The Ultimate Guide to a Lancaster County Amish Country Getaway #amishcountrypa #lancasterpa

By highlighting the 5 main characteristics of Lancaster County, I put together this planning guide to help others have a good knowledge base of how to plan their visit to Lancaster. I have a subscription with the design website Canva and used it for a lot of my footage, including the thumbnail and intros in the video. They are awesome! Lancaster Travel Websites that are very helpful: https://www.discoverlancaster.com/ https://lancasterpa.com/ https://lancasteronline.com/ https://mennonitelife.org/ Timestamps: (to get to that part in the video, just click on the time/numbers) 0:23.00 intro 1:03.00 overview of 5 objectives 1:27.00 1st objective - food 1:38.00 examples of classic PA Dutch food 2:20.00 list of popular Lancaster smorgasbords/buffets 2:34.00 Shady Maple 2:57.00 Bird-in-Hand Family Restaurant 3:45.00 Miller's Smorgasbord 4:25.00 Hershey Farm 5:05.00 Oregon Dairy 5:31.00 Dienner's Country Restaurant 5:55.00 Smokehouse BBQ & Brews 6:21.00 Good 'n Plenty 6:43.00 Yoder's Restaurant & Lititz Family Cupboard 7:08.00 Menu Dining Options 7:17.00 Dienner's & Bird-in-Hand Restaurants 7:28.00 Katie's Kitchen 7:50.00 Hometown Kitchen & Dutch Way Restaurant 8:18.00 #2 Planning Objective - Local Culture 8:40.00 tours 8:55.00 Old Windmill Farm 9:24.00 Verdant View Farm Tours 9:42.00 Kreider Farm Tours 10:05.00 Lapp Valley Farm Tours 10:30.00 Buggy Ride Tours - Aaron & Jessica's, AAA Buggy Rides, Abe's Buggy Rides 11:00.00 Mennonite Life Center personalized tours 11:19.00 Old Order Amish Tours 11:34.00 Lokal Experiences 11:58.00 All-Inclusive Lancaster/Amish Tours - The Amish Farm & House, The Amish Village and The Amish Experience 12:56.00 Other museums of Lancaster - Mennonite Life Visitor Center, Wheatland (President James Buchannan's Home), Historic Rock Ford, Landis Valley Farm & Museum, Ephrata Cloister, Johannes Mueller House/Lititz Historical Society, & the National Toy Train Museum 14:05.00 #3 Planning Objective - Entertainment 14:30.00 Sight & Sound Theaters 15:00.00 Other theaters - American Music Theater, Fulton Theater, Dutch Apple Dinner Theater, the Magic & Wonder Show, and the Bird-in-Hand Stage 15:19.00 The Strasburg Railroad 15:52.00 The Choo Choo Barn 16:04.00 The National Toy Train Museum & The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania 16:12.00 Cherry Crest Adventure Farm 16:17.00 Village Greens Miniature Golf Course 16:39.00 Strasburg Scooters 16:58.00 Hersheypark, Chocolate World & Hershey Gardens 17:14.00 Dutch Wonderland 17:43.00 #4 Planning Objective - the Shopping of Lancaster 18:26.00 The Farmer's Markets - Root's Country Market & Auction, The Green Dragon, The Bird-in-Hand Farmer's Market, and Lancaster Central Market 19:17.00 The Countryside Road Stand 19:34.00 Local Shopping Recommendations - Kitchen Kettle Village; the town of Intercourse 20:08.00 Shopping in Lititz (plus all towns in Lancaster County have shops) 20:28.00 #5 Planning Objective - Down Time 21:10.00 Local sights to look for while driving around - covered bridges, Amish workers in the field, hanging tobacco, hanging Amish laundry, scooters, the Amish and - 21:45.00 Horse & Buggies 22:08.00 My personal planning tips 23:18.00 Wrap up and questions for you A big thank you to the following who have shared their pictures with me to make these videos better: Shady Maple, Oregon Dairy, the Bird-in-Hand Corporation, Discover Lancaster, Sight & Sound, Good 'n Plenty, Strasburg Scooters, Village Greens Miniature Golf Course, the Amish Village, the Amish Farm & House, and Dutch Wonderland. I did a lot of screen-sharing and screenshots from the websites of the following companies: Smokehouse BBQ & Brews, the Amish Experience, Dutch Way Restaurant, Hometown Kitchen, the video of Sight & Sound, Dutch Apple Dinner Theater, the Magic & Wonder Show, Yoder's Restaurant, Lititz Family Cupboard, Johannes Mueller House (Lititz Historical Foundation), Pinterest, Yelp, Kreider Farms, Lapp Valley Farm, Landis Valley Farm, Verdant View Farm, Old Order Amish Tours, Mennonite Life (visitor center), Lokal Experiences, Historic Rock Ford, Wheatland, Ephrata Cloister, National Toy Train Museum, the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, Hershey Gardens, The Green Dragon, and Lancaster Central Market.