. Rural resorts and summer retreats along the line of the Cumberland valley railroad, including picnic parks and pleasure places . ain Railroad,six miles from Carlisle, connections being made at SouthMountain Junction with all through trains on the Cumber-land Valley Railroad. Any one wishing a quiet and restfulretreat during the summer will find this place very desirablefor its beautiful scenery, cool, invigorating air, and purespring water. Excursion tickets are sold from stations onthe Pennsylvania Railroad, Northern Central Railw^ay, andBaltimore and Potomac Railroad, as well as all along
. Rural resorts and summer retreats along the line of the Cumberland valley railroad, including picnic parks and pleasure places . ain Railroad,six miles from Carlisle, connections being made at SouthMountain Junction with all through trains on the Cumber-land Valley Railroad. Any one wishing a quiet and restfulretreat during the summer will find this place very desirablefor its beautiful scenery, cool, invigorating air, and purespring water. Excursion tickets are sold from stations onthe Pennsylvania Railroad, Northern Central Railw^ay, andBaltimore and Potomac Railroad, as well as all along theline of the Cumberland Valley Railroad. Pine Grove Park. 34 miles from Harrisburg; 138 from Philadelphia. This popular picnic place has been for the past few yearsthe favorite resort for excursionists from Harrisburg,Carlisle, and adjacent towns. It is delightfully situated in 26 a romantic valley of the 8outh mountains, the mountainsrising directly in front of the Park, along the edge of whichruns Mountain creek, adding very greatly to its Park was visited, during 1879, bv visitorsand in 1880 by 21, ^lifj^n FAMILY PICNIC. Irams for the Park connect at South Mountain Junctionwith all the through trains on the Cumberland Valley Rail-road. Leaving Harrisburg one rides through the Cumber-land Valley eighteen miles to near Carlisle, and then 27 directly across the valley, entering the mountain at springs; thence up Mountain creek to the are landed at their destination at once, not hav-ing to walk any distance. The Park is a pine and oak grove, making a dense shade,and contains al)out thirty acres of ground. The moun-tains are well wooded and filled with numerous paths forthose who desire to ramble, and enable them to be the dis-coverers of many pretty nooks and surprising views. Thecleared ground or park proper is for the greater part level,with hills rising in the back ground. Here there is erecteda pavilion sixty feet long and th
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