In between your tours, get a bite at our Lunch & Snack Bar, stroll through the Playground and Park, and check out our Outdoor Mining Displays.Pioneer Tunnel's lunch and snack bar offers a wide variety of lunch and snack foods. Popular menu items include pizza, hamburgers, hot dogs, fish and chicken filet sandwiches, chicken fingers, hot wings, shrimp baskets, pierogies, mozzarella sticks and french fries. Tastycakes, ice cream, snack bags, candy and gum are also available for snacking. Beverages include soda, iced tea, milk, fruit drinks, and milkshakes made with homemade ice cream. Special menu packages for groups are also offered. Lunch can be eaten on our "front porch" or in the beautiful "Higher-Ups Park", the community park and picnic area adjacent to the Tunnel. The Higher-Ups Park offers plenty of picnic tables and a beautiful enclosed pavilion which is used by reservation for family reunions, parties and school groups. The park also includes a large open playground and clean public restrooms for visitors.

If you like festivals, you'll love our Pioneer Day Celebration held each year on the third Saturday in August...

On Saturday, August 16, 2008, Pioneer Tunnel will hold its annual "Pioneer Day" in celebration this year of its 46th anniversary. Many people look forward to Pioneer Day which is reminiscent of an old-fashioned community festival. In addition to the regularly scheduled coal mine tours and steam train rides, many special events are planned and held in Higher-Ups Park. A large craft fair with over 80 vendors will be selling beautiful homemade crafts throughout the park. In addition, there will be live music on the bandstand, an open-pit chicken barbeque, and entertainment for kids. Food is one of the main attractions and is sold in the park pavilion and under a large tent. Some of the delicious foods sold are of regional ethnic origins. Bleenies, pierogies, and haluskie are favorites. Bean soup, meatball and sausage sandwiches, french fries, homemade ice cream and soft pretzels are some of the many foods that are also sold in the park.

There is plenty of free parking at Pioneer Tunnel, and Pioneer Day is an event that is fun for people of all ages. The event runs from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM.

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