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Explore our Amish Backroads at your own pace with trip ideas that ensure you’ll do more than just scratch the surface of all we have to offer. You’ll discover the experiences that make Shipshewana/LaGrange County so unique. Those that keep visitors returning, again and again, as well as those that few people know about.

Shipshewana

Barn Quilt Trail of Northern Indiana

Barn Quilt Trail of Northern Indiana

There's no better way to experience the culture and history of rural Northern Indiana than by hitting the road to travel through the gently rolling countryside. As colorful quilt-pattern murals adorn historic barns, family homesteads and public ...more

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Blue Gate Theater

The Blue Gate Theater is the best place for evening entertainment in Shipshewana, and is fast becoming a household name in the Midwest. 2012 will feature the musicals "The Confession" & "Half Stitched the Musical," both written by New York Times ...more

T: 260-768-4725  | W: View Website

Buggy Lane Tours

Buggy Lane Tours

Two locations- on the Boardwalk or Hostetler Gifts- Main & Morton Street. 2-3 hour back roads country tours. Visit Amish schools, farms, buggy and furniture shops. Enjoy Amish in home dinner. Lodging in our Horse/Carriage House. We welcome customized ...more

T: 574-238-4498  | W: View Website

Cathy's Countryside Tours

Cathy's Countryside Tours

Experience the tranquility of Shipshewana's simple lifestyle from a local's perspective. Custom designed tours of any size with local history and insider tips as you travel.

T: 260-502-0045  | W: View Website

Mary Ellen's Homespun Tours

Mary Ellen's Homespun Tours

Full service itinerary planning and step-on guide offering authentic Amish cultural experiences and scenic back roads driving tours for your group. All tours are custom designed.

T: 260-768-4262 

Riegsecker Carriage

Riegsecker Carriage

Make your Shipshewana experience complete. Carriage/Buggy Rides and Child's Pony Rides.

T: 260-768-4725  | W: View Website

Middlebury

Miller's Buggy Line Tours

Miller's Buggy Line Tours

Located across from the famous Flea Market in Shipshewana! We offer buggy riders; farm tours; 2-3 hour Backroads tours and step on guide service. Several tours end the day at Amish friends for dinner. Eat in their kitchen at a very large table. ...more

T: 260-768-4494  | W: View Website

Nappanee

Amish Acres

Amish Acres

America's Complete Amish Heritage experience. Explore Amish Acres 80-acre farm featuring historic interpretation through guided tours of the only Old Order Amish farm listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Enjoy live musical theatre and ...more

T: 800-800-4942  | W: View Website

Ligonier

Annie Oakley Perfumery Studio & Gift Shoppe

Annie Oakley Perfumery Studio & Gift Shoppe

-Take a Factory Tour -Sample Natural Fragrances -Browse our Gift Shoppe -Create your own unique fragrance Share in the Magic Enjoy a rare opportunity to view a perfume studio and experience a world collection of natural and organic fragrances. You ...more

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Auburn

Auburn-Cord Duesenberg Museum

Auburn-Cord Duesenberg Museum

The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum is indisputably the "home of the classics," honoring three extraordinary motoring marquees from America's golden age of the automobile. The museum is situated in the factory showroom and administration building of the ...more

T: 260-925--1444  | W: View Website

Elkhart

Down the Road Tours

Down the Road Tours

Customized or themed tours (Brown Bag, Quilt Gardens, Delicious Stitches Shop-Hop, Autumn and Christmas special itineraries). Travel back roads along the Heritage Trail, the Wellfield Botanical Gardens, historic homes, countryside shops and explore ...more

T: 574-266-0048  | W: View Website