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| Bicycle Tour | 1-2 hours | $15 | Several miles | A tailored and customized ride to fit our group - we'll determine togther how long to make our ride. Our goal is to have everyone experience the beauty of Pittsburgh combined with the sense of achievement that comes from pedaling your way around our three rivers on a bike trail. There is no better way to experience this great city. | http://bikepittsburgh.com/ |
| Carnegie Art Museum | 2 hours | $15 ($11 students) | 5 minute walk | The Carnegie Museum of Art offers a distinguished collection of contemporary art that includes film and video works. The Hall of Architecture contains the largest collection of plaster casts of architectural masterpieces in America and one of the three largest in the world. | http://www.cmoa.org/ |
| Carnegie Museum of Natural History | 2 hours | $15 ($11 students) | 5 minute walk | The Carnegie Museum of Natural History is ranked among the top five natural history museums in the United States. It boasts the world's largest collection of Jurassic dinosaurs and The Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems, which contains more than 1300 specimens and is one of the finest and most importatn mineral exhibitions in the country. | http://www.carnegiemnh.org/ |
| Carnegie Science Center | 3 hours | $20 | 4 miles | With an interactive planetarium, three live demonstration theatres, a Cold War-ear submarine, and more than 400 hands-on exhibits including Highmark Sportworks® and roboworld™, the Science Center has everything to staisfy your scientific curiosity. | http://www.carnegiesciencecenter.org/ |
| Cathedral of Learning Nationality Rooms tour | 1 hour | $3 | 10 minute walk to University of Pittsburgh's campus. | These 26 functional classrooms in the towering Cathdral of Learning display the rich ethnic heritage of the Pittsburgh area, each architedted and decorated in a style that exemplifies the country they represent. Where else can you visit 26 countries in one day! We'll take a guided tour. | http://www.pitt.edu/~natrooms/ |
| Frick Museum | 2 hours | $3 | 2 miles | The museum and its collections are the legacy of Helen Clay Frick, daughter of Henry Clay Frick, one of America's greatest industrialists and art collectors. During your time at the Frick, you can view fine and decoratiive arts and artifcts, magnificent exhibitions and vintage cars and carriages. | http://www.frickart.org/index.php |
| Lark in the Park Nature Walk | 1-2 hours | $0 | 5 minute walk to Schenley Park | Situated in the heart of Oakland, Schenley Park has come to be Pittsburgh's civic park. Created in 1889 with land donated by heiress Mary Schenley, the park now contains 456 acres of trails, woods, and attractions. We'll take a nature walk along some of its prettiest trails. | http://www.pittsburghparks.org/schenley |
| Outdoor Sports | 1-4 hours | $0 | 5 minute walk | We'll grab some frisbees, a soccer ball, tennis rackets and whatever other sports equipment people want to play with and head to some local fields to play for the afternoon. | |
| Phipps Conservatory (a tour is included to those attending the Conference Banquet) | 2 hours | $12 | 5 minute walk | Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, a great steel and glass Victorian greenhouse, offers a world of botanical gardens in Pittsburgh, from equatorial tropics to desert blooms to Japan's sacred forests. Special exhibits will include the Tropical Waters of the Amazon and the Butterfly Forest. | http://phipps.conservatory.org/ |
| Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game | Game time TBA - 4 hours | $9-$20 depending on seats | 4 miles | Watch the Pirates take on the Chicago White Sox at one of the most beautfiul stadiums in the nation, which overlooks downtown and the Allegheny River | http://www.pittsburghpirates.com/ |
| Pittsburgh 'Rivers' Casino | 4 hours | As much as you want to spend! | 4 miles | Opened in August 2009, Rivers Casino is located next to the Steeler's home field and sports 3,000 slots, video poker, exciting progressives and also the latest in virtual blackjack and roulette games. | http://www.theriverscasino.com/ |
| Station Square and Incline | 4 hours | $5 | 3 miles | Station Square's 52-acre riverfront complex thrives with over 1.2 miles of the city's most unique dining, entertainment and boutique shopping. Next door is the Monogahela Incline which will take us up to the top of Mt. Washington. Overlooking downtown Pittsburgh, this spot is ranked Second Most Beautiful View in America by USA Weekend Magazine. | http://www.stationsquare.com |
| Theatre Outing | TBD | TBD | 3 miles to downtown Cultural District | To Be Determined based on theatre schedules for June. | |
| Warhol Museum | 3 hours | $18 ($10 students) | 3 miles | The museum, housed in a renovated seven-floor warehouse building, displays more than 500 works of art, drawn from its extensive collections of works by Andy Warhol in all media, as well as from its huge archives and a collection of works by other artists. | http://www.warhol.org/ |