Pennsylvania Mining Museum

Pennsylvania Mining Museum is a museum in Ralpho Township, Northumberland, Pennsylvania which is located on Knoebels Boulevard. Pennsylvania Mining Museum is situated nearby to Knoebels History Museum, as well as near the dark ride Black Diamond.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Black Diamond and Phoenix.

Black Diamond

Dark ride

Black Diamond is a roller coaster at Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg, Pennsylvania. The ride has a steel track on a wooden frame. The roller coaster originally opened in 1960 as Golden Nugget at Hunt's Pier, and it eventually became part of Morey's Piers in Wildwood, New Jersey, where it operated until 1999 and stood unused until early 2009.

Phoenix

Roller coaster

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Phoenix is a wooden roller coaster located at Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg, Pennsylvania. It was moved to its current location in central Pennsylvania in 1985. Phoenix is situated 370 feet south of Pennsylvania Mining Museum.

Flying Turns

Roller coaster

Photo: Rich Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Flying Turns is a wooden bobsled roller coaster at Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg, Pennsylvania. It is modeled after a similar ride designed by John Norman Bartlett and John Miller in the 1920s. Flying Turns is situated 540 feet southeast of Pennsylvania Mining Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Elysburg and Paxinos.

Elysburg

Village

Elysburg is a census-designated place in Ralpho Township, Pennsylvania, United States. It is forty-two miles north-northeast of Harrisburg. The population was 2,194 at the 2010 census. Elysburg is situated 2½ miles southwest of Pennsylvania Mining Museum.

Paxinos

Hamlet

Paxinos is a census-designated place in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a post office with the zip code 17860. In 2010, the population was 2,467 residents. Paxinos is situated 4½ miles southwest of Pennsylvania Mining Museum.

Natalie

Hamlet

Natalie is a town in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is classified as a "community designated place" meaning it is neither a census-designated place nor a place having a federally recognized name. Natalie is situated 5 miles southeast of Pennsylvania Mining Museum.

Pennsylvania Mining Museum

Type: Museum
Address: 391 Knoebels Boulevard, Elysburg, PA 17824
Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
Location: Ralpho Township, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.87938° or 40° 52′ 46″ north

Longitude

-76.50662° or 76° 30′ 24″ west

Open location code

87G5VFHV+Q9

OpenStreetMap ID

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OpenStreetMap feature

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