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Explore the Amish Countryside of Western Pennsylvania

Drive the backroads with your own personal tour guide as you discover the Amish Community and learn about the Amish culture.

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Simple Life Amish Tours

Private or Group Guided Tours through the Amish Countryside of Pittsburgh in North Western Pennsylvania

Are you interested in discovering a world where peace and tranquility still exist? Book your Simple Life Amish Tour and you will be transported to the Amish Countryside.  NOW MORE THAN EVER IS A GOOD TIME TO VISIT A WORLD THAT HAS DIFFERENT VALUES, A  SIMPLER STYLE OF LIFE,  AND IS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL! 

Please call 724-923-9730 IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO A SIMPLE LIFE REPRESENTATIVE.

 There will be as many stops as we can fit in, on our Simple Life tour. First stop may be an Amish produce and bakery stand. Meet Andy  and his family and tempt your taste buds with their delicious wares! The Amish are FAMOUS for their BAKED GOODS! YUM!!! The next stop is an Amish Grocery store, where you will meet the Byler Family. Located in the basement of the Byler’s home, this grocery store is lit with a gas lamp. Purchase old fashioned sodas kept cold in an  the Byler’s “Ice box” and wait until you see the antique adding machine! You will be able to purchase local honey, fresh tapped Maple Syrup, Homemade noodles, cheeses a variety of Amish jams and jellies and homemade candy.  Our third stop is Cornerstone Furniture where you will get to see  how and Amish furniture shop works with no electricity! Watch the Amish men build furniture and meet Rudy, who will show you his hand built tables and chairs.  Our fourth stop is an Amish Quilt shop. Meet Sam and Lizzie Byler who own New Wilmington’s only Amish Quilt Shop filled with beautiful Amish handmade quilts, rocking chairs, and many other Amish made items from our local Old World Order Amish community. 

Children can pet and feed the horses, puppies and kittens! So much to do and see on this tour!

Rates: $100 total for up to two guests

$25.00 each additional guest

$12.50 children ten and under.

Please call for special pricing for larger groups

What to Expect

Each tour begins in the heart of Amish Country of New Wilmington, Pa located just 60 miles North of Pittsburgh, 15 minutes from the Grove City Outlets and Just five minutes from the town of Volant, Pa. We meet at an Amish Store called Byler’s Quilts and Crafts located at 435 Quilt Shop Lane, Volant, Pa 16156 There you will meet Susan, your personal tour guide. Step into Susan’s vehicle and let her lead you through  a backroads tour of our Amish villages. You will be transported into another world as we explore the Amish Countryside.  This is a private, non commercialized scenic back roads tour that takes you off the beaten path.  Susan  will teach you about the Amish lifestyle as we drive past horse and buggies, homes,  dairy farms and even an Amish schoolhouse.  You never know what you will see along these backroads! Visit Amish farms, greenhouses, an Amish bakery, grocery store and many other litle stops along the way. Watch Amish men build furniture and plow their fields with horse and plow! 

You will be amazed at the knowledge, friendliness and warmth of this tour and tour guides. You will be able to meet and speak with our Amish friends and discover the beauty of the Amish culture and lifestyle. 

Tours are approximately 2 hours long. Each tour is a non-commercialized private tour made by appointment. You can book online or call us. (724-923-9730)

This tour is perfect for individuals, families, couples and even groups.

Rates: $100.00 total for up to two guests

Children 10 and under $12.50 each

For Larger Groups:  Try the TASTE AND TOUR AMISH COUNTRY TOUR. Let Susan come as a step on tour guide, or lead your group on a two hour tour plus an Amish themed meal at a local restaurant. (Groups of 10 or more)

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We do Field trips, Bus groups, Church groups, women's groups, Book clubs etc..

