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Things to Do in Pittsburgh

Winter

Things to do under $25

• Cheap Seats Program (deeply discounted tickets for grads, their friends and families to eleven different arts organizations)
• First Night Pittsburgh
• Holiday Spectacular (November)
• Improv comedy
• Mid-Winter Soup Contest (February)
• Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium
• Pittsburgh Penguins (Student rush hockey tickets)
• PPG Plaza outdoor ice skating rink
• Roller Derby (Steel City Derby Demons are the home team)
• Schenley Park Skating Rink

Things to do for free

• Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (Meet grads at one of their many social or civic events)
• Museums of Pittsburgh (Carnegie museums of art and natural history, the Andy Warhol, Mattress Factory, the Heinz History Center, and more -- see Free Visits)
• Joy of Cookies tour in Lawrenceville (December)
• Miniature Railroad & Village (Holiday layout at Carnegie Science Center)
• Pittsburgh Light Up Night
• Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens (see Free Visits)
• Women's Basketball game at the Pete

Spring

Things to do under $25

• Arts & Crafts Festival (March)
• Cheap Seats Program (deeply discounted tickets for grads, their friends and families to eleven different arts organizations)
• Improv comedy
• Passion Play (Longest-running in the U.S.)
• Pedal Pittsburgh (May)
• Pittsburgh Pirates (Outfield/bleachers/grandstand tickets)
• Pittsburgh Penguins (Student rush hockey tickets)

Things to do for free

• Art All Night (24 hours of art and music in April)
• Museums of Pittsburgh (Carnegie museums of art and natural history, the Andy Warhol, Mattress Factory, the Heinz History Center, and more -- see Free Visits)
• Frick Park Events
• Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (Meet grads at one of their many social or civic events)
• Schenley Plaza Music Schedule
• Spring Flower Show (At Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, see Free Visits)
• Women's Basketball game at the Pete

Summer

Things to do under $25

• Bike Rental

• Cheap Seats Program (deeply discounted tickets for grads, their friends and families to eleven different arts organizations)

• Citiparks swimming pools (Day passes or summer passes available)
• Improv comedy
• Kennywood (Get the affter 5 p.m. discounted entry pass)
• Pittsburgh Pirates (Outfield/bleachers/grandstand tickets)
• Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium
• Sandcastle Water Park (Get the after 3p.m. discounted entry pass)

Things to do for free

• Bach, Beethoven & Brunch (Sundays at Mellon at Park Fifth and Shady Avenues)
• Citiparks Farmers' Markets
• Cinema in the Park
• Community Festivals (explore heritage, food and entertainment of Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods)
• Mt. Washington and the Inclines
• Farmers@Firehouse (Mostly organic farm market with slow food tastings)
• Fish for Free Days (Fishing without a license is allowed)

• Jam on Walnut (Fourth Saturday of June, July, and August)

• Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (Meet grads at one of their many social events)
• Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix (July)
• Pittsburgh International Children's Theater Family Series (May)
• Stars at Riverview (Jazz on Saturday evenings)
• Station Square Street Jam (Friday nights in July and August)
• Three Rivers Arts Festival (June)
• Unblurred First Fridays on Penn (Art, Music, and Performance. First Friday of the month on Penn Ave)
• Wings Over Pittsburgh Airshow (September)

Fall

Things to do under $25

• Cheap Seats Program (Deeply discounted tickets for grads, their friends and families to eleven different arts organizations)
• Christmas Festival (October)
• Colonial Festival (September)
• Improv comedy
• Handmade Archade (Pittsburgh's largest indie craft fair in November)
• Haunted Pittsburgh (Area haunted houses)
• Mexican War Streets House & Garden Tour (September)
• Lawrenceville Hospitality House Tour (October)
• Phantom Fright Nights at Kennywood (Get discounts on college nights in October)
• Reilly’s Summer Seat Farm & Garden Center (Harvest festival every October weekend)
• StepTrek (Climb the stairways built into hillsides in October)

Things to do for free

• Museums of Pittsburgh (Carnegie museums of art and natural history, the Andy Warhol, Mattress Factory, the Heinz History Center, and more -- see Free Visits)
• Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (Meet grads at one of their many social or civic events)
• Mt. Washington and the Inclines
• Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens (see Free Visits)
• World renown murals of Croatian artist Maxo Vanka
• Unblurred: First Fridays on Penn