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Hot diggity! It's a new year. You know what that means, don't you? New routes, new
friends, new places to explore, new challenges and excitement and tales to tell -all
because we're lucky enough to be able to spend our days on the back of a bike.
Welcome to Scamp ‘n’ Rascal Cycling Adventures. We’re so glad you’re here. We
hope you love to play as much as we do. We’ve been busy scouting out the very best
of what we love about Pennsylvania for you. We’ve taken the most beautiful sights,
the most intriguing curiosities, the most comfortable places to stay and the most
delicious meals, connected them all with the best possible roads and now we want to
share them all with you.
Pennsylvania has more miles of paved roads than any other state in the union and
78,000 miles of them are back roads that wander through a huge variety of
unbelievably beautiful terrain. They are simply begging to be ridden. That makes PA
a cyclist’s heaven. We have all the beauty of Vermont, all the cultural curiosity of
Europe…and none of the traffic. It’s no wonder so many professional cyclists come
here to train.
We've added a few new adventures to the calendar this year. There are more
weekend tours and we're introducing our new Up River Tour, which we're confident
you're going to love. We've also included a different version of our High Spirits Tour
that we're really pumped about. We've mentioned where there are group size
limitations and we encourage you to register early for those tours, especially the
camping tours.
So come play with us. Whether you prefer the gently rolling hills of Amish country, the
moderate, rolling terrain of the eastern hills, or the lung searing ribbon candy of Coal
Country, we know you'll have a great time. You’ll ride hard and rest easy! That's what
we love to do.
Amish Back Roads Bicycle Tour
May 17- 23 and September 6 - 12
Registration for the May tour 5 Nights' Lodging,
closes April 15 6 Breakfasts, 4 Dinners
It’s impossible not to fall in love with the lush countryside of bucolic Lancaster County.
Visit with and learn about the Old Order Amish and their Mennonite neighbors in a
place where Pennsylvania Deutsch is still spoken in the home and English is a
second language. You’ll feel the gentler rhythms of an earlier time engulf you as you
ride through the rich farmland, past fields still ploughed by draft horses, and into the
rolling hills of the Oley and Lehigh valleys.
Learn More about the Amish Back Roads Bicycle Tour
Amish Back Roads Bicycle Tour - Special Edition
Maximum 30 people
July 5 - 11 6 Nights' Lodging,
6 Breakfasts, 5 Dinners
The quiet, buggy filled back roads of Amish country are full of surprises. Among them
are some truly fantastic hotels and bed & breakfasts that are too small to
accommodate our regular Amish Back Roads tour. We’ve incorporated these
delightful morsels into our regular route to create a very special version of our Amish
Back Roads Tour.
Learn More about the Amish Back Roads Bicycle Tour - Special Edition
Amish Country Weekend
Maximum 30 people
May 30 - June 1 and September 26 - 28
Registration for the May 30 weekend 2 Nights' Lodging
closes April 30 2 Breakfasts, 2 Dinners
There is no prettier, more peaceful place to ride than along the rural farm roads of
Amish country, where you often see more buggies than cars. This weekend we’ll stay
in the beautiful, very comfortable, Greystone Manor Bed & Breakfast, right in the
heart of Bird In Hand, PA. From there we will wend our way through some of the
prettiest byways of this lush countryside. Saturday we’ll ride past one room school
houses and horse ploughed fields to one of America’s earliest religious communities,
the Ephrata Cloister. On Sunday we’ll pedal deep into Amish country, far, far from the
modern world. You’ll know you’ve ridden back in time when the telephone poles
disappear.
Learn More about the Amish Country Weekend
The High Spirits Beer and Wine Tour
June 11-15 and October 8-12
Registration for the June tour 4 Nights' Lodging
closes May 11 4 Breakfasts, 2 Dinners
Kick up your wheels and join us on this rollicking jaunt along Amish country roads.
This some of the very best riding and sight seeing ever. The tour is great just on that
merit alone, but that's not enough for us. The High Spirits tour sloshes over the rim
with fun. We're traveling to two very different, very delicious wineries. (Yes, we'll SAG
some home for you.) But that's not all. This is Dutch country. People speak German.
Here there is BEER. In June we're going to Stoudt's Brewery and the rowdy mayhem
that is the Great Eastern Invitational Microbrew Festival. In October we're going to
party in the catacombs of Bube's Brewery (yes, it's pronounced "Boobies"), an award
winning small batch brewery with a great selection of beers and a flair for outrageous
fun. We promise (threaten?!) a night to remember!
This tour has it all: silky, quiet roads, yummy wines, Amish country scenery, oodles of
sight seeing and BEER!
Learn More about the High Spirits Ride
The Up River Tour
Maximum 20 people
June 21-27 and October 18-24 (Fall Foliage).
