Kings Gap Environmental Education Center

Saturday, September 1st
Sunday, September 2nd

Bigfoot Boot Camp- A Leave No Trace Workshop

For Kids, Families, and Youth Groups

 address: 500 Kings Gap Rd., Carlisle, PA 17015-9306

Time: 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Workshop times: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Travel to A.T. Museum: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Hike Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Description: Bigfoot's been leaving no trace for years.  Have fun with the Leave No Trace™ National Travelling Team by learning from games and activities how you can leave no trace like Bigfoot.  As part of a half-day workshop sponsored by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, Kings Gap State Park and Environmental Education Center, Pine Grove Furnace State Park and the Appalachian Trail Museum, participants will take part in fund and engaging workshop to learn how to enjoy the outdoors responsibly and ensure the long term health of our natural world. 

Sunday: After completing the workshop above, participants will travel to nearby Pine Grove Furnace State Park for a meet and greet with "Heroes of the A.T." at the Appalachian Trail Museum. Participants will be able to meet real life trail maintainers from local Appalachian Trail clubs, check out their equipment, and learn about ways to volunteer for the Trail. Participants will then complete boot camp with a short and easy hike on the Appalachian Trail, concluding at 6:00 pm.

Leave No Trace™ is a national program that strives to educate all those who enjoy the outdoors how to minimize their recreational impacts. Learn more about the Leave No Trace program at: www.lnt.org .

Kings Gap Environmental Education Center and Mansion:

The 2,531 acre Kings Gap Environmental Education Center features over 18 miles of hiking trails and the Cameron/Masland Mansion and garden.   The 38-room mansion was completed in 1908 using mountain stone quarried on site.   The garden which once provided vegetables to the mansion kitchen now features herb, native habitat and shade gardens along with a compost demonstration area. The center is operated by the PA Bureau of State Parks and grounds are open year-round from sunrise to sunset.

Additional information on the Kings Gap Environmental Education Center is available here.

Dickinson College Farm Walking Tour

September 1st
  1o:00 am - 11:00 am ; 553 Park Dr., Boiling Springs, PA 

Farm Walking Tour

Directions are available on their website, here!

Description: Dickinson College Farm is a 50-acre Certified Organic and Food Alliance Certified educational working farm that has over 15 acres of vegetable production ground and 18 acres of animal pasture. The DC Farm provides produce to the college’s dining hall, a local food bank, a local farmer’s market and a 130-family CSA program. College students assist with all aspects of the farm’s food production. The farm raises vegetables, herbs, flowers, and pastured sheep, beef, broilers and layers.

Guided tours will be led by a farm staff member or apprentice farmer and will include stops at our greenhouses, compost rows, production fields, livestock pastures, yurts and solar energy installations.

Group Capacity is 50 people! Make sure you arrive early to secure your spot! (Dickinson will split people into groups of 25 and give two concurrent tours)

RESERVE YOUR SPOT, TODAY!

SIGN UP HERE!

Check out the Farm website here!

Gettysburg Wine and Fruit Trail

Saturday, September 1st

Sunday, September 2nd

Two for One Value on the Gettysburg Wine and Fruit Trail during South Mountain Outdoors September 1st and 2nd! 

Visit the Gettysburg Wine and Fruit Trail during SMO Festival and begin your Connect the Dots adventure as well!

Visit all open vendors!

To obtain these offers listed below during the South Mountain Outdoors Festival, present your Gettysburg Wine & Fruit Trail map guide and your South Mountain Outdoors Passport!

For the Connect the Dots! brochure: head to any of the member's businesses, visitor center at the Train Station in Gettysburg; Mr. Ed's on Rt. 30; Totem Pole Playhouse on Rt. 30; Caledonia State Park and Pine Grove Furnace State Park headquarters/visitors center,

OR, download it from the website, here - www.gettysburgwineandfruittrail.com

Reid's Orchard & Winery

2135 Buchanan Valley Rd  Orrtanna 677-7047  www.reidsorcharwinery.com

Sept 1: Music in the Valley! Free Concert Series   from 2 - 5 pm  The Willys     "Classic rock and beyond" band. 

Sept 2: Music in the Valley! Free Concert Series from 1-4 pm: Cold River Rounders  Appalachian Old Time Music 

BYOF: Bring Your Own Food.  Pet-and Family-Friendly Venue!  Fresh Fruit Sangria, Wine Slushies, Non-alcoholic Icees and wine by the bottle / glass available.  Sodas and water.

Special offer: Buy one Fresh Fruited Sangria and get second at half-price! Buy one Wine Slushie and receive second free!  Limit one per person.

Hauser Estate Winery

 410 Cashtown Road, Biglerville  334-4888   www.hauserestate.com

Sept 1: The Adams County Arts Council will have local artists demonstrating and selling their art from 12 - 6 pm; Jazz Me band performs from 6 - 9 pm.  Catered food from 6 - 9 pm.

Sept 2: Open 12 - 5 pm.

Special Offer: 10% off all wine and cider purchases when you check in before the sale with your Gettysburg Wine & Fruit Trail map guide.

