Central Valleys of the Susquehanna One-Day Options

We Are...Penn State, 1 Day, State College Go Nittany Lions!

n  Enjoy a driving tour including views of the famous Nittany Lion statue and Old Main. n  Tour the All-Sports Museum and peak into famous Beaver Stadium where the Big Ten Nittany Lion football team competes. n  You may also visit the Creamery and Palmer Museum of Art with meal on own downtown or at the Nittany Lion Inn and, if you wish, see a live Nittany Lion at Penn’s Cave Wildlife Park and All-Water Cavern nearby.  *   Available year round.

Take Me Out To The Ballgame, 1-2 Days, Williamsport Area Baseball today & yesterday!

Williamsport is rich in baseball history as the home of Original Little League which started here in the 1930's by brothers seeking to provide wholesome fun for their children, the current headquarters of Little League International and home to the Little League World Series and Museum, plus site of Historic Bowman Field where the Williamsport Crosscutters currently play as Class B affiliates of the world-champion Philadelphia Phillies.  n  Options include tour of both stadiums, visit to Little League Museum, visit to Original Little League field, Crosscutters home game plus other local sites.  n  For a wonderful family getaway we can include a Susquehanna riverboat cruise plus Penn's Cave, America's only all-water cavern plus wildlife park, in Centre Hall. Or a tour of a Sheep Farm where you'll see how the animals are raised for their prized fibers!   *   Options spring - fall, best weekdays with some weekend options.

Groundhog Getaway, 1-2 Days, Punxsutawney Area Learn about PA's furry weather forecaster and "audition" to be one yourself!

Learn about the tradition of Groundhog Day, meet its star, Punxsutawney Phil, who annually predicts the arrival of spring, and visit Gobbler's Knob where the annual Groundhog Day festivities take place.

n  Plus learn about other means of predicting the weather including a variety of myths and traditions at the Weather Discovery Center where you will have the chance to "audition" to be a TV meteorologist. Stand in front of the "green screen", read from a script and point out weather hot spots while seeing what you look like to a viewing audience on a TV screen. The best forecasters take home a special treat! Try this as a fun mystery tour for your group any time of the year! Great as a family get-away as well. n  A variety of overnight and multi-day options are available and can feature such activities as touring Straub Brewery which makes a Groundhog Brew, scenic driving tours in PA's Elk Country, chainsaw carving demos, wildlife tours at Penn's Cave which also features America's only all-water cavern, tours of Penn State Campus including the famous Nittany Lion Statue and more!

Just Desserts, 1Day, Lewisburg Area Eat dessert all day long!

