The Abraham Lincoln - A Wyndham Hotel

There's always something to do in Reading, PA

Shopping, wineries, golf, shows, sports, history and the rich culture that makes Berks County such a vibrant and diverse place, means there's never a dull moment while staying at the Abraham Lincoln hotel.

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Arts & Cultural

• gogglewWorks Center for the Arts - The country's largest, most comprehensive, interactive arts center is filled to the brim with artist's studios in Ceramic, Glass, Jewelry, Metal, Textiles, Photography and Wood. You can explore the galleries or the film theater, watch artists create or create your own masterpiece during the many classes, workshops and summer camps.
• Mid-Atlantic Air Museum - From the first manned balloon flight in Philadelphia in the 18th century the MAAM chronicles the general history of aviation, offers education and rides in classic planes, and is host to the premier airshow of it's kind - the Mid-Atlantic WWII Weekend - the first full weekend every June.
• Sovereign Performing Arts Center/Sovereign Center Arena - The Goo-Goo Dolls to Judas Priest, ventriloquist Jeff Dunham to pulic radio's Garrison Keillor, Cirque du Soleil to the Harlem Globe Trotters, Mama Mia! to Damn Yankees - the Sovereign Center/Performing Arts Center offers music, comedy and broadway-calibur shows to fit every taste.
• The Miller Center - Celebrating its 5th year in 2011, the 509-seat Miller Center brings quality theater and dance companies, children's programs, and improv comedy to Reading. Home to the Berks Ballet Theater, the Miller Center also delights audiences with its commitment to artists workshops, post-show disussions and meet-n-greet events.
• The Reading Public Museum - From art to science, from culture to culture, from this world to outer space, the Reading Public Museum offers European Master's masterpieces, treasures from anceint civilization including an Egyptian mummy, Natural Science wonders from dinosaur fossils to insects and everything in between that will feed the imagination of all ages.

Points of Interest

• Daniel Boone Homestead - Take a step back in time and experience the life of 18th century settlers at this historic site where Daniel Boone was born and grew up. Immerse yourself in living history demonstrtions, hand-on activities, hiking trails, flint-lock shoots and more.
• Historic Joanna Furnace - A 19th Century Iron Furnace that is open for visitors to observe the operations the 3rd Saturday of every month, with a schedule of food, music, flea market, crafts, exhibits and car shows, as well as multiple Festival weekends throughout the year.
• Hawk Mountain - The world's first sanctuary for birds of prey, Hawk Mountain is the ideal outdoorsman destination, with 2600 acres including 8 miles of hiking trails, a Visitor Center and Mountain Bookstore, weekend lectures and programs, and of course the chance to see large numbers of hawks, eagles and falcons in all their glory.
• The Pagoda - Reading's world-famous pagoda, built in the style of a Shogun Dynasty battle castle, intrigued movie producer M. Night Shamayla to film part of his movie The Last Airbender, here. For now, it overlooks the city from atop Mount Penn, hosting events like Sunset at the Pagoda and offers a Gift Shop.

Shopping

• VF Factory Outlets - Built on the site of what was once the world's largest hosiery mill, America's first discount destination - VF Outlet Center - still welcomes over 4 million visitors a year to its 75 stores, featuring 20%-70% off designer and brand namee every day. It is truly "the mother of all outlet malls"!
• Philadelphia Premium Outlets - Stay at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel and discover outlet shopping at it's finest at the Philadelphia Premium Outlets. The only upscale designer and brand name outlet center in the Greater Philadelphia area, you'll find savings of 25% - 65% every day at 150 top-name stores.
• Shops of West Reading - Just over the bridge, the boutique stores abound - offering everything from bridal gowns to big kid toys, art to accessories you can't live without, specialty chocolate to organic eats, jewelry to shoes, consignment treasures to Celtic wares.

Sports & Amusements

• Maple Gorve Raceway - Experience 300+ mph NHRA Full-Throttle Drag Racing at the home of the NHRA Nationals, as well as weekly drag racing events from March to early November, like the Super Chevy Show series and Ford Fun Weekends series.
• First Energy Stadium/Reading Phillies - Officially named Baseballtown USA, Reading, PA is home to the MLB Reading Phillies - double A affilite of the Philadelphia Phillies - where $16M in renovations have turned the-still-oldest stadium home in the Eastern League into a state-of-the-art facility, complete with 4-tiered picnic area, heated pool pavilion, several bars, kid's Phunland, giant videoboard and all the things that make America's favorite past-time BASEBALL.
• Sovereign Center Arena/Reading Royals ECHL Ice Hockey & Reading Express IFL Arena Football - Two minor league champion teams call the Sovereign Center Arena home: catch non-stop ice hockey action with the Royals from October thru March, and in-your-face indoor football with the Express from early March thru May.

Local Events

• MARCH - Annual Berk's Jazz Fest - Reading PA's world-famous annual music festival, that, each March, hosts the likes of Chris Botti, Wynton Marsalis, Ponsho Sanchez, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Rick Braun, Boney James, Brian Culbertson, Grover Washington, Buddy Guy, Joe McBride, Chuck Loeb, Kirk Whalum, Roberta Flack, Al Jarreau, Dione Warwick - and the list goes on and on.
• JUNE/JULY - Kutztown Folk Festival - PA Dutch folklife and fun are found every year at this festival that combines quilt auctions, crafts, cake-walking, square-dancing, 5 stages of continuous entertainment, special children's areas, folklore, early farming techniques such as blacksmithing, weaving, decoy carving, metal-working, tinning, stained glass, hex signs, and chair caning... and then, there's the FOOD...
• SEPTEMBER - Bowers Chili Pepper Food Festival - A two-day celebration of all things peppers - pepper plants, pepper-wear, pepper jelly, pepper jewelry, pepper-flavored just-about-everything - plus all kinds of other food, live music, tons of craft/items for sale, as well as salsa-making and jalepeno-eating contests.