Garden Gate Get-A-Way Bed & Breakfast

Berlin Area

Behalt at the Amish & Mennonite Heritage Center:   Learn about the history of the Mennonites and Amish with this narrated tour of the 265' mural in the round. Video presentation and gift shop.

Heini's Cheese: Free samples for more than 50 cheeses. Fudge, Amish foods, smoked meats, bulk foods and more.  

Wendell August Gift Shop and Forge: Watch the creators of the world's most unique hand-forged aluminum, bronze and pewter giftware at work. Make your own design in their workshop. Indulge yourself in the spectacular gift shop.

Rolling Ridge Ranch: Featuring more than 500 animals and birds from around the world.  Feed the animals from a guided, horse-drawn wagon. Petting zoo.

 Holmes County Flea Market:   This is one of the most popular attractions in Holmes County.  You will find shopping, food, entertainment, and even a lounge for tired travelers to rest while others in your party are shopping!

Charm

Guggisberg Cheese :  Home of the original Baby Swiss. Watch cheese being made.  This cheese factory has won numerous awards for their famous swiss cheese!

Miller's Bakery: #1 pick of the Innkeeper for baked goods. Fresh daily. Homemade breads, pies, noodles, doughnuts, cookies and fry pies.

Miller's Dry Goods: More than 8,000 bolts of fabric, sewing notions, quilts, wall hangings and more. Fabric outlet in basement.

Miller's Quality Crafts: Old Order Amish family making furniture and crafts out of Pine. Great prices and a variety of finishes on items such as pie safes, jelly cupboards, corner shelves, wall hangings, kids furniture and more!

Keim Lumber :  If you are doing any home improvement, remodeling, and building from scratch, you won't believe the wonderful displays and prices!

Dover

Warther's Carvings: See the works of World Master Carver, Mooney Warther in this mesmerizing tour!   Voted #1 area attraction by the Innkeepers.

J. Reeves Victorian House & Museum: Home of Dover's first millionaire. Tour the home & carriage house including a WWII museum.

Walnut Creek

Coblentz Chocolates: A chocolate lovers paradise.  View chocolates being hand-dipped.  Shop from pre-boxed selections or make up your own right in the store!

Walnut Creek Cheese: Village of Shops including bulk foods, cheese, meats, deli, ice cream, fresh baked granola, jams & jellies, kitchen items and gift store. We buy many food items for our B&B breakfasts here.

Yoder's Amish Home & Farm : Tour two homes, 100-acre farm, animal petting area, buggy rides, hayrides and crafts. The next best thing to taking a back roads tour of Amish Country. Seasonal.

Mt. Hope Area

Homestead Furniture: Some of the finest furniture in our area. Select from the showroom or order custom-designed to your specifications.

Ashery Country Store: From bulk foods to ice cream you'll find it all here.

Swartzentruber Quilts: Home business. Hand quilted quilts, wall hangings, pillow covers.  Other items include pot holders, hand braided rugs, aprons, etc.

Mrs. Yoder's Kitchen: Delicious home-style meals and desserts. 

Stone Barn Furnishings More than just a furniture store. Be sure to check out their gift shop and garden items.

Mullet Cabinet  Founded in 1975 they create handcrafted, custom cabinetry and are know for exceptional customer service.   They have a new design center with staff waiting to help you design, pick colors in the Custom Color Lab, and create exactly what you are looking for.

Kidron Area

Lehman's Hardware: Founded in 1955 to serve the Amish and others without electricity. Thousand of old fashioned products: cast iron cookware, hand tools, oil lamps, kitchen gadgets, non-electric appliances, books, wood-burning stoves and more!

P. Graham Dunn: See the beautiful wood wall hangings, pictures and gift items. Some are carved and some have laser imprints. See where the items are made and visit the 2nds room for bargains that you can finish on your own!

Sugarcreek Area

Sugarcreek: Tour Little Switzerland of Ohio.   Unique murals painted on many of the buildings with animated displays. Try Swiss foods and visit the gift shops.

Heini's Gourmet Market:   If you love Heini's Cheese Factory in Berlin, you are going to love the gourmet market even more!  They offer many products made right here in Ohio from wines,  to cheese, to bread, to candy, salsa's, and more!  You can also build your own cheese ball and they will mix it up for you.  They even have a lunch counter for a light lunch or snack.

Breitenbach Wine Cellars: One of Ohio's premier wineries and the 2nd largest in the State. Sample award winning wines!  Noted for Dandelion and Fruit Wines.  Swiss and locally smoked meats.  Annual Wine Festival the first weekend every May.

The Winery at Perennial Vineyards :  Was built in an old dairy barn.  You will find some of the vines that grow grapes as you enter, see farm animals and can even stop and have a pizza or snack in the wine tasting room.

 Broad Run Cheese Factory .  Tour the factory and learn about the cheese making process. They have been in business since 1933 and their specialty is Swiss cheese.  Visit their gift shop and taste some wine while you are there too!

Millersburg Area

Bowdens Bells: Bells, fountains, birdbaths, feeders and other unique garden folk art handcrafted from recycled materials. Original handcrafted jewelry. Nothing like you've ever seen before!

Treaty Line Pottery: Functional and sculptural pottery by Carol Ohl. The stoneware and porcelain pieces are wood-fired in a Japanese-style Noboragama kiln. You're sure to find a treasure to take back home!

Holmes County Pottery: Handmade pottery fired in Ohio's largest wood-burning kiln. Using traditional techniques, they offer a standard line of pots from functional to dinnerware to garden planters.

