OUR 2025 TOUR SCHEDULE
We are pleased to announce our 2025 Tour Schedule!
Our popular State Series' continues with a journey through the Wild West on our new tour of The Dakotas, May 28-June 7, 2025 (click here) where we will explore both South and North Dakotas. The North Dakota highlights will include: Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Fort Mandan, and Fort Abraham Lincoln. Highlights in South Dakota will include: Mount Rushmore, the Crazy Horse Memorial, a Jeep Safari in Custer State park, The Mammoth Site, and the Wild West town of Deadwood. We will also stop at Devils Tower in Wyoming.
Next fall, we are offering a new tour to Northern England & Wales, Sept 19-October 1, 2025 (click here) Highlights will include: Windsor Castle, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Snowdonia National Park in Wales, the Lakes District, Hadrian's Wall, York Minster, and the Yorkshire countryside.
On the drawing board for October 2025 is an idea for a New England sampler beginning and ending in Boston that would take us to corners of Connecticut and Rhode Island. Highlights would include: a day excursion to Martha's Vineyard; the mansions of Newport Rhode Island; Sturbridge Village, MA; the Mark Twain House and Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Hartford, CT; Mystic Seaport; the Submarine Museum in Groton; and Lowell National Historic Park. Sound enticing? Click here to see a draft of the program.
In 2024 We thoroughly enjoyed traveling to.....
In May we journeyed to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Highlights included: Two Frank Lloyd Wright homes - Fallingwater and Kentuck Nob; Fort Necessity and Fort Ligonier; an exclusive private visit to a farm adjacent to a remote corner of the Gettysburg Battlefield to tour "Lost Avenu;," Wheatland, the home of James Buchanan; the Flight 93 Memorial; and visits to several Amish Farms with a local expert.
We traveled to New England in July to tour the beautiful Coast of Maine. Highights included a tour of Acadia National Park; a windjammer cruise in Frenchmen's Bay; a cruise of Camden harbor in a lobster boat; tours of the home of Joshua Chamberlain and the First Parrish Church where Harriet Beecher Stowe had her inspiration to write Uncle Tom's Cabin;and FDR's summer home in Campobello.
"The Heart of Italy: from Florence, Rome, and the Hill Towns of Umbria," October 3/4-14, 2024! On this new tour we explored the heart of Italy from Tuscany's Florence and Sienna to Rome and includes four nights at a country estate in Umbria. From our villa retreat, we took daily excursions to the nearby charming hill towns of Assisi, Perugia, and Orvieto. Excursions included ancient Roman sites, remnants of the Etruscan culture, and special visits including a stained glass studio founded in 1850; a wine tasting; and we hunted for truffles! Half of the group went on an optional pre-tour excursion to Venice and an optional post-tour extension in Sorrento where we visited Pompeii and Herculaneum.
If you would like more information, please email us at tours@smountainexpeditions.com.
We hope to see you soon on one of our tours!
Marty Gane South Mountain Expeditions P.O. Box 204, Keedysville, MD 21756 Tel: 301-491-0225 email: tours@smountainexpeditions.com
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"The tour was superb. It was a great learning experience that was also great fun. Your attention to detail, your ability to assemble a cast of experts and your knowledge of the dynamics of touring make South Mountain Expeditions the best." --- Gail Stephens
"Kudos to Marty Gane and South Mountain Expeditions for EVERYTHING that they did to make our trip so outstanding. We have toured with many companies but Marty stands out head and shoulders for the many, many ways that she made the trip not only more informative but also more fun!"
---Ken and Linda O'Bannon
"Traveling with South Mountain Expeditions is like going to a family reuinion except with people you like!" -- Cindy Houpt
