Amish Country Byway
Amish Country Byway is a National Scenic Byway in Ohio. Within Ohio it covers roughly 75 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Amish Country Byway with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
This network of byways winds through Holmes County and the surrounding hills, home to one of the largest Amish and Mennonite communities in the world. Horse-drawn buggies share the rolling roads with traffic, passing tidy farms, cheese houses, furniture makers, and roadside stands. The pastoral, slow-paced countryside is the attraction.
- world's largest Amish settlement
- horse-drawn buggies
- rolling farm country
- cheese & furniture makers
- Holmes County
Designated for its cultural qualities
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Places to stop along Amish Country Byway
Victorian House Museum
Millersburg's grandest Queen Anne mansion, now the Holmes County historical museum, with a glass museum beside it.
WebsiteHolmes County Open Air Art Museum
Sculpture by local and regional artists set along woodland paths on the grounds of the Inn at Honey Run.
Behalt at the Amish and Mennonite Heritage Center
A 265-foot circular mural, painted by one artist over more than a decade, telling the Anabaptist story from the 1500s to today.
WebsiteWalnut Creek
A hilltop village near the site of Holmes County's first Amish settler, now full of bakeries, furniture shops, and a German culture museum.
WebsiteGuggisberg Cheese
The Swiss-family cheese house credited with creating Baby Swiss in the 1960s, where you can watch cheesemaking through a window.
WebsiteKillbuck Valley Natural History Museum
Mastodon bones, arrowheads, and mounted wildlife from the Killbuck Valley, in a small village museum.
Where to Stay along Amish Country Byway
3 campgrounds and RV parks sit within about 5 miles of Amish Country Byway.
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Photos of Amish Country Byway
What is a National Scenic Byway?
National Scenic Byways are roads recognized at the federal level for at least one outstanding quality — scenic, natural, historic, cultural, archaeological or recreational — that gives travelers a reason to seek them out rather than just pass through.