Amphitheater at Lenape Park
Free live music runs here on Wednesday nights all summer, 7 to 9 in Lenape Park, with food trucks parked alongside and a lawn to spread out on. It opened in 2022 and is where Perkasie heads once the weather turns warm.
Things to do in Perkasie
Theaters, landmarks, and the places that fill a Saturday.
20 things to do in Perkasie, PA, on one page: 10 landmark, 9 history, 8 kids. 14 events are coming up at these venues; the Perkasie calendar has the dates.
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- Amphitheater at Lenape Park
- Kulp Park
- Lenape Park
- Menlo Aquatics Center
- Menlo Park
- Mood's Covered Bridge
- Nockamixon State Park
- Pearl S. Buck House
- Perkasie Branch, Bucks County Free Library
- Perkasie Carousel
- Perkasie Dog Park
- Perkasie Historical Society
- Perkasie Park
- Perkasie Patchwork Coffeehouse
- Perkasie Train Car Mural
- Perkasie Trolley Tunnel
- Skydive Philadelphia
- South Perkasie Covered Bridge
- Tabora Farm & Orchard
- WPA Twin Bridges
Kulp Park
Six new pickleball courts, a kiddie wading pool, and a playground, all strung along the East Branch Perkiomen creek where the greenway trail runs. Bring the kids for the pool in July, or come for a paddle game and stay for the walk by the water.
Lenape Park
Perkasie's do-everything park along the East Branch Perkiomen Creek, with the Spine skate park, a dog park, sand volleyball, and a paved trail down both banks. A borough-owned wind turbine spins over the whole lot, and the ice rink opens once winter sets in.
Menlo Aquatics Center
Perkasie's borough pool has anchored Menlo Park since 1939, rebuilt in 2007 with a lazy river and a drop slide off the 13-foot deep end. Day passes run $11 to $32, it's open noon to eight all summer, and members get the lanes to themselves for 7am laps before the gates open.
Menlo Park
The carousel here has been spinning since Perkasie families first pooled their money for one in 1891, and the current Allan Herschell model has run since 1951. Come summer there's a public pool and a playground with a zip line, but the merry-go-round is the reason you drive over.
Mood's Covered Bridge
An 1874 covered bridge over the Perkiomen's northeast branch, burned by arson in 2004 and rebuilt in period lattice-truss style, reopening in February 2008. One salvaged piece of the original truss is built into the new frame, and it still carries about 2,000 cars a day just outside town.
Nockamixon State Park
5,286 acres wrapped around the 1,450-acre Lake Nockamixon, a short drive up Route 313 from Perkasie, with boating, a swimming pool, and disc golf. Open sunrise to sunset every day of the year; the lake is a rest stop for migrating waterfowl if you'd rather bring binoculars than a boat.
Pearl S. Buck House
The stone farmhouse where Nobel and Pulitzer winner Pearl S. Buck lived, now a National Historic Landmark museum on a 67-acre estate with prize-winning gardens and the newly opened Green Hills Farm Arboretum. House tours run $15 for adults, and the grounds host Perkasie's own Little Theater Workshop for outdoor summer Shakespeare.
Perkasie Branch, Bucks County Free Library
The town's branch of the Bucks County Free Library, still carrying the Samuel Pierce name, keeps the lights on until 8 on Monday through Wednesday nights. Your card works at every branch in the county, and this one runs kids' storytime through the week.
Perkasie Carousel
A carousel that's been part of Menlo Park since 1892, now run by the Perkasie Historical Society for about a dozen days a year. Check the schedule before you load the kids in the car — it's dark most of the summer, and catching a day it actually turns is half the point.
Perkasie Dog Park
An acre of fenced off-leash ground across from Perkasie Square, split into two runs so the under-35-pounders aren't dodging the big dogs. Free to use, with an agility A-frame and tunnels for the show-offs and shaded benches for you.
Perkasie Historical Society
Volunteers have kept Perkasie's history since 1954, with a museum wedged into a former Lehigh Valley Transit trolley station on Walnut Street that opens weekend afternoons, May through December. They also look after the 1832 South Perkasie covered bridge and the Menlo Park carousel, where a ride still runs fifty cents.
Perkasie Park
Sixty-odd Carpenter Gothic cottages, gingerbread trim and all, ringed around an open-air auditorium: a Methodist camp-meeting community that opened in 1882 and never really shut down. Founders' Day in early August is when the private grounds open up for cottage tours.
Perkasie Patchwork Coffeehouse
A folk and acoustic concert series that Perkasie Mennonite Church has run out of its fellowship hall since 1996, with dessert and coffee in place of a bar. The room stays small and the shows are kid-friendly, so it plays more like a living-room set than a night out.
Perkasie Train Car Mural
A long-abandoned SEPTA freight car at N. 8th and W. Market, painted by Promiseland Murals in fall 2025. Free and open-air — walk up and snap photos anytime, with municipal parking nearby.
Perkasie Trolley Tunnel
Built in 1912 so the Lehigh Valley Transit trolley could duck under the Reading Railroad, this stone tunnel carried the interurban line that ran hourly from Allentown down to Philadelphia until the cars stopped in 1951. The trolleys are long gone, but the tunnel still stands on the old right-of-way, one of the last things you can walk up and touch from that line.
Skydive Philadelphia
Tandem jumps out of Pennridge Airport, where they've spent more than 20 years strapping first-timers to USPA-certified instructors. If the first jump takes, the AFF course is the path to jumping solo.
South Perkasie Covered Bridge
Bucks County's oldest covered bridge, built in 1832 and hauled a mile to Lenape Park over eight days in 1958 to save it from demolition. Hurricane Ida shifted it about 15 feet off its abutments in 2021, so for now it's a look-from-the-outside landmark while a FEMA-funded restoration works through the pipeline.
Tabora Farm & Orchard
Farm bakery, deli, and country store at an orchard a few minutes south of Perkasie, open 7 am to 7 pm every day. Daily-baked pies, wholesale-grade soft pretzels, grind-your-own peanut butter, and seasonal u-pick that runs from blueberries into apples and pumpkins.
WPA Twin Bridges
Two white suspension footbridges the WPA strung across Lake Lenape in 1938, modeled on the same Roebling design behind the Brooklyn Bridge. Roughly 500 feet of towers and cable over the creek, and still the only suspension bridges anywhere in Pennridge.
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