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Bucks County Weekend Guide: Festivals, Sand Sculptures, and a New Way to Ride the Rails
Got plans this weekend? If not, Bucks County has you covered. From street festivals and pet parades to award-winning shopping, sand sculptures, scenic rail rides, and wineries, there is no shortage of ways to spend the next couple of days. Here are eight of the best. Start in Newtown, where Welcome Day takes over Sycamore…
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What Should Replace Oxford Valley Mall? More Than 80 Bucks County Residents Weighed In
If Bucks County residents had their way, Oxford Valley Mall would become part restaurant district, part entertainment hub, part town center, and in at least one memorable case, part brothel. It is a wish list that says something real about where this community is, and where it thinks the mall should go. The backdrop matters.…
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Inside The Pineville Tavern, One of Bucks County’s Most Enduring Gathering Places
On any given weekend, The Pineville Tavern might host a birthday dinner, a bridal shower, a retirement party, a rehearsal dinner, or a family gathering that spans three generations. That has been true for decades. In many ways, it has been true for centuries. For many Bucks County residents, Pineville Tavern is more than a…
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10 Bucks County Garden Centers Where Locals Actually Buy Their Flowers, Plants, Trees and Shrubs
Summer is the season when Bucks County homeowners get serious about their yards. The impulse is the same whether you have a small front porch in Fairless Hills or a sprawling property in Solebury: something needs to be planted, replaced, or brought back to life. Some homeowners are chasing color. Others want a pollinator garden,…
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Bucks County June Events 2026: Fairs, Festivals, Live Music and More
June marks the unofficial start of summer in Bucks County. It’s also the time of year when neighbors reconnect, families gather, and communities come together around traditions that have become part of the region’s identity. This June carries extra meaning. With America marking its 250th birthday, several events this month weave that milestone into the…
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Inside Fritz’s Bakery, the Bensalem Institution Behind 50 Years of Sticky Buns, Wedding Cakes, and Family Traditions
On a recent Saturday morning, the line at Fritz’s Bakery started forming before the doors opened. By the time the first customers walked out carrying pink boxes, word had already spread through the parking lot: the sticky buns were fresh. This is not unusual. It has been happening for more than 50 years. Some customers…
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Father’s Day Gift Ideas: Instead of More Stuff, Give Dad a Bucks County Spa Day
For years, Father’s Day gifts have followed a familiar formula. Golf shirts. Grilling tools. Coffee mugs. Gift cards. The problem is that many dads already have those things. What they often don’t have is time to themselves. As wellness and recovery have gone mainstream, more families are skipping the gift wrap altogether and giving dads…
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The World’s Largest Bounce House Is Coming. Here’s Why People Are Buying Tickets Now
Imagine spending an afternoon racing friends through a 900-foot obstacle course, dancing to a live DJ inside the world’s largest bounce house, and diving into a foam party beneath giant octopus tentacles. That’s exactly what’s coming to the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center Fairgrounds in Oaks from June 27th through July 5th. The Big Bounce America…
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Casino Players Vote Bensalem’s Parx Casino Best Casino in Pennsylvania
Parx Casino in Bensalem has won the Best Casino in Pennsylvania title at the 2026 International Casino Awards, beating out every other gaming destination in the state in a competition decided entirely by the players who visit them. The awards, presented by Casinos.com, span more than 100 categories recognizing excellence in casino entertainment worldwide, from…
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Pennsylvania Turnpike Fights Back Against Sneaky Toll Evasion with Public’s Help
As a growing number of sneaky motorists are finding ways to conceal their license plates from toll cameras, so Pennsylvania Turnpike is turning to other drivers to catch them, writes Scott Calvert for The Wall Street Journal. Cheating the system has become easier thanks to mechanical devices that can hide a car’s tag at the…
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Two Bucks County Towns Among Top 15 Pennsylvania Destinations for Retirees
Pennsylvania offers an ideal retirement setting with its rich history, scenic landscapes, and small-town charm, including two standout destinations in Bucks County, writes Leo Heit for When in Your State. Doylestown and New Hope made the list of 15 charming towns in Pennsylvania you would love to retire to after your first visit. Doylestown is…
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How New Hope Became, and Stayed, One of America’s Greatest Art Towns
Walk through New Hope on any weekend and you feel it before you can explain it. Something about the place hums. Galleries tucked into 18th-century storefronts. Live music spilling out of open doors. Theater companies, sculptors, photographers, and painters all sharing the same few walkable blocks along the Delaware. What most visitors do not know…
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From Small Town Bucks County to the World Stage: How Quakertown Shaped Sabrina Carpenter
Global pop success usually starts in the same places. Los Angeles. New York. Industry pipelines. Sabrina Carpenter started in Quakertown. That matters. Quakertown is not built for shortcuts. It is quiet. Spread out. You do not stumble into opportunity. You plan for it. You drive to it. You work for it. That shows up all…
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From Dead Mall to Town Center: The Plan to Reimagine Neshaminy Mall in Bensalem
For generations of Bucks County residents, Neshaminy Mall was more than a shopping center. It was where people saw movies, wandered the food court, bought back-to-school clothes, and spent Friday nights during the height of the suburban mall era. Now, the future of the Bensalem property appears headed in a much different direction. In July…
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Oxford Valley Mall Isn’t Dead. It’s Becoming Bucks County’s Next Town Center.
Walk through Oxford Valley Mall on a Tuesday afternoon and something becomes obvious pretty quickly: this place is not what it used to be. Storefronts sit dark. Foot traffic that once packed the corridors on weekends has thinned to a trickle in spots. For generations, this was the mall where Lower Bucks County residents shopped,…
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The Airport Most Bucks County Travelers Overlook, And Why That Should Change
Most Bucks County travelers don’t think twice about where to fly from. They open a browser, search Philadelphia International, and start comparing fares. A few will check Newark or JFK. Almost nobody checks Trenton. That may be a mistake. Trenton-Mercer Airport sits just across the Delaware River in Ewing Township, New Jersey, closer to many…
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This Bucks County Distillery Offers Something Interesting and New for Locals and Visitors
Heather McGurrin’s Visit Bucks County feature put Ashlynn Distillery on the radar. Here’s the full story behind one of Morrisville’s best-kept secrets. Step inside and the place announces itself. Reclaimed barn wood aged 75 years lines the walls. Honeycomb shelves glow with house-made bottles. This is not a chain, not a concept, not a theme.…
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The Michener Art Museum Was Once a Jail. A New Exhibit Brings That History to Life.
Thousands of visitors have walked through the Michener Art Museum over the years without realizing they were standing on the grounds of the former Bucks County Jail. Now, one of America’s most acclaimed contemporary artists is helping tell that story. The Michener Art Museum will unveil Permanence: We Were Here on June 5, a newly…
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