Kenny Stutzman

Tour Guide Since 1985

 Thank you for expressing interest in our Gateway to Amish Country! We invite you to visit Northern Indiana’s beautiful farms, green grassland meadows, and beautiful flowing rivers. Watch the horse and buggies go by or maybe even take a ride in one! We want to show you our Amish/Mennonite community. While you are traveling, you will hear many stories of Amish/Mennonite heritage, and you will have a chance to ask questions along with the chance to experience some hands-on activities. We also have a step on Amish Tour Guide that would love to join you on the coach, speaking English along with Pennsylvania Dutch, their first language. You could even enjoy a delicious Thrasher’s dinner at one of our wonderful Amish homes! Join us for days of relaxation while possibly also enjoying an Amish farm, buggy shop, RV factory, quilt shops, rug weaving, or furniture shop tours. Shipshewana also offers many novelty shops to explore.
If you would like us to plan your itinerary, please give us a call. We would be glad to help and have over 25 years experience in touring and planning special events. There are so many unique things to see in the heart of “beautiful Northern Indiana Amish Country.” There is nothing that would please us more than to share these beautiful sights with you. We have one, two, and three day itineraries that can help you plan anything you would like. Please feel free to call if you need any suggestions or have any questions. We will work with you to build the best itinerary at the best price possible. We are confident that you will be pleased with our services. Contact us today for rates and availability!

2010 Tour Operator Rates

Amish/Mennonite Countryside guided tours
Travel the quaint back roads with a knowledgeable step on guide that will highlight the homes, farms, businesses, and schools in the area explaining the rich heritage and beauty of the area. Stops included are the Deutsch Kase Haus (cheese house), Yoder’s Popcorn, Dutch Market, Quilt shops, and Furniture shop. Allow 3 hours   Group rate - $5.00pp

Optional: Threshers dinner includes:  Real Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Homemade Noodles, Salads, Vegetables, Homemade Bread, (Real Butter & Jellies) Cream & Fruit Pies, and Meats –choice of two meats chicken, ham, delicious meat loaf patties, & Roast beef.  Beverage included. Allow 1 ½ hours     Group rates $19.00pp

Agriculture Tour’s
An Amish Dairy farmer will guide you through his milking parlor explaining from breeding to milking, will truly get you in the moooo’d!  He will also show you the Farm’s draft horses. On Friday’s we have the opportunity to visit the Shipshewana Horse auction. At the Buggy shop tour we will view the making of buggies and learn how the way of traveling, like Grandpa says “the wheel that squeaks the loudest gets the grease first!” Visit Jayco Trailer Company, one of the leading factories in the area.  Watch the production of trailers being built from start to finish. A stop at the local produce auction Will allow you to purchase fresh produce!   Grandma says “nothing tastes better than fresh from the garden” experience this auction! Next, take a tour of a buffalo farm where you will be educated on the life of a buffalo, a wagon ride to the fields of where the “buffalos roam,” and a chuck wagon dinner on the ranch is included.   Allow 7 hours     Group rate - $35.00

Quilt Garden Tours
Tour the Elkhart/ Lagrange county Quilt gardens, stopping at an exquisite park located in Middlebury, where gardeners from around the world have taken pleasure in its beauty since its creation for the 1933 Chicago World’s fair. We don’t want to miss the Amish quilts shops along the way! As lunch time draws near, head off to a nearby Amish homestead for a traditional meal and an antique quilt trunk show by local quilt historian Rebecca Haarer.      Allow 7 hours.     Group rate - $35.00

Covered Bridge Tour/Menno-Hof
In the morning, a tour of the Menno-Hof (An Amish/Mennonite Visitors Center) will explain the history and heritage cultures. In the afternoon enjoy a guided tour along the Indiana/Michigan State Line, touring the beautiful 1887 Langley covered bridge in the heart of Amish Country, the longest bridge in the state! Enjoy the beautiful Bonneyville Mill Park, home to Indiana’s oldest operating grist mill, powered by water, built in 1832. Watch as millers grind flour with stone, purchase some for home, and enjoy a scenic nature walk. In the evening sit back, relax and soak in the sites from aboard the Elkhart River Queen, a paddleboat that cruises on the St. Joseph River.    Allowance - full day

An Extended Guided Day Trip to Holland, Michigan. Call us for more details!  (HOLLAND PHOTO)

School Groups ~ the future for an “educational field trip” to Amish Country!
Visit a 70-acre family farm just outside of town, Shipshewana, experience the Amish farm life and have “hands –on” duties as our family milks Holsteins cows twice daily, we give the school children the opportunity to milk a cow by hand, have a taste of milk from the cow and help feed the baby calves, take pictures of the big Belgians work horses. Also offer Amish school visits, play games with the Amish children and have lunch with them. A Stop at the cheese factory watching cheese being made, while sampling many varieties.    Time allowed: 3 to 4 hours    Group rate-$15.00

Optional Buggy rides available: Experience 1/4 hour buggy rides     Rate - $5.00

Looking for something a little different that offered?
Contact Kenny and he will Customize a Tour Just for You!