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Each tour begins in the heart of Amish Country of New Wilmington, Pa located just 60 miles North of Pittsburgh, 15 minutes from the Grove City Outlets and just 5 minutes from Volant. You'll meet in the parking lot of the historic Tavern on the Square Restaurant. There you will meet your personal tour guide who will lead you through the back-roads of our Amish villages.

You will be transported into another world as we explore the Amish Countryside.  This is a private, non commercialized scenic back roads tour that takes you off the beaten path.  You will learn about the Amish lifestyle as you drive past horse and buggies, homes,  dairy farms and even an Amish schoolhouse.  Visit Amish farms, greenhouses, an Amish bakery, grocery store. Watch Amish men build furniture and plow their fields with horse and plow!   You will be amazed at the knowledge, friendliness and warmth of this tour and tour guides.

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3459 State Route 956 New Wilmington, PA 16142 Phone: 724-923-9730 Region: Pittsburgh & Its Countryside

Visit Amish Country in Western Pennsylvania! New Wilmington, Pa is home to the third largest Old World Amish population in the United States. Book a tour with Simple Life Amish Tours and experience the Amish culture up close with an experienced tour guide. We will visit authentic Amish homes, farms and businesses. Our tours take you off the beaten path to find the secrets of the Amish lifestyle. Children and Adults will enjoy stopping at an Amish Farm , stop at Amish bake stand for some fresh Amish donuts and visit an Amish variety store where they sell Amish clothes, Bibles, toys and much more. Just 60 miles north of Pittsburgh and five miles from the Grove City Outlets.

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NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. — Lawrence County and Lancaster County are on opposite sides of Pennsylvania.

Their respective Amish communities are even further apart in their adherence to the old ways.

The Lawrence County Amish community, centered around New Wilmington, Pa., is among the strictest in the nation when it comes to maintaining the simple life. Its members are friendly but they do not embrace tourism as they do in Lancaster County. They also make very few exceptions to their prohibition of modern technology.

Their uncompromised ways make the Lawrence County Amish among the most fascinating of the sect in North America.

For Susan Hougelman, it’s a big reason why her business, Simple Life Tours , has become so successful in such a short period of time.

Hougelman started Simple Life in 2014 as a part-time endeavor, occasionally shuttling visitors around the back roads outside New Wilmington. Her business grew rapidly. In 2019, she took 2,000 people on tours of the Lawrence County Amish. 

“It became a full-time business last year,” she says. “Even more than full-time.”

She has two vehicles – a 15-seat mini-bus and an SUV – to accommodate tours of all sizes. As testament to the enduring fascination with the Amish, Hougelman says her clients have come from 150 countries and all 50 states.

“We’ve had every kind of nationality and every single one, old or young, Muslim or Christian, all have respect for the Amish,” Hougelman says. “They fall in love with their lifestyle. Some end up crying because they are so touched. The Amish live such a godly lifestyle, clean and earthly and beautiful.”

The tour, she says, brings people together. Hougelman recalls a couple from the Netherlands who took the tour three years ago. “He was profoundly touched,” she says, adding she continues to receive letters from him.

The Lawrence County Amish community’s isolation and separatism protects it from modern ways.

“This area is untapped and not touristy. So we get to see the real Amish life from right outside their homes,” Hougelman says. “I tell people that Lancaster is a whole different kind of Amish. They have restaurants and businesses [for the public]. The Amish [in Lawrence County] are not allowed to even own a restaurant or work in one. You get the real thing here.”

The 2,200-member Lawrence County Amish community is the second-strictest in the United States, she says, behind only the Schwartzentruber Amish in Holmes County, Ohio. They do not use electricity; fuel-burning lamps are used for light. They also do not have bathroom plumbing, using outhouses that are attached to their homes in most cases.

Hougelman and her husband, Joe, owned the landmark Tavern on the Square restaurant in New Wilmington until she sold it two years ago. The restaurant is a popular stop for tourists who used to ask her daily where they could find the Amish.

