Theaters, landmarks, and the places that fill a Saturday.
28 things to do in New Hope, PA, on one page: 11 history, 9 landmark, 7 arts. 123 events are coming up at these venues; the New Hope calendar has the dates.
Spring water cascades over a waterfall and meanders downstream through 48 township acres off Route 202 at Lower Mountain Road, acquired by Solebury Township in 2009. The build-out stays light: trails, benches, overlooks, and directional signs.
A 125-foot fieldstone tower raised between 1929 and 1931 atop Bowman's Hill, a few miles south of New Hope in Washington Crossing Historic Park. On a clear day the top gives you a 14-mile sweep of the Delaware and the farmland around it.
More than 700 native plant species grow along the trails of the Pidcock Creek valley, a few minutes south of town on River Road. The on-site nursery sells over 200 native species, many grown from locally sourced seed, so the garden can follow you home.
Nine thousand square feet of hands-on exhibits built around Bucks County itself, including a Delaware Canal you run by cranking miniature locks to raise and lower the water. Aimed at the 12-months-to-7 crowd, so it's the rainy-Saturday move for a few short years before your kid ages out.
A converted 1790 grist mill on the Delaware that's been staging shows since 1939, where Grace Kelly made her professional debut and Robert Redford premiered "Barefoot in the Park." Summers still mean full-scale musicals like this season's South Pacific and Rent, with dinner on the Playhouse Deck over the river before curtain.
Donna Marian has run this gothic gallery out of a Main Street storefront since 2013, selling macabre fine art, Victorian mourning antiques, and the hand-built Gothic Dead Dolls she's known for. Ask about the Red Room, where haunted objects get vetted by paranormal teams before they go up for sale.
The towpath runs 58.9 miles from Easton to Bristol, the last fully intact canal left from America's towpath era, and the flat, shaded New Hope stretch is the walk or bike ride you point visitors toward. Mules hauled coal barges down this water into the 1930s, and the Locktender's House by the lock still lays out how the whole thing worked.
The flat crushed-stone towpath that runs 60 miles from Easton to Bristol, and the New Hope stretch is the gentle one: pick it up by the restored Lock 11 and walk the canal one block off Main Street, past the backs of the shops. Mule teams towed barges along here into 2006, which is why it's dead level the whole way, good for a two-mile out-and-back before dinner.
An all-vegetarian kitchen with Far East spice in the New Hope building where Abbie Hoffman held his Dump the Pump meetings. The live-music calendar runs to serious bluegrass — IBMA Hall of Famer David Parmley has played the stage.
A pocket of riverbank at the foot of Ferry Street where the Delaware slides past and Lambertville sits across the water. Washington's army crossed here at Coryell's Ferry in June 1778 on the way to Monmouth; now it's a few sculptures, some benches, and the ducks.
Painter Gary Giordano shows his own contemporary work, abstracts and figures, in a one-artist gallery at 20 W Bridge Street. You see the canvases where they're painted, straight from him.
Two storefronts at 35 and 39 N Main hung with work from more than 80 artists — landscapes, portraiture, sculpture, and a run of pop realism. Open since 2007, and when the posted hours say closed they'll still open by appointment for anyone who asks.
A lantern-led walk that leaves the corner of Main and Ferry at 8pm, covering a mile of New Hope's ghost stories: the Lady in White down by the Delaware, the restless guests at the 1727 Logan Inn. Adele Gamble has been guiding these tours since the mid-'80s, working from the research of the paranormal author who started them in 1981.
Live bands seven nights a week at the bottom of Main Street, running since 1978. Grab dinner on the patio, then stay for whoever's on the stage — often blues singer Christine Martucci — and dance once the tables clear.
Four miles of trails cross the Honey Hollow watershed, a National Historic Landmark since 1969 for proving neighboring farms could manage soil and water together. The Audubon chapter behind it shortened its name from Bucks County Audubon Society in 2026; the trails stay open dawn to dusk.
Ween got their start on this stage, and the room has run live music seven nights a week since 1972. Grab one of 150 seats, order the 8oz burger, and you might catch a name between arena tours playing to a barful of neighbors.
A skinny linear park that threads between Ferry and Bridge streets along an old quarry cut, with a gazebo, a small water feature, and enough shade to eat lunch out of the sun. Locals call it the Quarry; it's easy to walk right past by the railroad tracks, and it's stood in for more than a few tiny weddings since the borough built it in 2008.
The restored locktender's house at Lock 11, run by the Friends of the Delaware Canal as a small museum of how mule-drawn boats moved cargo through here for a hundred years starting in 1832. The lock out front was rebuilt to working order, the first one running on the Delaware Canal in more than 50 years.
An arts center in the old Worthington's Garage, which sold and fixed cars for five decades before the sculptors moved in. Time your visit for the annual juried sculpture show — the 21st edition hung more than 90 works from 58 artists in metal, stone, wood, and clay.
Every September, 160-some juried artists take over the New Hope-Solebury High School lot with oils, blown glass, and wearable art. Five dollars gets you in, and a free shuttle runs you back to Main Street when your arms are full.
The 1784 fieldstone house of Benjamin Parry, whose New Hope Mills eventually handed the town its name. Its eleven rooms are furnished a generation apart, walking you from 1775 to 1900 without leaving Main Street.
Heritage trains have departed the 1891 Witch's Hat station on West Bridge Street since 1966, rolling south through the Buckingham Valley on tracks first laid by the North-East Pennsylvania Railroad. The lineup now includes four-person pedal-assist rail bikes if you would rather ride the rails at 5 mph yourself.
A winery on Lower York Road with a tavern set in a mid-18th-century barn. The Note, its 250-seat music room, keeps a steady calendar of live acts and tribute bands.
Benjamin Parry built this stone house in 1784, and it's now home to the New Hope Historical Society. The guided tour runs through 11 rooms, each furnished to a different era across the five Parry generations who lived here, so the place shifts from candlelight to electric bulbs as you walk it.
Sixty-plus locally owned shops, plus restaurants, gardens, and the Giggleberry Fair family playscape, just west of New Hope in Lahaska. It has pulled in day-trippers for more than 60 years, and USA Today's 10Best readers named it the country's number-one shopping center in 2026.
Pick-your-own apples, peaches, and blueberries on Creamery Road, plus cider and applesauce pressed from the same trees. Picking season runs Thursday through Sunday from late June into October.
Pick a glass jar or a mold, pick a wax color, and make your own candle on Main Street; the reservation-only Melt N Pour sessions handle the hot wax, ages 13 and up. Jr Wax — granulated bead wax, no melting required — keeps little kids in the game.
Part fairy shop, part ceremony room, steps from the river bridge: fairy-hair sparkle appointments share the calendar with wish workshops sealed in melted wax and a no-choreography, no-audience Dance Church. You can book the whole room for a micro-wedding or handfasting.
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