Gobbler’s Knob is located about 2 miles southeast of Punxsutawney.
The rural site is best known as the ceremonial home of Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog at the center of Pennsylvania’s most famous Groundhog Day celebration. Before sunrise on February 2, handlers bring Phil from his temporary burrow and present him to the Inner Circle, whose members announce whether he has seen his shadow.
According to the tradition, a shadow means six more weeks of winter, while no shadow predicts an early spring. The prediction is folklore rather than a scientifically reliable forecast; weather studies have not found a consistent relationship between the ceremony and the timing of spring conditions.
Gobbler’s Knob is sometimes confused with the town itself because the annual event is commonly described simply as “Punxsutawney Groundhog Day.” The celebration’s public profile expanded sharply after the 1993 film Groundhog Day, although that movie was filmed mainly in Woodstock, Illinois, not at the actual Pennsylvania site.