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OUR 2025 TOUR SCHEDULE

 

We are pleased to announce three of exciting tours for 2025.  If you would like to join us, we encourage you to let us know immediately!

 

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).. 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 two UK tours back-to-back! A tour to Northern England & Wales, September 19-October 1, 2025 (click here) and a repeat of our popular 2022 "Historic Highlights of Southern England" trip, October 1/2-13, 2025 (click here). We have posted the itineraries and will have post prices in the coming weeks.

 

 

OUR AUTUMN 2024 TOUR -**SPACE MAY BE AVAILABLE

 

"The Heart of Italy: from Florence, Rome, and the Hill Towns of Umbria," October 3/4-14, 2024!  This new tour will explore the heart of Italy from Tuscany's Florence and Sienna to Rome and includes four nights at a country estate in Umbria. Dubbed the "green heart of Italy," Umbria's idyllic countryside is a mosaic of rolling farm fields and vineyards enveloped by mountains and dotted with traditional villages and fortified hill towns. From our villa retreat, we will take daily excursions to the nearby charming hill towns of Assisi, Perugia, and Orvieto. Excursions will include ancient Roman sites, remnants of the Etruscan culture, and special visits including a stained glass studio founded in 1850; a vineyard for a wine tasting; and we'll go on a hunt for truffles! We are offering an optional for a pre-tour excursion to Venice and an optional post-tour extension in Sorrento for those who wish to visit Pompeii and Herculaneum. We hope you can join us next fall for this enchanting trip. We have sold all 17 rooms at our hotel in Rome. If you would like to join us on our Italy tour, you need to let us know ASAP! We may be able to secure an additional room for you.

 

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.

 

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

 

   
 

"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