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Things to Do in Pittsburgh

Summer

Things to do under $25

• Citiparks swimming pools ($4 day pass, summer passes available)
• Improv comedy
• Kennywood (After 5 pm it's $16 for complete access to the park, except for Sky Coaster)
• Pittsburgh Pirates (Outfield/bleachers/grandstand tickets)
• Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium
• Roller Derby (Steel City Derby Demons are the home team)
• Sandcastle Water Park ($21.99 gate price after 3pm)

Things to do for free

• Art Cubed (Art, Music, and Culture on June 6-7, 2009)
• 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 (Two days a year when fishing without a license is allowed)

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

• Pittsburgh International Children's Theater Family Series (May 12-16, 2010)
• Stars at Riverview (Jazz on Saturday evenings)
• Station Square Street Jam (Friday nights in July and August)
• Three Rivers Arts Festival
• Unblurred First Fridays (Art, Music, and Performance. First Friday of the month on Penn Ave)
• Wings Over Pittsburgh Airshow

Fall

Things to do under $25

• Christmas Festival
• Colonial Festival
• Improv comedy
• Haunted Pittsburgh (Area haunted houses)
• Reilly’s Summer Seat Farm & Garden Center (Harvest festival)

Things to do for free

• Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh (Four museums: art, natural history, science, and Andy Warhol)
• Handmade Archade (Pittsburgh's largest indie craft fair TBD in November 2009)
• Harvest Valley Farms Fall Festival
• Mattress Factory (A museum of installation art)
• Mt. Washington and the Inclines
• StepTrek 2009 - Sunday October 4, 2009 (climb the stairways built into hillsides)
• World renown murals of Croatian artist Maxo Vanka

Winter

Things to do under $25

• First Night Pittsburgh
• Holiday Spectacular
• Improv comedy
• Mid-Winter Soup Contest
• Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium
• Pittsburgh Penguins (Student rush hockey tickets)

Things to do for free

• Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh (Four museums: art, natural history, science, and Andy Warhol)
• Mattress Factory (A museum of installation art)
• Miniature Railroad & Village (Holiday layout at Carnegie Science Center)
• Pittsburgh Light Up Night
• Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens

Spring

Things to do under $25

• Improv comedy
• Passion Play (Longest-running in the U.S.)
• Arts & Crafts Festival
• 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 on April 25-26, 2009)
• Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh (Four museums: art, natural history, science, and Andy Warhol)
• Frick Environmental Center Events
• Mattress Factory (A museum of installation art)
• Schenley Plaza Spring Opening
• Spring Flower Show (At Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens)
• Visit Schenley and Frick Parks