5 National Parks To Visit In PA's Laurel Highlands

Pennsylvania's Laurel Highlands region contains five historically significant national parks: Fort Necessity National Battlefield (where George Washington's 1754 surrender sparked the American Revolution), Friendship Hill National Historic Site (home of Swiss immigrant Albert Gallatin, longest-serving Secretary of Treasury), Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site (an 1830s engineering marvel that helped Pennsylvania compete with New York's canal systems), Johnstown Flood National Memorial (commemorating the 1889 disaster that killed over 2,000 people), and Flight 93 National Memorial (honoring the passengers who crashed the only hijacked plane that day in Somerset County).