“I lived here all my life and had never talked to the Amish, but customers would ask about them every day,” she says. “I would tell them to just drive around. But I saw a need that needed to be filled. One day I said, ‘Get in my car and I will take you around.’ ”

That was the unofficial beginning of her tourism business. Hougelman studied up on the Amish and began to make contacts.

“I have a friend who sells grass-fed beef and she had a lot of Amish clients,” she says. “She took me around to meet all the Amish businesses, which I never knew existed, and they were so nice.”

She put a script together and has selected a few Amish businesses for stops on her tours. Her guests browse the small shops and get a personal interaction.

“I stop at Amish grocery stores, a quilt shop, a furniture maker,” she says.

“I tell [my tour clients], ‘You could go to Lancaster or Holmes County to buy Amish furniture but most of it was made here in Lawrence County,” she says. “I bring people to watch them making it and they can buy it there at a wholesale price.”

Hougelman said the Lawrence County Amish don’t realize how different their lives are from the average American’s. They are industrious but have little contact with the outside world.

Guests from abroad who want to see the Amish usually find Hougelman’s Simple Life Tours on the internet and book tours six to nine months in advance.

“They come here and go to New York and Boston and Niagara Falls. We are in the middle of that,” she says. “They want the untapped place, not the touristy place.”

Simple Life Tours also gets a lot of clients from tour bus daytrips, lifelong learning programs, high schools and colleges, and anyone who wants to learn about Amish culture.

The outgoing Hougelman says Simple Life is the only Amish tour company in western Pennsylvania. As a tour guide, she shares a wealth of information that goes beyond history and data. 

Hougelman has an obvious relationship with the Amish families and their children and knows them by name. She can briefly converse with them in Pennsylvania Dutch, the hybrid German-English language that only they speak.

On a tour in early June, Jan Hvizdos of Murrysville, Pa., and her friend, Beverly Maloberti of Greensburg, Pa., rode in Hougelman’s SUV for a couple of hours down the narrow byways of picturesque Lawrence County. The two friends have a long appreciation for the Amish and have visited communities in Lancaster County and Florida.

Hvizdos was pleased with the tour. “I saw an ad for it on Facebook and thought that it sounded like it’s grass-roots ,” she says. 

“You visit farms and go to their stores. And it’s one on one. You can read every book in the world about the Amish but you won’t get the hands-on approach that this tour has.”

Maloberti echoed those sentiments. “Jan and I love the Amish lifestyle and [Hougelman] has shown us different aspects of their lives, like making furniture.”

After seeing firsthand the peaceful, reverent and slow-paced lifestyle of the Amish, Hvizdos repeated a phrase that Hougelman had spoken earlier: “They are in this world, but not of this world.”

One of the stops on The Simple Life tour is a shop where three Amish men were making beautiful rocking chairs by hand. 

Just down the country lane is Byler’s Grocery Store, on the ground level of a large Amish family farmhouse. One of the children working there, a boy of about 13, proudly showed visitors his collection of coins visitors from around the world had given him.

One omnipresent sign of the outside world noticeably absent in Amish country are facemasks to thwart the spread of coronavirus. Nobody wears one, because the disease has not touched the isolated Amish community.

The government-ordered shutdown did force Hougelman to close her business in March. She was permitted to resume this month and the reservations are now starting to come in.

“Normally I would have given over 200 tours by this time,” she says. “I’ve had three so far. But they are definitely starting to come back. I’m hoping by fall it will be busy again.”

Pictured at top: A buggy stands outside Byler’s Grocery Store that’s inside a family’s farmhouse. 

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On the dark side of life on tour was Bob MacIntyre. Still relatively fresh from a European Ryder Cup debut and gaining his PGA Tour card through his stellar play on the DP World Tour in 2023, the Scot has found life in the New World to be so very different and a lot more stressful. In 12 PGA Tour starts this season, the 27-year-old from the remote Highland town of Oban has missed six cuts and recorded only two top-10s, one of those alongside Thomas Detry in the recent Zurich Classic of New Orleans. The big issue seems to have been chipping and putting on grasses he has only rarely seen before.

