Compass Inn Museum - Self-Guided Tour

Step back in time to the exciting days of stagecoach travel at Compass Inn Museum. With this self-guided tour, you can set your own pace exploring an early 19th-century stagecoach stop.

Compass Inn Museum is an authentically restored stagecoach inn that served as a popular stop for travelers on the Philadelphia-Pittsburgh Turnpike from 1799 until 1862. The museum is located in the beautiful Laurel Highlands just 3 miles east of Fort Ligonier on US Route 30.

Step back in time to the exciting days of stagecoach travel at Compass Inn Museum. With this self-guided tour, you can set your own pace exploring an early 19th-century stagecoach stop. Discover what traveling was like in the early 1800s before trains, planes and automobiles. The tour includes the original inn and three reconstructed outbuildings—a blacksmith shop with a working forge, a cookhouse with a beehive oven and open hearth, and a barn with an 1830s-style Concord stagecoach and a restored Conestoga wagon.