No. 9 Coal Mine and Museum

Address: 9 Dock St., Lansford, Pa.

Phone: 570-645-7074

Open: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday

Of Note: Visitors to the mine ride by rail 1,600 feet into the mountain before embarking on a 600 foot guided walking tour. Tourists can examine the original 700 foot deep mine shaft, walk the “mule-way” (where young men guided the mules between the different levels of the mine), and see a miner’s hospital cut into solid rock. Outside on the grounds is the museum, housed in the No.9 Mine’s original “Wash Shanty” constructed before the First World War.

Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour

Address: Bald Mountain Road, McDade Park, Scranton, Pa.

Phone: 570-963-6463

Open: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday through Monday

Of Note: Explore 300 feet beneath the earth's surface through an anthracite coal mine in Scranton, Pa., that originally opened in 1860. Follow your guide through the winding underground gangways and tunnels past three different veins of coal. Listen as they take you back in time and show you the day in the life of the area's workers that powered the Industrial Revolution.

Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum

Address: 22 Bald Mountain Road, McDade Park, Scranton, Pa.

Phone: 570-963-4804

Open: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday

Of Note: On a tour of the facility visitors will experience the lives of proud people who endured harsh working conditions yet carved out communities filled with tradition. The diverse collection highlights life in the mines, mills and factories. Visitors are welcomed into the family’s homes and neighborhoods with a moment of reflection in the kitchen, a visit to the pub, or a seat in a local Church.

Tour-Ed Mine and Museum

Address: Route 28, Exit 14 Tarentum, Pa.

Phone: 724-224-4720

Open: Tour times: 10 a.m., 12 p.m., 2 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday

Of Note: The Shift Whistle is Blowing! Time to go to work. Put on your authentic Tour-Ed Mine hard-hat and climb into a real coal mine car for a ½ mile journey into a mining experience you'll never forget. It's one of the really “Coal” things to do with the family in Pittsburgh!

Coalport Area Coal Museum

Address: 961 Forrest St., Coalport, Pa.

Phone: 814-790-0984

Open: 1 to 5 p.m. Thursday and Sunday

Of Note: ​Most all of the artifacts in the Coal Museum were donated by families of former coal miners who wished to have their memories preserved following our motto: To Enrich our Future by Preserving the Past. Most of the items on display are from the early hand-loading days of mining bituminous coal---an industry for which our region was primarily known.

Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine and Steam Train

Address: 20th & Oak St, Ashland, Pa.

Phone: 570-875-3850

Open: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday

Of Note: Pioneer Tunnel is a horizontal drift mine. You'll ride 1,800 feet into the side of Mahanoy Mountain in an open-air mine car pulled by a battery-operated mine motor. Deep inside the mine, when you're 400 feet below the earth, you will exit your car and follow your tour guide as you learn how coal was mined from the late 1800s to the early 1900s.

Eckley Miners’ Village

Address: 2 Eckley Main St., Weatherly, Pa.

Phone: 570-636-2070

Open: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday

Of Note: Perched atop a mountain ridge at the center of the planet’s largest concentration of anthracite coal, Eckley Miners’ Village is a world within a world. Visit our authentic 19th-century company mining town to experience the lives of the working-class families who fueled America.

American Industrial Mining Co. Museum

Address: 222 Spring Road, Brownsville, Pa.

Phone: 614-571-7245

Open: 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8 through Sunday, Aug. 10, 2025

Of Note: Our coal mining educational adventure begins with the only place in the world where you can see two Continuous Miners operating above ground cutting coal !!

Quecreek Mine Rescue Foundation

Address: 140 Haupt Road, Somerset, Pa.

Phone: 814-445-5090

Open: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday

Of Note: We invite you to come visit the rescue site where you can walk right up to the rescue shaft where the miners emerged from the dark, cold mine 240 feet below after 77 hours of frigid darkness. You will be greeted by the 7 foot tall bronze statue of a coal miner at the top of the walkway into the rescue site. Hear the story of the miracle from people personally involved in the rescue. Touch the rescue capsule and try to imagine how it would feel to squeeze into it with your strength nearly gone.

The Brooks Mine

Address: 500 Arthur Ave., Nay Aug Park, Scranton, Pa.

Open: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday

Of Note: As part of our educational public events, we give private hand-on excursions at local coal mine tours and our restoration shop for enthusiasts looking for an in-depth experience. As part of these trips, we draw on our significant historical knowledge as well as innumerable experiences working underground in active mines.