5 Nights' Lodging
6 Breakfasts, 4 Dinners
Our Great Ride camping tour was so popular last year that we decided to work out an
Inn to Inn version of it. The roads and scenery are spectacular as we ride across the
forested ridges and along the rivers and streams that shaped this breathtakingly
beautiful region. You'll have a chance to visit historic Grey Towers, home of Gifford
Pinchot, enjoy Jazz at the Deer Head Inn, ride to the highest point in New Jersey for a
hundred mile view of the areas through which we're pedaling, and maybe watch a
Bald Eagle soar so close above you that you can hear the wind in his wings. (It
happened last year on GRAMPA!)
Learn More about The Up River Tour
The Water Gap Weekend
Maximum 20 people
3 Nights - July 17-20 or 2 Nights - July 18-20
2 or 3 Nights' Lodging
2 or 3 Breakfasts, 2 Dinners
There's a lot of uniqueness around Water Gap, PA. Of course there is the famous
Delaware Water Gap, with its unique geology. Then there is the equally famous (in
Jazz circles, anyway) Deer Head Inn, with it's unique place in the history of Jazz. And
finally there are the back roads that lead in and out of this musical Mecca. There are
so many of them that we couldn't cram all the gorgeous riding into a two day
weekend. So we stretched it. And that's pretty unique, too!
Learn More about the Water Gap Weekend
The Great Ride Around the Mountains of Pennsylvania
Camping Tour -
Minimum 25 people, Registration closes June 30
August 16-22 4 Nights' Camping
1 Night's Hotel
6 Breakfasts, 5 Dinners
Don’t be put off by the word “mountains”. Any fit cyclist will love this tour. The roads
are mostly empty, canopied and cool. The scenery is off the charts beautiful. You’ll
sleep in National Parks and private campgrounds, often along the banks of the
Delaware. Did we mention the food? Oh Baby will you feast! What’s more, if you can
bear to stay off your bike on our rest day, you can hike the Appalachian Trail or take
a canoe trip down the river. To top it all off, we’ll spend the last night at the historic
Pocono Manor Inn and Spa – just because we can!
Learn More about the Great Ride Around the Mountains of Pennsylvania
The Coal Cracker Ramble
Camping Tour -
~~ It'll Break Your Stones~~
Minimum 25 people, Registration closes May 31
August 2 - 8 5 Nights' Camping
6 Breakfasts, 5 Dinners
Most people don't think of riding Pennsylvania's Coal Country for vacation, but then
most people don't know what we know. If you love hills, love scenery, love velvet
roads with almost no traffic, love fantastic food, camping and roller coasters then this
tour is absolutely for you. We won't lie. This tour is hard. Really hard. If you're a
tourist this may be the toughest tour you ever do. But it's also going to be among the
most beautiful, the most fun and the most satisfying.
Learn More about the Coal Cracker Ramble
friends, new places to explore, new challenges and excitement and tales to tell -all
because we're lucky enough to be able to spend our days on the back of a bike.
Welcome to Scamp ‘n’ Rascal Cycling Adventures. We’re so glad you’re here. We
hope you love to play as much as we do. We’ve been busy scouting out the very best
of what we love about Pennsylvania for you. We’ve taken the most beautiful sights,
the most intriguing curiosities, the most comfortable places to stay and the most
delicious meals, connected them all with the best possible roads and now we want to
share them all with you.
Pennsylvania has more miles of paved roads than any other state in the union and
78,000 miles of them are back roads that wander through a huge variety of
unbelievably beautiful terrain. They are simply begging to be ridden. That makes PA
a cyclist’s heaven. We have all the beauty of Vermont, all the cultural curiosity of
Europe…and none of the traffic. It’s no wonder so many professional cyclists come
here to train.
We've added a few new adventures to the calendar this year. There are more
weekend tours and we're introducing our new Up River Tour, which we're confident
you're going to love. We've also included a different version of our High Spirits Tour
that we're really pumped about. We've mentioned where there are group size
limitations and we encourage you to register early for those tours, especially the
camping tours.
So come play with us. Whether you prefer the gently rolling hills of Amish country, the
moderate, rolling terrain of the eastern hills, or the lung searing ribbon candy of Coal
Country, we know you'll have a great time. You’ll ride hard and rest easy! That's what
we love to do.
Amish Back Roads Bicycle Tour
May 17- 23 and September 6 - 12
Registration for the May tour 5 Nights' Lodging,
closes April 15 6 Breakfasts, 4 Dinners
It’s impossible not to fall in love with the lush countryside of bucolic Lancaster County.
Visit with and learn about the Old Order Amish and their Mennonite neighbors in a
place where Pennsylvania Deutsch is still spoken in the home and English is a
second language. You’ll feel the gentler rhythms of an earlier time engulf you as you
ride through the rich farmland, past fields still ploughed by draft horses, and into the
rolling hills of the Oley and Lehigh valleys.
Learn More about the Amish Back Roads Bicycle Tour
Amish Back Roads Bicycle Tour - Special Edition
Maximum 30 people
July 5 - 11 6 Nights' Lodging,
6 Breakfasts, 5 Dinners
The quiet, buggy filled back roads of Amish country are full of surprises. Among them
are some truly fantastic hotels and bed & breakfasts that are too small to
accommodate our regular Amish Back Roads tour. We’ve incorporated these
delightful morsels into our regular route to create a very special version of our Amish
Back Roads Tour.
