The Ultimate Guide to a Lancaster County Amish Country Getaway

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.