Looking for ideas to update your kitchen or bath space? Here’s a sneak preview of the modern looks and new innovations you’ll be seeing in the coming year.
Three major highways — the Pennsylvania Turnpike, William Penn Highway (aka Route 22), and the Parkway East — converge here. Roadways always have played a key role in this region’s growth; so has shopping. Developers built the Miracle Mile Shopping Center in 1954 to take advantage of the traffic, then other developers one-upped them with a 1 million-square-foot mall in the next decade. Research labs for U.S. Steel, Westinghouse and others attracted engineers from around the world, particularly India, and the new immigrants often built temples — one of which is a familiar sight perched on a hillside overlooking I-376
There's much more to winter travel than jetting off to a warmer climate. Here are eight destinations within a three-hour drive of Pittsburgh that will entice you to leave the nest this winter.