Cheap Trips: Live Music and Trout

Try one of these trips you can enjoy on just one tank of gas: Chaplin's, The Music Cafe in Spring City or the Lil-Le-Hi Trout Hatchery in Allentown.

Chaplin’s, The Music Cafe

Address: 66 N Main St., Spring City
How Far From Lower Macungie Patch: 31.1 miles, 53 minutes
Admission: varies
Times: Shows start at 8 p.m. unless another time is specified. Doors open an hour before showtime. Check website for more information.
Ongoing events: Chaplin’s Open Mic, Every Sunday; Acoustic Bluegrass Jam, 1st Thursday of each month.

Summary: If live music is your thing, then Chaplin’s, The Music Café is a place you must get to. Chaplin’s, The Music Cafe offers live music shows and is a true listening room with excellent acoustics. Originally built as a theater, music fans rave about the sound and its cool balcony as they listen to regional and national performers.

Links: 

• Patch Plance listing
• Website

Lil-Le-Hi Trout Nursery

Address: 2901 Fish Hatchery Road, Allentown
How Far From Lower Macungie Patch: 5.9 miles, 16 minutes
Admission: Free
Hours: Open daily 7 a.m. to dusk

About: The oldest continuously operated fish hatchery in the United States features volunteers from local sportsmen's clubs who raise thousands of trout each year to stock the Little Lehigh Creek and other streams in Allentown's extensive park system. Brook, brown, rainbow and golden trout from the Pa. Fish and Boat Commission arrive at the nursery as fingerlings and are raised to adulthood. Visitors can see pools housing fish in each stage of growth. Kids enjoy feeding the older fish. The adjoining park is open for picnics, hiking, biking and horseback riding.

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