Winter is a fun time to plan a vacation, especially if you’re heading out from Hatfield, Pennsylvania. With its convenient location, Hatfield provides easy access to a number of resorts and communities that offer exciting winter vacation opportunities. Here are some winter vacation ideas around Pennsylvania.
The Amish Community of Lancaster
Located an hour and a half southwest of Hatfield, Lancaster is a bustling town where the Amish drive buggies on the shoulders of car-filled roads. Offering farm-to-table restaurants, horse-and-buggy tours, and outlet shopping, you won’t have trouble filling your time during a visit to Lancaster. The area has more than 25 covered bridges, which make for lovely scenery in winter.
Seven Springs Mountain Resort
With a variety of overnight accommodations available, Seven Springs Mountain Resort promises a fun winter vacation. Whether you want to tear up the slopes on your skis or explore Frank Lloyd Weber’s Duncan House, you have plenty of options when you book a stay at Seven Springs. Because this resort is a four-hour drive from Hatfield, it’s best to plan to spend one or two nights when you visit.
Ski Sawmill Family Resort
Pack up the kids and make the three-hour drive to Morris, home of the Ski Sawmill Family Resort. With a 70-foot drop for snow tubing and 12 ski slopes, Ski Sawmill provides plenty of thrills for adventure seekers. Skiers especially appreciate the resort’s 515-foot vertical drop on the ski slopes.
From shopping to skiing, there are plenty of winter vacation spots around Pennsylvania. Many of them are within a few hours’ drive of Hatfield.
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