A new family-friendly puzzle spot has quietly opened its doors inside the Plymouth Square Shopping Center. Exit 4 Escape Room is officially up and running, with a grand opening event scheduled for Friday, May 15th.

Escape rooms are one of those rare activities that work for a birthday party, a date night, a team outing, or that one cousin who claims to be good at everything. You get locked in a themed room, you solve puzzles, you try not to argue with your in-laws. Conshohocken now has its own without driving into the city.

Details and hours are over at MoreThanTheCurve's writeup.

If you have small humans and a calendar full of summer holidays to fill, mark this one down. Elmwood Park Zoo in Norristown has announced free admission on three holidays this summer as part of the local celebrations marking the country's 250th birthday. The first one on the list: Memorial Day, May 25th, from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

While we are on the zoo beat, there is plenty happening between now and then. Nature Explorers covers Desert Life on May 14th and Pollinators on May 21st. First Responders Touch A Truck takes over the zoo on May 16th from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, which is the kind of event where your kid will inspect a fire engine for forty minutes and then ask to inspect it again. Quiet Mornings, an early-entry program for guests with special needs and their families, runs May 28th from 9:00 to 10:00 AM.

Full schedule at the zoo's events page.

Three riverfront townhouses along the Schuylkill in Conshohocken (technically Whitemarsh Township, for the borough purists keeping score) sold this year for more than $1 million apiece. That is according to MoreThanTheCurve's reporting.

For longtime residents who remember when this stretch was, let's say, less aspirational, the number is its own kind of news. For families thinking about staying versus stretching, it is a useful data point about what the market thinks Conshy is worth right now.