Non-club sponsored invitational ride.

Click below for website:

Amishland and Lakes

Several SW have done this ride in the past and it is a great time. Most riders arrive on Friday. There is a 36 mile round trip ride on the PumpkinVine Trail http://pumpkinvine.org that is fun to ride (mostly flat). This is a YOYO ride that you can ride as many miles as you want with some ice cream stops on the way. This is an independent ride and not part of the Official Amishland ride. Here is the RWGPS route for

the Pumpkinvine trail.

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/43820130

On Saturday the Amish folk go out of their way to provide interesting items to eat on various routes.

In the past many SW stayed at hotels off the I90 freeway but this year we were able to secure a block of

rooms at the Van Buren Hotel in Shipshewana. About a stones throw to the Pumpkin vine bike trail and

about the same distance (~10 miles) to the start as the I90 hotels.

There are many eateries and places to see in Shipshewana (This Amish town closes down on Sunday – so make your sightseeing on Friday and Saturday)

There is camping at the ride headquarters, and the website provides camping info.

This is the information we have on the block rooms for the Van Buren Hotel. Right now, we need an estimated count of who is interested so we can set up the contract for the group rate. The hotel has a 21-day cutoff prior to arrival, at which time any rooms not picked up would be released back to the public. If you are planning on doing the ride but have made other accommodations let us know that as well.

  5–9 rooms would qualify as a small group, receiving 15% off our base rate. That rate would be $156.40 per night plus tax at double occupancy 

  Anything below 5 rooms would revert to the standard base rate.

  Room configurations:

Our two-queen standard rooms can accommodate up to four adults. An additional $5 per night

applies for the third guest and $5 per night for the fourth guest.

Below is the hotel link to the brochure.

Shipshewana Hotel | Van Buren Hotel at Shipshewana | Amish Country

If you have any questions or possibly plan to ride the tour let us know by February 5 and we’ll make a roster of attendees.

Peggy Doheny pdoheny@kent.edu

Susan Schneider jns1146@hotmail.com

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