It's not hard to figure out what this tour is all about! n     Visit a gourmet restaurant for chef demo and dessert.  n     Pair wines with chocolate fondue treats during a tour and tasting at a local winery.  n    Browse a Farmers Market where everyone will receive a freshly baked dessert item from a Penn Dutch vendor to take home.  n     Visit an artisan candlemaker for a workshop tour, demo and browsing among candles with scents including Banana Split, Wild Berries & Cream, Applesauce Cake, Pumpkin Pie or Creme Brule! If you wish we can include a souvenir candle in a "dessert" scent as a special gift.  n     Choose to include lunch at the gourmet restaurant or on own at the Farmers Market.  *   Available Wednesdays to visit the Farmers Market. (Variations for other days of the week available.)      Art & Soul, 1-2 Days, Williamport Area Highlighting the city's rich heritage. n     The one-day version of this guided Williamsport tour highlights historic churches and mansions during a driving tour and visits the magnificent Victorian Romanesque Annunciation Church and the Holy Cross Orthodox Church, featuring a hand-painted mural and relics, plus drive by the largest portrait mural in the world. n     Also featured is a behind-the-scenes kitchen peak and lunch at a culinary arts institute plus your choice of visits one or two of the following sites: the historic Community Arts Center now a state-of-the-art theatre, an artists’ complex plus shoe outlet for “soles” of a different sort, the Taber Museum displaying a Tiffany-stained glass church window and art by Severin Roesen, one of Jackie Onassis favorites. n     Overnights include all these sites plus perhaps combining with our Wonderful Good Tour below, featuring a Mifflinburg-area Penn Dutch tour including visit to traditional Mennonite church or our Crooks & Nooks Tour also below, for our Sinner & Saints version including a driving tour with views of the Federal Penitentiary where Al Capone and Jimmy Hoffa were inmates, plus "time up river" during a Susquehanna Riverboat cruise with a meal served by more "convicts"!  *   Available weekdays, year round.  Lotions & Potions, 1 Day, Lewisburg  Learn how to grow, use & enjoy herbs! n  Learn about growing herbs, their symbolism and how to brew herbal infusions at a home and garden shoppe plus take home seeds to add to your own garden.    n  Enjoy a winery tour plus taste delicious mint wine mojitos at Shade Mountain Winery. n  Savor an elegant luncheon in a Victorian mansion where herbs take the stage in such dishes as lavender chicken. *   Available weekdays and some Saturdays, year round.  This tour is a great Girlfriend Getaway, spring fling or fundraiser and is available in overnight versions including a “Pajama Party” riverboat cruise. The tour can also easily be made into a Goodie Bag Tour with gifts at each site with a special Trick-or-Treat variation as well. Coffee Klatch Crawl, 1 Day, Lewisburg Area Take time to smell the coffee! n  Explore quaint Lewisburg starting with a cup of “Joe” at one of the town’s many coffee shops, then a 5-block guided stroll of the historic downtown area full of cafes, art galleries and boutiques, leading to the  Packwood House Museum featuring collectibles from the local area and around the world including Tiffany glass, Chippendale furniture, quilts and coverlets, and more.    n  Time is included to continue exploring the downtown area on own for lunch with a walking tour map for everyone that highlights additional strolls along beautiful side streets and through Bucknell University. n  You’ll also visit an area gourmet soap company to see how soap is made and everyone will take home a bar of espresso truffle soap plus a bag of “Bucknell Brigade” organic Free Trade Coffee which comes from a region in Nigaragua that university students visit each year as part of a service learning program.   