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 | |
Cherry Crest Adventure Farm (seasonal) | 1/2 mile |
Landis Valley Farm Museum | 11 miles |
Strasburg Scooters | 1/2 mile |
AAA Buggy Rides | 5-minute walk |
Ed's Buggy Rides | 2 miles |
Village Greens Mini Golf (seasonal) | 2 miles |
Lapp Valley Farm (petting zoo and homemade ice cream shop) | 8 miles |
Entertainment | |
Sight & Sound Theatre | 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 |
Fireside Tavern | 1/2 mile |
Iron Horse Inn | 1/2 mile |
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 | |
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 |