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Still, for all that his current mental game contrasts almost completely with that of MacIntyre, Kim was understanding of his fellow pro’s present predicament.

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'The Simple Life': Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie may be returning to reality TV

Things may not be as simple as they used to be, but Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton may be ready to take another swing at reality TV.

Seventeen years after "The Simple Life," Richie and Hilton's iconic 2000s reality TV show, the two friends announced their return to a TV screen near you in a nostalgic teaser video on Instagram .

"New Era. Same Besties. 👯‍♀️ Coming soon to Peacock," Hilton captioned the video, in a post collaboration with the streamer. In it, Richie and Hilton can be heard singing their memorable " sanasa " bit.

On Wednesday, Richie posted a collage of photos of the long-time friends, from their childhood, teen years and young adulthood.

"From Day 1: Sill and Bill" Richie captioned the post. "Sanasaaaa 💖💖💖" Hilton commented.

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"The Simple Life" ran for five seasons from 2003 to 2007 on Fox and later E! network. The series followed the childhood friends and socialites as they ventured to rural America and worked odd jobs, including as waitresses and farmers.

Though the pair have had public falling outs, they've remained close in recent years. Their lives have also changed significantly, as both are now married with children. Hilton is married to venture capitalist Carter Reum and the pair share two young children: London and Phoenix . Richie is married to Good Charlotte frontman Joel Madden, and they share two children: Sparrow and Harlow .

In November, Hilton told Andy Cohen on " Watch What Happens Live " that she and Richie had "surprises in store" in regards to the 20th anniversary of the show's premiere.

The duo have remained active in reality TV. Richie most recently starred in the Quibi reality series "Nikki Fre$h" in 2020 and Amazon Prime Video's "Making the Cut" from 2020 to 2022. Hilton hosted the short-lived Netflix cooking reality show "Cooking with Paris" in 2021 and has starred in "Paris in Love" on Peacock since 2021.

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Paris hilton & nicole richie reuniting for new reality tv show, paris hilton & nicole richie teaming up again for a new show ... already greenlit.

Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are getting ready to be reality TV stars all over again -- 'cause the 2000s darlings are teaming up anew to run it back ... but for a whole new project.

Production sources tell TMZ ... Paris and Nicole are both on board for a new series that they'll both star in, but we're told this ain't gonna be an exact duplicate of "The Simple Life," per se -- their famous show from back in the day that pretty much put them on the map.

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Instead ... our sources tell us this is going to be something with a brand new name -- and while we don't have a sense of the premise just yet ... you can bet it'll be hilarious.

We're being told the project has been talked about among themselves for months -- with Paris and Nicole kicking around ideas on how to do something together again on the small screen. Now, it sounds like they've got their big idea, and they've already sold it to a streamer.

Our sources say it's still very early in development -- and that nothing's been shot yet -- but we know PH and NR are both set to star and be the face of whatever this is.

We're also told there was LOTS of interest from production companies/distributors -- and our sources say an all-out bidding war ensued. We don't where exactly it landed, but our sources do say that James Corden 's production company, Fulwell 73, nabbed the rights to shoot it.

Even though this might not be a pure continuation of 'Simple Life' -- ya gotta imagine fans of the original show are rejoicing ... as 'TSL' is still one of the most beloved reality series of all time.

Funny enough, you could argue their fan base might've seen this news coming ... as both PN and NR seemingly telegraphed Wednesday something was in the works, as they both posted the same collage full of throwback photos of themselves.

They were definitely leaning into nostalgia with their respective posts ... and they got their followers buzzing with excitement. Now, those same people are probably over the moon.

The first "The Simple Life" ran from 2003-2007 for a total of 5 seasons, and got aired between FOX and E! For this new show, we're told an official announcement is forthcoming.

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