n  As an additional option we can include lunch or dinner at a local restaurant with a chef demo of Irish coffee with a serving for everyone!  n  For a great weekend getaway, check out our Java Jiving & Dumpster Diving tour on our Susuquehanna Valley multi-day tour options page. *   Available Monday through Saturday, year round.    Sensational Sweets, Soaps, Scents & Savories, 1 Day, Lewisburg Area Indulge. Soap from Pompeii Soap Co. n     Indulge in sweets along with a tour at an artisan candy factory.  n See how gentle and aromatic products are created at a the Pompeii Street Soap Company and choose a delicious bar such as fresh fig or ginger bliss to take home.  n Enjoy scents during a tour with demo at a candlecrafters’ workshop.  n Savor the flavors during an afternoon tea in a Victorian mansion restaurant where treats include white chocolate & pear mousse and chocolate berry bread pudding. Lunch on own or included.  n Choose to include lunch at the gourmet restaurant or on own at the Farmers Market.  * Best Monday through Thursday, year round.       From Farm to Fork, 1-2 Days Farm Tours and delicious local foods! Celebrate “green cuisine!” Try a “taste of place” tour focusing on our local landscape and farmers whose effortsbring fresh food to our tables. Tour one or two family farms such as a 112-acre farm specializing in sheep, pigs and chickens and a 39-acre produce farm where the owners grow heritage crops as well as contemporary favorites, with the opportunity to talk with the farmers about their sustainable agricultural practices. Collect eggs or felt wool from locally grown and sheared sheep, visit a Maze Park (see our A-Mazing Fun Tour, below), enjoy a seasonal meal featuring our local bounty, and perhaps visit a local farmers market. n     Our Barnyards to Vineyards and the Artisans In Between overnight trip includes a tour and tasting at two wineries plus gourmet meal overlooking a vineyard, farm tours as described above, farmers market plus artisan candlecrafter, artisan soap maker and more! Evening options include flashlight safari in a corn maize, line dancing or musical performer and if you dare we can include hog mud wrestling as a fun and dirty adventure. This makes a great fundraiser with lots of laughs for a good cause! * Available Late-August to late-October to include corn maize. Wining Around the Susquehanna Valley, 1-2 Days, Lewisburg  A barrel of fun!   n  Brunch with champagne cocktail demo and sample plus two winery tours.     n  If traveling on the fall, the chance to include a private grape stomping adventure!  *   Available year round. To include grape stomping must be Sept. or October.  Girls Just Want To Have Fun!, 1-2 Days, Lewisburg  Antique treasures, shopping and delicious Victorian Tea!   Explore Lewisburg's eclectic blend of cafes, art galleries and boutiques while taking in the beautiful Victoria architecture of the historic area.   n  Stroll among Tiffany glass, Chippendale furniture, quilts and collectibles at the Packwood House Museum.   n  Visit Colonial Candlecrafters for a workshop tour, candle-decorating demo and browsing.  n  Finish the day at the Victoria House Restaurant, a 19'th century showpiece, where you'll be treated to an afternoon tea featuring finger sandwiches, scones and a dessert sampler including white chocolate & pear mousse, chocolate berry bread pudding, orange shortbread and more.     *   Available Monday to Friday, year round. For Saturday travel instead of visiting the candleshop we may visit a home & garden shoppe or winery. For Sunday travel we may replace Packwood House Museum with a visit to Slifer House Victorian Museum Mansion and browse an antique center or indoor Street of Shops instead of downtown Lewisburg.  Elite Treats Millionaires Row, 1 Day, Williamsport We'll treat you like a millionaire!

