Lancaster County is the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, a patchwork of farms worked by one of the largest Amish and Mennonite communities in the world. The city of Lancaster is the county seat.
You'll share the back roads with horse-drawn buggies and pass roadside stands selling produce, quilts, and furniture. It's farm country first, but a popular one to visit.
Families come for Dutch Wonderland and nearby Hersheypark, while the Ephrata Cloister and Landis Valley Museum tell the older story.
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