Victorian House Museum: 28 antique-filled rooms of Victorian splendor in Millersburg. Listed in the National Registry of Historic Sites. Featured on HGTV. Open Sunday. This is Holmes County's 2nd most popular attraction.

L & E Star Candles: Amish candle maker that specializes in carved, star-shaped candles. Watch her make her creations and buy some for gifts. Great prices on star candles, gel candles, poured candles, lighthouse candles and more!

Holmes County Rails to Trails Hiking & Biking Path : Rails to Trails is part of a National program     where old railroad tracks are being converted to hiking, biking, walking and bird watching paths. The Holmes County section is the only one in the USA where you can expect to pass Amish buggies!  Our B&B can provide boarding for horses for guests who wish to bring their horses on the Trail.

Amish Country Byway throughout Holmes County: The National Scenic Byways Program is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. The program is a grass-roots collaborative effort established to help recognize, preserve and enhance selected roads throughout the United States.  Holmes County is proud to say that we host the Amish country Byway.

Holmes County Chamber of Commerce :  Obtain additional information about the area from our Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Burea.  (330) 674-3975.  You can also visit Ohio's Amish Country Magazine.

Wilmot Area

The Wilderness Center :  A must see for nature lovers!  The Wilderness Center is dedicated to nature education, wildlife conservation, natural history research, and community service.  The headquarters tract has grown to encompass 619 acres of forest, meadow, marsh, and restored prairie. In 1967 the Wilderness Lake was constructed to help attract waterfowl and other aquatic life.  There is a nature center, hiking trails, picnic area and it is a great place for bird watchers!  They also host workshops, classes, guided hikes, etc., on specific dates.

Make us a destination

Your innkeepers can create itineraries for you to experience Amish Culture and our area.   It takes at least a week to really experience our area:

Monday  We'll map out a route to visit Amish-owned businesses: a Candle Maker, and Amish General Store, a pine furniture & craft maker, a broom maker & bookstore, a leather belt & purse maker, & a cheese factory (not Amish)

Tuesday  We'll map out a route that includes Amish-owned businesses along with area attractions like:  a general store, a basket maker, Lehman's Hardware, a bulk foods shop, furniture stores and more.

Wednesday  Spend a day exploring culture & history with stops at a couple pottery places (including Ohio's largest wood-fired kiln), a bell maker & creative craft store, the Victorian House Museum and historic Millersburg.

Thursday  Learn more about the Amish & Mennonite culture by touring the 360 degree mural called Behalt, visit an Amish meat shop, an Amish store that is known for their dried flowers, a shop with handmade quilts and more.

Friday  Don't forget the foods of Holmes County!  We can map out a wine & cheese tour, send you to a chocolate factory, cheese factories, trail bologna factory, Amish Wedding Foods store and more!

Saturday  There are many unique and unusual gift shops that you won't find just any where.  We'll send you from town to town so that you can take some souvenirs home. 

Sunday You can't leave without visiting Warther's Carvings.  There are no words to describe it adequately other than you have to go.  Roscoe Village is an old, Erie Canal town with a lot of history and worth a visit.  Pine Tree Barn is an 1800's barn turned gift shop, furniture shop and restaurant.   A Sunday drive on our scenic Byway is another Sunday option.

Got more time?  We still have more maps and itineraries of things to see & do!

Beyond our County...

There are so many attractions within a 1 hour radius of our B&B that you can stay with us and journey out each day in a different direction.  A sample itinerary would be:

Monday:  Check-in and visit the many shops, cheese factories, chocolate factory, Christmas store, and other attractions in Holmes County.

Tuesday:  Visit the Amish-owned businesses such as candle makers, basket makers, furniture builders, leather workers, quilt shops, etc.

Wednesday:  Visit the west side of Holmes County and the cultural businesses such as Bowden Bells, Treaty Line Pottery Homes County Pottery, etc.  Then head over to Mansfield, Ohio, and tour the Mansfield Reformatory .  It looks like a stately castle but was once a reformatory and prison.  Hollywood even got involved by filming movies such as Shawshank Redemption and Air Force One there.  There are a couple of different tours that you can take here.

Thursday:  Head up to the Canton area and visit the Pro Football Hall of Fame.  Afterwards head a few miles north to Akron and visit Stan Hywet Mansion and Gardens .  The mansion was built of F.A. Seiberling who was one of the inventors of Good Year Tires.  His wife was a famous opera singer that had a music hall put in the mansion.  Many famous officials including Presidents have stayed there.  You can tour the mansion, take a behind the scenes tour and or tour the beautiful gardens.

Friday:  Visit Coshocton County and tour Roscoe Village .  This is an old Erie Canal town with historical buildings and tours, a museum, plus gift shops and restaurants.

  Saturday:  Go east of the B&B to Tuscarawas County.  Visit the Swiss village of Sugarcreek and then head over to Dover to visit one of the best museums in the County, Warthers Carvings.  Warthers is home of the World Master Carver, Mooney Warther.  Mr. Warther carved many famous steam locomotives, invented many products on display and became a knife maker.  The knife factory and gift shop are attached to the museum so that you can take home a souvenir!  Hop on I-77 and head north about 10 miles to the village of Zoar .  This village was founded by a group of German separatists looking for religious free.  Wait until you see how they lived!  Tour historical buildings, visit shops and have lunch in the local tavern.  If you still want some more adventure head further north on I-77 and visit the Pro Football Hall of Fame.  

 Other attractions that are a modest drive from our B&B include Malabar Farms , Longaberger Basket Homestead , Cleveland , and Columbus , Ohio.