n     Our Victorian-attired guide will lead you along Millionaires' Row where the 19th-century lumber barons built their mansions and churches.You'll visit the Romanesque-style Annunciation Catholic Church plus Queen Anne-style Rowley House Mansion to enjoy appetizers in the mansion's elegant dining room which was recently featured in "Victorian Homes" magazine for its wonderful stained glass and woodworking.   n     Next stop, Herdic House, built as an Italianate mansion by Peter Herdic who was the founder of Millionaires' Row. Enjoy a delicious gourmet entree plus explore the site that includes a mahogany staircase curving three floors to a cupola.  n     End with a cruise aboard the Hiawatha Riverboat, a replica of the vessel that graced the Susquehanna in the 1800's, and a selection of desserts including berry tarts, lemon bars and petit fors plus Victorian shrubs, a delicious fruit spritzer. *   Best Monday through Thursday, May through late-October.

Ready! Set! Cook!, 1 Day, Williamsport Chef demo and hands-on culinary classes. Photo courtesy of Penn College We have expanded our chef demos, hands-on classes and culinary presentations options at a Williamsport culinary arts school where you can also dine in the teaching restaurant and peek into the teaching kitchen! Choose an option below and we’ll pair it with other area activities.   n     You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream offers everyone the chance to make “ice-cream-in-a-flash”, then participate in a version of an Iron Chef Competition where our chef shows how to make traditional ice cream, then teams flavor their own batch. After lunch we have a taste-off with an award certificate for the winning team! Mid-May through mid-Aug.  n     Mangia Pasta features the history, styles and recipes for pasta and sauces with groups dividing into teams to make some themselves to take home. Lunch features the pastas and sauces learned during the class. Mid-May through mid-Aug.   n     The Art of Food Garnishing includes a demo plus hands-on participation with a take-home instruction book and tools. Turn any meal into a piece of art with these tricks of the trade! Mid-May through mid-Aug.        n     Taste, Taste, Taste Wine Classes are available on a variety of topics helping you explore wine varietals and regions. The best way to learn is to taste, taste, taste! Mid-May through fall.    n     Chocolate! Chocolate! Chocolate! features a chef demo class with a couple of volunteers helping create delicious chocolate desserts. For a natural pairing we will also include a Susquehanna River cruise with chocolate trufflettes and/or chocolate martinis for everyone! Mid-May through mid-Aug.      Behind-The-Scenes in the Susquehanna Valley, 1Day, Lewisburg Area Sneak Peeks! Chippers from Sensational Sweets Choose to visit three of these fun sites: n  Sensational Sweets, an artisan candy factory where a specialty is chippers, their trademarked "Bark with Bite" combining chips of tart fruity hard candy with a creamy white chocolate blend.  n  Kohl's Christmas Tree Farm, where you'll learn how the trees are grown and wreaths are made, view a 300+ tree stand collection and browse! n  Colonial Candlecrafters, a candle factory for a tour of the workshop and a candle-decorating demo plus browsing. n  Shade Mt. Winery, where you'll learn how vines are grafted on special root stock during a tour and tasting.  *   Options available weekdays and Sundays, year round. Saturday variation with site substitutions. Millionaires Indulgences, 1 Day, Williamport Area Indulge in this economical tour! n  Cruise the Susquehanna River for relaxing scenic views just as the lumber barons did in the mid-1800's.  n  Enjoy a guided tour of Millionaires' Row where the barons built their ornate grand mansions. n  Visit an 18th-century Victorian church and the 1928-vintage Community Art Center recently restored to its former luster. n  As a special treat we'll make everyone honorary millionaires with "million dollar bills"! *   Best midweek, mid-May through late-October.    Christmas Unwrapped, 1 Day, Milton/ Catawissa A peek at pre-season holiday preparations! n  Visit a Christmas tree farm, where you'll learn how the trees are grown, see how wreaths are made, view a 300 piece tree stand collection and browse in its Christmas shop for ornaments.   n  Learn how to make a bow then stuff a 24" x 15" bag with you choice of specialty bows from Berwick Ribbon & Bow Outlet's discount bins at no additional charge. Laugh out loud as a few members of your group participate in a gift wrapping contest wrapping the craziest items we can find!  n  Look for Rudolph during a visit to a red deer farm where you'll enjoy wagon rides into the fields.  n  Lunch on own or included. *   Available May through October, Tuesday through Saturday. Tricks of the Trade, 1 Day, Lewisburg Area Chef demos and more. Photo courtesy of Bob Bergey n  Dine at the Victoria House Restaurant for a delicious brunch including a chef demos.  n  Visit a home and garden specialty shoppe to learn how to make a living wreath centerpiece. n  Enjoy a tour and tasting at a local winery where you'll learn how to pair wine and food.  n  Learn how to take care of your candles and how to use them to set the right mood during workshop tour and demo at Colonial Candlecrafters.  *   Available Monday through Friday year round.  Susquehanna Valley Artisan Sampler, 1-2 Days, Lewisburg    Authentic artisan tours, great food, gifts and entertainment! This guided tour includes specialty sites in the Lewisburg and Mifflinburg areas. Select three of the sites listed below to visit on a day tour, or visit them all on an overnight. For more fun we can make this a goodie bag tour and include gifts from each site! Beautifully handcrafted soaps from Pompeii Soap Co. n Sensation Sweets' candy factory tour with delicious gift. n Pompeii Street Soap Company for demo, browsing and a bar of soap for everyone.  