wikipedia - 05Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom
Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom is an amusement and water park located in Dorneyville, Pennsylvania, outside Allentown, in the United States. Owned and operated by Six Flags, the park features 64 rides, including eight roller coasters, several thrill rides and children's rides, and a water park, Wildwater Kingdom, with 26 water slides.
5.4 km · amusement park in Pennsylvania · Wikipedia - 06Cathedral of Saint Catharine of Siena
The Cathedral Church of St. Catharine of Siena is the seat of the Diocese of Allentown.
1.6 km · Roman Catholic cathedral in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 07Cedar Crest College
Cedar Crest College is a private liberal arts women's college in Allentown, Pennsylvania. In the fall of 2024, the college enrolled 886 undergraduate and 362 graduate students.
3.9 km · women's college in Pennsylvania · Wikipedia - 08PPL Center
The PPL Center is an 8,500-seat capacity indoor sports arena in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It opened on September 10, 2014.
400 m · indoor sports arena in Allentown, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia - 09Steel Force
Steel Force is a steel roller coaster located at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pennsylvania. At 5,600 feet in length, Steel Force is tied with Mamba at Worlds of Fun as the ninth-longest steel coaster in the world as of 2026.
5.7 km · steel roller coaster at Dorney Park · Wikipedia - 10Coca-Cola Park
Coca-Cola Park is a baseball park in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It is the home field for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the Triple-A level Minor League Baseball affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies.
3.4 km · baseball stadium in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA · Wikipedia
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Getting to Allentown
- Airports
- Philadelphia (PHL), 84 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 111 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 137 km
- Stations
- Lehigh Valley International Airport, 6.7 km · Allentown Queen City Municipal Airport, 3.6 km
- Philadelphia → Allentown78 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · $8–11
- New York → Allentown126 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · $12–16
- Newark → Allentown112 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · $10–14
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Allentown
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Allentown. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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