| Amish Country Tours for 2009 Scamp 'n' Rascal Cycling Adventures |
Amish Back Roads Bicycle Tour
- Maximum 30 people
May 23 - 29 and July 11 - 17
6 Nights' Lodging,
6 Breakfasts, 5 Dinners
Maximum mileage 360 miles. 1 layover day
The quiet, buggy filled back roads of Amish country are full of surprises. Among them are some truly fantastic
hotels and bed & breakfasts that have helped make this our most popular tour by far. So popular in fact,
that we’re now offering it twice. You’ll find it’s impossible not to fall in love with the lush
countryside of bucolic Lancaster County. Visit with and learn about the Old Order Amish and their
Mennonite neighbors in a place where Pennsylvania Deutsch is still spoken in the home and English is a
second language. You’ll feel the gentler rhythms of an earlier time engulf you as you ride through the rich
farmland, past fields still ploughed by draft horses, and into the rolling hills of the Oley and Lehigh valleys.
May is fantastic riding in farm country. The air is cool. The sun feels great. The leaves are just out on the trees.
Farmers and their teams are busy planting in the fields. Flowering fruit trees smell sensational and look like clouds on
a stick. Everywhere you look there are newborns in the paddocks and fields; mares with their foals, cows with their
calves, ewes with their lambs and goats with…whatever baby goats are called. School is almost over. The children
have kicked off their shoes and are playing baseball in the school yards or hurrying home on their scooters.
July is glorious in Amish country. The sun is high in the sky. Days can be warm; even hot, since the only canopy you’ll
find is on the climbs. Everything that grows is at its peak. The fields are a patchwork quilt of different greens stitched
together by the riotous colors of the flower beds you find in every yard. Nothing in the world tastes as good as fresh,
homemade root beer.
Learn More about the Amish Back Roads Bicycle Tour
Click here to see an overview map of the route
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