Boyer Nurseries & Orchards, Inc.

 405 Boyer Nursery Road, Biglerville  www.boyernurseries.com

Special Offer: Receive $2 off any $10 or greater purchase! Free apple cider samples.

Hollabaugh Bros. Fruit Farm & Market 

545 Carlisle Road, Biglerville [717]677-8412   www.hollabaughbros.com 

Special Offer: Free apple cider donut with $10 purchase.  Limit one per person.

This farm market just opened in their brand new facility with an in-house bakery, locally made hand-dipped ice cream, and much more! The store is open Monday through Thursday from 9 am to 6 pm, Friday and Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm, and Sunday noon to 5 pm.

Historic Round Barn & Farm Market 

298 Cashtown Road, Biglerville  334-1984   www.roundbarngettysburg.com 

Special Offer: Free 1/4 peck of apples (our selection) with purchase.  Limit one per person.

 

N.E.W. A-Ville Inn

27 N. High Street, Arendtsville  677-9259  www.newa-villeinn.com

 Special Offer: Buy One Get One at 1/2 price: Buy one sandwich or dinner entree at regular price and get one of equal or lesser value at 50% off.

Penn Trails: The Quaker Botanists in Penn's Woods Hike! @ Ironmaster’s Mansion at Pine Grove Furnace State Park

Saturday, September 1st

Penn Trails presents:

"The Quaker Botanists in Penn's Woods:

What we have learned from them and what we continue to learn from them"

Join Kim Blocher and Larry Knutson for a 90 minute talk and hike as we explore a little known aspect of our Pennsylvania history. Of the great plant explorers and botanists who searched North America in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, there were among them a disproportionate number of Quakers. Why is that? What are the plants they discovered and how have those plants been useful to us?

Participants will embark on a short hike and talk about the particular native plants discovered by men such as John Bartram. Michaux forest is a treasure trove to be explored, and you will do so in the spirit of these intrepid botanists.

Gather Saturday, September 1st at 1:00 pm at Ironmaster's Mansion in Pine Grove State Park.

Total Time: 90 Minutes

Group Size: limited to 18 people - registration is first come first serve. Register Here.

Kim Blocher is an amateur botanist and pastor of Zion United Church of Christ in Arendtsville, Larry Knutson is owner of Penn Trails, and both are members of the South Mountain Partnership.



Dill's Tavern

Saturday,September 1st
Sunday, September 2nd

9:00 am - 4:00 pm
address: 227 N. Baltimore St. | Dillsburg, PA 17019
admission is $4.00



Dill's Tavern is a National Register Historic Property.

Along with the surrounding Plantation, it has been rehabilitated as an educational facility and historic venue. Owned and operated by the Northern York County Historical and Preservation Society, events and activities are held to increase understanding of local history and to promote general interest and culture within the community.

See the website to find out more about Dill's Tavern: Dill's Tavern

Conococheague Institute for the Study of Cultural Heritage

Saturday, September 1st

8:00 am - Noon ; the Conococheague Institute Visitors Center, 12995 Bain road, Mercersburg, PA 17236

Conococheague Audubon Nature Walk at the Conococheague Institute

The guided Audubon Nature Walk will take place: 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Participants are encouraged to RSVP by contacting The Conococheague Institute at pioneerhistory@innernet.net or call [717] 328-3467 - Drop-ins are also welcome.
Nature walkers should gather by 8:00 a.m. at the Welsh Barrens Visitors Center and should dress for a woodland walk - taking precautions to avoid ticks, especially.
The terrain is very easy, and the pace will be slow. Some of our trails are wheelchair and stroller accessible!

Great for families and children!

Come throughout the weekend to enjoy gardens, wetlands, woods and the historic buildings at The Conococheague Institute.

The Conococheague Institute will also be open for general site tours:
8:00 am - 4:00 pm on Saturday,
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm on Sunday

The Conococheague Institute, headquartered within a well-preserved 18th century farmstead near Welsh Run, PA, is a regional center dedicated to promoting the understanding and stewardship of the cultural and natural history of the Appalachian frontier of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. The Institute strives to achieve its mission through education, interpretation, research, and preservation. It operates a 30-acre historic site with park land, walking trails, wetlands, historic house museums, a research library and a gift shop. Hours of operation are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. -5 p.m. and other times by appointment.

Caledonia State Park: The Underground Railroad

Saturday,
September 1st
10:00 am - Dusk
Location: 40 Rocky Mountain Rd, Fayetteville, PA [717] 352.2161




Join Caledonia Staet Park and the Franklin County Visitors Bureau on Saturday, September 1st to learn about the Underground Railroad history.

View the video, "Underground Railraoad Through South Mountain", and pick up the Underground Railroad Biking/Driving/Hiking tour!

Tour the historic Caledonia Ironworks blacksmith shop, with presentations on Thaddeus Stevens and the Underground Railroad by Wesley Foltz.

Bring family and friends for this great adventure, and be sure to take a

ride in a horse-drawn carriage

to add to your Caledonia State Park experience!