The Allegheny National Forest Visitor’s Bureau, will host a “Backyard Tour” on May 12.
Tourists, residents, business owners and staff, are invited to attend. This is a chance to tour McKean County as a visitor via deluxe motorcoach.
The tour group participants will meet at 8:30 a.m. May 12, at the Allegheny National Forest Visitors Bureau Welcome Center located at 80 E. Corydon St. in Bradford. Guests will travel a fun and informational itinerary via motorcoach throughout the county, returning to the Welcome Center at 5 p.m.
The tour will include the new Marilyn Horne Museum & Exhibit Center, Olde Schoolhouse Village Shoppes, the Eldred WWII Museum, the Old Jail Museum in Smethport, the Kinzua Sky Walk and the new Kinzua Bridge Visitors Center in Mount Jewett. A wine tasting will be included at Flickerwood Wine Cellars, followed by a tour of C.J. Spirits — a craft distillery in Kane.
A buffet lunch at Chico’s Café & Bakery in Smethport, which is located within the beautifully remodeled America’s First Christmas Store, will showcase a few elements
of their “Victorian Teas” offered for tours and groups. On the return journey from Kane, tour participants will travel the Longhouse Scenic Drive and learn about the forest from an Allegheny National Forest employee. A special treat from The Sweet Shoppe will be served.
The tour fee, including lunch, wine tasting, and snacks is only $30 per person for members of the ANF Visitors Bureau, and $35 for non-members. Door prizes will be given away during the tour to participants.
For additional information, and to register for this year’s McKean County Backyard Tour, please contact the ANF Visitors Bureau at 800-473-9370 or info@visitANF.com.
