Location
The chart below lists local attractions and the distance from Verdant View Farm.
| Train Attractions | |
| Strasburg Railroad (the tracks go though Verdant View Farm) | 1/4 mile |
| Choo Choo Barn | 1/4 mile |
| Toy Train Museum (adjacent to Verdant View Farm) | 5-minute walk |
| Pennsylvania Railroad Museum | 1/4 mile |
| Amish/Mennonite/Regional Information | |
| you are welcome to accompany the Ranck family for Sunday services at Witmer Heights Mennonite Church | 6 miles |
| Mennonite Information Center & Hebrew Tabernacle | 5 miles |
| PA Dutch Convention & Visitors Bureau | 7 miles |
| Lancaster County Information Center (website only) | |
| Amish Farm & House | 5 miles |
| People's Place Museum | 5 miles |
| Kitchen Kettle Village | 5 miles |
| Amish Village | 3 miles |
| Family Activities | |
| Amazing Maize Maze (seasonal) | 1/2 mile |
| Landis Valley Farm Museum | 11 miles |
| Lancaster County Buggy Rides | 5-minute walk |
| Ed's Buggy Rides | 2 miles |
| Village Greens Mini Golf (seasonal) | 2 miles |
| Bird-in-Hand Mini Golf (seasonal) | 3 miles |
| Lapp Valley Farm (petting zoo and homemade ice cream shop) | 8 miles |
| Strasburg Bowling Alley | 2 miles |
| Entertainment | |
| Sight & Sound Theatre | 2 miles |
| Living Waters Auditorium | 2 miles |
| American Music Theatre | 4 miles |
| Rainbow Dinner Theatre (comedy) | 2 miles |
| Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre | 12 miles |
| Hershey Park & Chocolate World | 40 miles |
| Restaurants | |
| Isaacs (Deli and Restaurant) | 1/2 mile |
| Dinners with Amish Families | several within 5 miles |
| Red Caboose | 5-minute walk |
| Hershey Farm | 2 miles |
| Dienner's Country Restaurant | 2 miles |
| Miller's Smorgasbord | 2 miles |
| Bird-in-Hand Family Restuarant | 3 miles |
| Strasburg Pizza | 1 mile |
| Strasburg Creamery & Restaurant | 1 mile |
| Good 'n Plenty Family Style Restaurant | 4 miles |
| Quilts | |
| Ruth Ranck | 3-minute walk |
| Lapp's Quilts | 2 miles |
| J&B Quilts | 2 miles |
| People's Place Quilt Museum | 5 miles |
| Outlet Shopping | |
| Rockvale Square | 4 miles |
| Tanger Outlets |
5 miles |
| Historic Sites | |
| Wheatland (home of President James Buchanan) | 10 miles |
| Edward Hand's Home | 10 miles |
| Revere Tavern (where Paul Revere stayed) | 3 miles |
| Farmers Markets | |
| Central Market | 10 miles |
| Green Dragon Farmer's Market | 17 miles |
| Root's | 20 miles |
| Bird-in-Hand Farmer's Market | 3 miles |
| Dairy Treats | |
| September Farm Cheesemaking | 12 miles |
| The Town Clock Cheese Shoppe (Gap) | 6 miles |
| Scenic Drives | |
| Lime Valley Road to Strasburg - pass an 1846 mill, a non-functioning one-room school house, many farms and a covered bridge (4 miles one way). | |
| Verdant View to Andrews Bridge - many Amish and English farms, produce stands, small shops (13 miles one way) | |
| Welsh Mountain Drive - Verdant View Farm to Gap, through Salisbury, to Blue Ball and Morgantown - Historic Poole Forge, 1859 covered bridge, stone homes of Churchtown, Smuckers's Harness Shop, farms, woods (26 miles one way). | |
| Intercourse to Middle Creek - village of Intercourse, farms with typical architecture, Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area (32 miles one way) | |
| Towns/Cities | |
| Strasburg | 1 mile |
| Intercourse | 5 miles |
| Paradise | 3 miles |
| Bird-in-Hand | 3 miles |
| Lancaster City | 10 miles |
| Hershey | 40 miles |
| Philadelphia | 60 miles |
| Harrisburg | 40 miles |
| Baltimore | 80 miles |
| Washington, DC | 130 miles |
| New York City | 150 miles |