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Franklin is a city in Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was estimated 6,545 in the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Venango County. Franklin is part of the Oil City, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area.
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1. Allegheny River Trail
Overall Ratings
5 based on 40 reviews
Reviewed By w m - Wexford, Pennsylvania
The weather was fantastic and the trail was almost completely smoothly paved the entire route from Franklin to Oil City! We are arrived surprised to find Festival taking place in Oil City. What a nice thing to trip up on! It was our turn around spot and it was thoroughly enjoyable. We were surprised to find such nice spots for picnicking and sightseeing along the way as well.
2. DeBence Antique Music World
Overall Ratings
5 based on 31 reviews
Reviewed By Linda44149 - Strongsville, Ohio
Located in downtown Franklin, this one time 5 and dime store now houses 3-levels of numerous and assorted musical instruments, primarily antique mechanical music devices such as calliopes, player pianos, phonographs, music boxes, and other music memorabilia. Some pieces are priceless originals. A small entry fee is charged that includes a first-floor narrative tour, demonstrating several instruments by the staff, and a self-guided tour of the second floor and basement level. The mechanical ingenuity and complexity of the times demonstrated by these instruments is amazing as well as entertaining. All combined there are thousands of pieces in this collection. The staff is friendly, knowledgeable, and accommodating. An elevator is available for access to all floors. The second floor is primarily pianos and organs, and the workshop. The basement level contains radios, phonographs, juke boxes, player pianos, and other assorted memorabilia. Some of the devices in the basement can be played for a quarter. Restrooms are available on the first floor. Most of the pieces in this collection are truly works of arts as well as functional state-of-the-art entertainment devices of their day. Highly recommend a visit where you could easily spend 2-3 hours. A small gift shop is located at the front of the store.
3. Oil City Library
Overall Ratings
5 based on 14 reviews
Reviewed By bagnato1 - Olney, Maryland
I'm prejudiced because I spent so much time here when I was growing up and in school many years ago. I guess I realized even then how lucky Oil City was to have a quality library in a beautiful building. Now, during a brief visit, I discovered it has been wonderfully maintained, with a bank of computers for internet access.
4. Two Mile Run County Park
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 11 reviews
Reviewed By cherimatanimalhouse - Titusville, Pennsylvania
We live close to this park. It is very well maintained. Miles and miles of hiking, biking, cross country skiing, and horseback riding trails. Great canoeing, fishing on the lake. They have a variety of picnic areas some covered, a maintained life guard beach area, snack bar, camping, some sites secluded. Playgrounds for children, They used to rent out some cabins but I don't know if they still do. One year we rented a campsite just to use during the day for our annual family get together. I take my dogs there often for walks. We are very much an outdoors family and use this park often.
It is fantastic for any type of get together large groups or small.
5. Alleghany River Trail
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 5 reviews
Reviewed By nurse15601 - Greensburg pa
We spent a day riding this trail from Franklin to Emlenton Pa, about 58 miles round trip. It is all paved, very smooth with very little noticable grade. The scenery is beautiful, There is a short, gravel road detour around an unfinished section of the trail, I am guessing it to be between 1/4 to 1/2 mile of pushing our bikes. It was worth going through the detour as there are are 2 separate, long, dark tunnels between the detour and Emlenton. YOU WILL NEED A GOOD LIGHT! The paved portion of the trail has reflectors mounted to the surface, but off of the paved portion is rough and very difficult to navigate in the pitch black!. A brief stop in Emlenton for some refreshments and it's still a pleasant ride back to Franklin. Take plenty of water and your favorite snacks. There are no stores or vendors within eyeshot of the trail. Bathrooms are non existant except for a couple sets of port of potties at FRANKLIN and a couple miles south of the trailhead.
6. Sandy Creek Trail
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 4 reviews
Reviewed By tedmc_12 - Richmond, Virginia
I chose to park at the Belmar Trailhead off Route 8 because it has immediate access to the Sandy Creek Trail (Sandy) at the Belmar Bridge and the Bridge when crossed, intersects with the north-south Allegheny River Trail (Allegheny). This way I could ride in four directions from a single trailhead. Further, the trailhead has houses nearby and appears safe.There is a porta potty here. On the other side of the River, the Sandy and the Allegheny cross at different levels and are connected by some stairs.
The Sandy going west to Fisherman's Cove runs higher up the mountain and parallels the Allegheny River but is in the trees. It eventually pulls away from the River. The best section of the Sandy is to the east from the Bridge to Rockland Rd. Cross the Bridge and the trail follows Sandy Creek which contains five high trestles and one straight tunnel. This section is isolated in the beautiful mountains and quiet without houses or roads.
Darkness caught us before we could bike the Allegheny River Trail. That trail is at river level and the Valley view more open which will be our next trip.
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