Travel tips for your trip to York.

[Paul Danik]

Greetings,

   Being as a number of folks have mentioned how they are making the trip to York for the first time, possibly a few tips learned over the years might help to make your York experience even more enjoyable. I know some of you are retired so maybe the extra time for some of these suggestions will not be an issue.

  Breakfast, The Lyndon Diner is just a mile or so from the York Fairgrounds and is a nice clean place to eat that serves up some pretty good chow. I think they open at 5:30 am on Sunday morning. A link to their website is below, they have two locations, the one near the Swapmeet is the York location.

https://www.lyndondiner.com/locations/

   Lunch or dinner just off the PA Turnpike not far from the Bedford exit at the Jean Bonnet Tavern.  The Jean Bonnet Tavern is an old stage coach stop that today is a wonderful place to have a very good meal in a historic building that is well worth the visit. If the table next to the gigantic stone fireplace is available, be sure to request it. A visit to the gift shop building next door is a must.
 
https://www.jeanbonnettavern.com/

   Route 30 is also known as the Lincoln Highway and there is a group dedicated to keeping the history of the Lincoln Highway alive and their Museum and refurbished diner are well worth a visit if you have the time, it is located near Latrobe, PA. Last year John, Jack and I stopped for a visit on our way to York and they really enjoyed the stop. The diner wasn't open for pie and coffee then, but John figured that he surely had eaten there "back in the day" when the diner was at its original location.
   
   A reporter from the local paper was at the Museum when we arrived and John ended up on the front page of both local papers. It was very nice of the Museum folks to arrange for the coverage, possibly the articles are on display at the Museum, they loved meeting John and we presented them with a John Penton book and movie.

   When we left the Lincoln Highway Museum last year we drove the Lincoln Highway, route 30, all the way to York. It is a wonderful drive if you have the time and if the weather cooperates. There are mountains to cross and numerous bendy roads, so be forewarned.....  If the weather is bad come back when it is better, it is worth the trip.


 A number of years ago I was asked to do a presentation at the Lincoln Highway Museum on traveling to Italy in 1974 and riding the Six-Days, that is how Judy and I discovered this gem and the wonderful folks who operate it. It was quite an experience , pushing my Six-Day Penton thru their front door and down the hall to the meeting room as the building was initially an historic home.


http://www.lhhc.org/

The Flight 93 Memorial is along the Lincoln Highway as well. It is the location of where the hijacked Flight 93 went down on 9/11. Not sure if it is open during the Government shutdown, but wanted to mention it. John, Jack and I visited it last year as well on the way to York.

https://www.nps.gov/flni/index.htm

Paul

[marsattacks]

Good stuff there Paul!  In addition there is Fort Ligonier — it is a restored British fort built during the French and Indian War as part of the supply and defense chain from Philadelphia to what is now Pittsburgh (then Fort Duquesne then Fort Pitt).  You can still see a good bit from the periphery of the fort and the town is nice.

If you take Route 30 like Paul has then there is also the Pie Shoppe in Laughlintown where they have great cookies, donuts and (of course) Pie.  Pretty hard to spend $10 even if you love baked goods.

Jean Bonet is great and if you are not doing the driving they have a very nice beer list too!

[marsattacks]

quote:Originally posted by marsattacks

Good stuff there Paul!  In addition there is Fort Ligonier — it is a restored British fort built during the French and Indian War as part of the supply and defense chain from Philadelphia to what is now Pittsburgh (then Fort Duquesne then Fort Pitt).  You can still see a good bit from the periphery of the fort and the town is nice.

If you take Route 30 like Paul has then there is also the Pie Shoppe in Laughlintown where they have great cookies, donuts and (of course) Pie.  Pretty hard to spend $10 even if you love baked goods.

Jean Bonet is great and if you are not doing the driving they have a very nice beer list too!