Bunola, PA

Bunola is a tiny community in Allegheny County, tucked along the eastern bank of the Monongahela River in Forward Township. With only around a hundred residents, it has a very quiet, spread-out feel roughly 25 miles south of Pittsburgh. The river shapes daily life and the scenery here, where working barges still move past steep, wooded valley hills. It suits anyone looking for a low-key, secluded pocket of southwestern Pennsylvania with deep roots in the region's industrial river history.