n Colonial Candlecrafters for workshop tour and demo.  n Country Farm & Home for browsing at the home and garden boutique. n Shade Mountain Winery for tour and tasting.  n Green Ridge Market to browse the Penn Dutch country market and/or Wedneday Farmers Market. *  Options available Mon. - Sat., year round.   Crooks & Nooks Up River, 1Day, Lewisburg/ Williamsport The tour that started it all! On the lam since the early 1990's when Landmark was founded, our convict managed to evade police for more than a decade "hijacking" motorcoaches and leading groups on crooked trails through Williamsport and Lewisburg to views othe Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary where Al Capone and Jimmy Hoffa did time! n  Case the homes of Williamsport's historic and present-day millionaires during a driving tour of Millionaires' Row.   n  Perhaps find a stash of hidden "million dollar bills" when touring of Rowley House Mansion. n  Enjoy lunch served by more "convicts" as you cruise "up river" on the Hiawatha Riverboat.  *   Available mid-May through late-October. I Spy Pie Goodie Bag Tour, 1-2 Days, Lewisburg/Mifflinburg Whoopie Pies, Shoofly Pie, Chicken Pot Pie & more! A special version of our Wonderful Good Tour below including a Mennonite-guided driving tour, this trip is full of pies! n  Enjoy chicken pot pie and shoofly pie for lunch at Carriage Corner Restaurant.  n  Collect a whoopie pie when you browse at a Penn Dutch grocer. n  Tour Packwood House Museum where you'll enjoy a Quilts and Coverlets and receive a surprise pie-related special treat. n  Also included is a step-on guide for the day who sets the theme of the tour be giving everyone a cow pie (the edible version) at the beginning of the day and a recipe booklet with pie recipes at the end of the tour. On our overnight version we add in a visit to Colonial Candlecrafters for a workshop tour and demo plus jelly jar candle for everyone scented with pumpkin spice or apple crisp, additional activities based on group preferences. *  Available year round. Wonderful Good Penn Dutch Fun, 1 Day, Lewisburg/ Mifflinburg Sit back and enjoy the scenery. n  A Mennonite guide leads you on a driving tour of picturesque Penn Dutch farmlands, welcomes you to his church, sings some favorite hyms and explains why he travels by horse and buggy.  n  Enjoy a Penn Dutch buffet including traditional "sweets and sours", "slippery pot pie" and more at Carriage Corner Restaurant. n  Visit Packwood House Museum for Quilts & Coverlets Tour. n  Browse at a Penn Dutch dry goods store where each group member will receive a whoopie pie.   *   Best Monday through Wednesday and Friday, April to October.  Millionaires, Mansions & Monuments, 1-2 Days, Williamsport Putting on the Ritz! n  One-day tour includes a Victorian-inspired costumed guide leading the way to the Queen Anne-style Rowley House Mansion full of magnificent woodwork and stained glass profiled in "Victorian Homes" magazine, and the Tuscan-style Herdic House for a delicious meal. Also included may be a visit to the Romanesque Annunciation Church, Susquehanna River cruise, plus visit to the Little League Statue commemorating the sport's founding in Williamsport. For a deluxe version of the tour check out our Elite Treats Millionaires' Row Progressive Luncheon Tour. n  The overnight version of this tour includes our new Time for Tea Tour below ot the Dishing it Up Tour also outlined on this page. As an evening option, consider a performance at the beautiful Community Arts Center. Click on our Theatre link for season highlights.  *   Available mid-May through late-October to include riverboat. Year round for other sites.  Recipe Roulette, 1 Day, Lewisburg    Try to guess the recipe! A fun day of exploring some of our favorite sites while collecting ingredients, learning interesting tidbits about them, and trying to guess what they make along the way. At the end of the day you'll get the recipe and a sample! n Tour a Victorian mansion and receive a can of condensed milk which was invented in the Victorian era by Gail Borden.   n Browse a Penn Dutch or Farmers Market to pick up a freshly baked ingredient.   n Visit a shoppe filled with items for home and garden where you'll receive raisins as your gift. n Enjoy a tour and tasting at a winery and receive a split of wine. The mystery will be revealed as group samples the recipe.  Have you guessed the recipe? It's for delicious bread pudding with apple   wine sauce. A great mystery tour!  *  Works Available Monday through Saturday, year round. Red Hattitude, 1-2 Days, Lewisburg/Mifflinburg A day filled with red and purple! n  Visit Victoria House Restaurant for a colorful meal including lavender chicken, purple rice, red velvet sponge cake and more.  n  Learn about lavender at a specialty garden shop.  n  Enjoy red wines during tour & tasting at a local winery.   n  Visit a candle workshop for a tour and demo plus time for browsing.   *   Available weekdays, year round. Custom weekend options available. Bikes, Barns & Bows, 1Day, Berwick/ Catawissa Hidden Treasures! n  Visit Bill's Olde Bike Barn to finda an amazing array of motorcycles and memorabilia including a military display featuring foxhole and military bike with a 1940 military parachute covering the display, a player guitar, antique carousel horses from Europe, and much more.   n  Visit the Rolling Hills Red Deer Farm for wagon rides into the fields where the deer roam.   n  Browse at a ribbon and bow outlet where you'll stuff a bag full of bows to take home at no additional charge! *   Best Wednesday through Saturday with some Monday and Tuesday, May through October.