Lake Towhee Park
A 549-acre Bucks County park around a lake in Applebachsville, about ten minutes northeast of the borough. Fishing, boating, hiking, camping, and a playground, open dawn to dusk.
Theaters, landmarks, and the places that fill a Saturday.
15 things to do in Quakertown, PA, on one page: 6 kids, 5 outdoors, 4 historic site. 26 events are coming up at these venues; the Quakertown calendar has the dates.
A 549-acre Bucks County park around a lake in Applebachsville, about ten minutes northeast of the borough. Fishing, boating, hiking, camping, and a playground, open dawn to dusk.
The stone house on West Broad where the Liberty Bell reportedly spent a night in September 1777, hidden from the British on its wagon haul from Philadelphia up to Allentown. A quiet local landmark most people drive past without knowing what happened here.
The gallery on West Broad hangs paintings by Jim Lukens alongside select area artists and students from his oil-painting classes. Student work next to the teacher's — that tells you what kind of room it is.
The events half of McCoole's, a Main Street room booked with live music, comedy nights, and community theater. A few doors from the Red Lion Inn, so dinner and a show can be one walk.
Milford Township's park off Krammes Road, with soccer fields, a climbing wall, beach volleyball, horseshoe pits (bring your own shoes), and a splash pad added in 2025. The butterfly garden holds down a quieter corner.

An indoor pretend-play city for the single-digit set — seven kid-scale playhouses, including a fire station, grocery store, animal hospital, and a Rita's Frozen Custard stand. Weekday open play runs as one long 10-to-3 session; three private party rooms handle the birthday circuit.
The event room upstairs at The Proper Brewing Co on West Broad, wired for private parties and live music nights. Book it out for a party, or catch a band when the calendar fills up.
The Quakertown branch of the Bucks County Free Library, over on West Mill Street. Come for the books, stay for the story hours, the public computers, and meeting rooms most folks in town forget they can use for free.
The indoor market locals call Q-Mart, with more than 100 farmers market departments selling produce, meats, baked goods, and just about anything else with a price tag. Open year-round, Friday and Saturday 9 to 9 and Sunday 10 to 5.
The keepers of Quakertown's back catalog, from the borough's Quaker roots to whatever the town looked like a century ago. Their North Main address is where you go when you want the real story behind an old building.
Home of QuiNBy's Playground, an all-inclusive setup built around a castle tower up to 29 feet tall with a 155-foot net obstacle course alongside. Come winter the parking lot is flooded into the borough skating pond; a green flag on the pole means the ice is good.
The restored train station on Front Street, kept up by volunteers who care about how Quakertown moved by rail. A small stop for anyone who likes old depots and the era they belong to.
Founded in 1788, which makes it one of the oldest subscription libraries in Pennsylvania. It sits on South Main and has outlasted nearly everything around it.
An outdoor amphitheater in the Park at 4th, run by the borough's parks department, where the Sounds of Summer series has drawn over 12,000 attendees a summer since 2017. The 2026 lineup runs July through September, the Beach Boys and Air Supply included.
The Richland Township park where the communal stuff lands: free Movies in the Park on summer Friday nights at 7, plus the township's Community Day every August. The 2026 movie run leans hard elementary-school — Spongebob takes the screen August 14.
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