Quilt Gardens in Amish Country of Northern Indiana click on image to view event
| Location:Elkhart IN Begins: May-30-2025 Ends: Sep-15-2025 |
Description: Cool Quilts! Authentic Amish! Group Friendly Tours! Great Destination! Four-month long, free, annual event and an ABA Top 100 event. Nation's first-ever, large-scale, blooming quilt gardens and oversized quilt art murals in 7 Northern Indiana communities including Middlebury, Nappanee, and Shipshewana. 1,000,000 blooms, 18 gardens, 21 murals. Garden patterns change each year. Telling stories of Amish culture, local heritage in living color. Located 120 miles East of Chicago on I-80/90 in the third largest Amish area in the nation. Amish Country offers group friendly experiences including step-on guides, hands-on quilting programs, Amish quilting bees, quilt exhibits, backroads authentic Amish experiences including an Amish camel farm, buggy shop and Amish one-room school, family-style meals at Amish homes, garden seminars, country shopping, Flea Market, historic farm tours, theatre and country inns. All can be blended together for a customized itinerary made exclusively for each tour operator.
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Amish Country of Northern Indiana/ Elkhart County
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| Contact: JANIS LOGSDON
Email: groupinfo@eccvb.org
Phone: 574-262-8161
Toll Free: 800-262-8181
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| Event: AMISH ACRES ARTS & CRAFTS FESTIVAL
Month: AUGUST
City: NAPPANEE
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Begins: Aug-01-2025 Ends: Aug-03-2025Description: An ABA Top 100 Event! Located in Amish Country of Northern Indiana, 120 miles East of Chicago off of I-80/90. On the Quilt Gardens Tour and one of the Midwest's Top Stops for groups at Amish Acres, a heritage resort in Nappanee! Four day, annual event. More than 300 juried artists and crafters from around the nation to display and sell their wares around the pond on an historic Amish farmstead listed on the National Register. Festivities include farm wagon rides, 4 stages of continuous free entertainment and special festival foods. Group packages offered including guided Amish house & farm tours, Broadway musicals, family-style Amish meals, overnight lodging in country inns, with festival admission. Destination wide customized itinerary planning is available and FAM Tours offered. Specialty tours include: Girls Getaways, intergenerational, agriculture, quilting and gardening themes. Backroads step-on guides with hands-on, interactive group experiences provided.
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| Event: ELKHART, IN JAZZ FESTIVAL
Month: JUNE
City: ELKHART
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Begins: Jun-20-2025 Ends: Jun-22-2025Description: Celebrate Hot Jazz in Northern Indiana with Cool Group experiences for a great itinerary! Enjoy "Groovin in the Gardens" at Wellfield Botanic Garden on Thursday night, then have fun at the Ruthmere Jazz Speakeasy event on Friday before partaking of the excellent sights and sounds in downtown Elkhart. Annual 3-day event offers live performances by some of the nation's top Jazz artists in multiple venues! Group single session or event passes are reasonably negotiated in advance. Free stage with rotating musicians is also available on Main Street and Festival food and atmosphere abound! Located 120 miles East of Chicago on I-80/90 in Amish Country of Northern Indiana, in downtown Elkhart, home of Quilt Gardens and Amish Country of Northern Indiana with destination wide customized itinerary planning available and FAM Tours offered.