Learn More about the Amish Back Roads Bicycle Tour - Special Edition
Amish Country Weekend
Maximum 30 people
May 30 - June 1 and September 26 - 28
Registration for the May 30 weekend 2 Nights' Lodging
closes April 30 2 Breakfasts, 2 Dinners
There is no prettier, more peaceful place to ride than along the rural farm roads of
Amish country, where you often see more buggies than cars. This weekend we’ll stay
in the beautiful, very comfortable, Greystone Manor Bed & Breakfast, right in the
heart of Bird In Hand, PA. From there we will wend our way through some of the
prettiest byways of this lush countryside. Saturday we’ll ride past one room school
houses and horse ploughed fields to one of America’s earliest religious communities,
the Ephrata Cloister. On Sunday we’ll pedal deep into Amish country, far, far from the
modern world. You’ll know you’ve ridden back in time when the telephone poles
disappear.
Learn More about the Amish Country Weekend
The High Spirits Beer and Wine Tour
June 11-15 and October 8-12
Registration for the June tour 4 Nights' Lodging
closes May 11 4 Breakfasts, 2 Dinners
Kick up your wheels and join us on this rollicking jaunt along Amish country roads.
This some of the very best riding and sight seeing ever. The tour is great just on that
merit alone, but that's not enough for us. The High Spirits tour sloshes over the rim
with fun. We're traveling to two very different, very delicious wineries. (Yes, we'll SAG
some home for you.) But that's not all. This is Dutch country. People speak German.
Here there is BEER. In June we're going to Stoudt's Brewery and the rowdy mayhem
that is the Great Eastern Invitational Microbrew Festival. In October we're going to
party in the catacombs of Bube's Brewery (yes, it's pronounced "Boobies"), an award
winning small batch brewery with a great selection of beers and a flair for outrageous
fun. We promise (threaten?!) a night to remember!
This tour has it all: silky, quiet roads, yummy wines, Amish country scenery, oodles of
sight seeing and BEER!
Learn More about the High Spirits Ride
The Up River Tour
Maximum 20 people
June 21-27 and October 18-24 (Fall Foliage).
5 Nights' Lodging
6 Breakfasts, 4 Dinners
Our Great Ride camping tour was so popular last year that we decided to work out an
Inn to Inn version of it. The roads and scenery are spectacular as we ride across the
forested ridges and along the rivers and streams that shaped this breathtakingly
beautiful region. You'll have a chance to visit historic Grey Towers, home of Gifford
Pinchot, enjoy Jazz at the Deer Head Inn, ride to the highest point in New Jersey for a
hundred mile view of the areas through which we're pedaling, and maybe watch a
Bald Eagle soar so close above you that you can hear the wind in his wings. (It
happened last year on GRAMPA!)
Learn More about The Up River Tour
The Water Gap Weekend
Maximum 20 people
3 Nights - July 17-20 or 2 Nights - July 18-20
2 or 3 Nights' Lodging
2 or 3 Breakfasts, 2 Dinners
There's a lot of uniqueness around Water Gap, PA. Of course there is the famous
Delaware Water Gap, with its unique geology. Then there is the equally famous (in
Jazz circles, anyway) Deer Head Inn, with it's unique place in the history of Jazz. And
finally there are the back roads that lead in and out of this musical Mecca. There are
so many of them that we couldn't cram all the gorgeous riding into a two day
weekend. So we stretched it. And that's pretty unique, too!
Learn More about the Water Gap Weekend
The Great Ride Around the Mountains of Pennsylvania
Camping Tour -
Minimum 25 people, Registration closes June 30
August 16-22 4 Nights' Camping
1 Night's Hotel
6 Breakfasts, 5 Dinners
Don’t be put off by the word “mountains”. Any fit cyclist will love this tour. The roads
are mostly empty, canopied and cool. The scenery is off the charts beautiful. You’ll
sleep in National Parks and private campgrounds, often along the banks of the
Delaware. Did we mention the food? Oh Baby will you feast! What’s more, if you can
bear to stay off your bike on our rest day, you can hike the Appalachian Trail or take
a canoe trip down the river. To top it all off, we’ll spend the last night at the historic
Pocono Manor Inn and Spa – just because we can!
Learn More about the Great Ride Around the Mountains of Pennsylvania
The Coal Cracker Ramble
Camping Tour -
~~ It'll Break Your Stones~~
Minimum 25 people, Registration closes May 31
August 2 - 8 5 Nights' Camping
6 Breakfasts, 5 Dinners
Most people don't think of riding Pennsylvania's Coal Country for vacation, but then
most people don't know what we know. If you love hills, love scenery, love velvet
roads with almost no traffic, love fantastic food, camping and roller coasters then this
tour is absolutely for you. We won't lie. This tour is hard. Really hard. If you're a
tourist this may be the toughest tour you ever do. But it's also going to be among the
most beautiful, the most fun and the most satisfying.
Learn More about the Coal Cracker Ramble