Looking for bargains? Try the more than 150 outlet stores featuring the names of the nation's top designers. Want antiques? Lancaster County's home to more than 3,000 antiques dealers. Looking for unique art pieces? Explore downtown Lancaster's Gallery Row for work from local artists. In search of traditional Pennsylvania Dutch crafts? Travel the back roads of the countryside to find Amish and Mennonite-owned craft shops featuring everything from wooden mailboxes to one-of-a-kind quilts. Clothes, jewelry, housewares or anything else a shopper could want can be found at the many malls, stores and boutiques in Pennsylvania Dutch Country. 

Bargain hunters looking for top quality at bargain prices need look no further than Lancaster County, where several outlet malls offer more than 150 top names. Shop more than 100 factory direct stores including Carter's, Gap, Jones New York, SONY and more at the Rockvale Outlets just off of Route 30. Just down the road, the Tanger Outlet Center is perfect for some retail therapy, from designer Coach handbags, fashionable outfits from Banana Republic, Brooks Brothers, Kenneth Cole and more. With no sales tax on clothing or food in Pennsylvania, the bargains are even better!

If the hunt is for treasures of years past rather than designers of today, shoppers will find their paradise at the many antiques stores of Pennsylvania Dutch Country. More than 3,000 antiques dealers line the streets of Adamstown, where antiques shoppers could spend days browsing through stand after stand for that one perfect piece. Similarly, if shoppers seek something that's just a little different, the eclectic shops and funky boutiques in downtown Lancaster feature everything from local artists' creations to one-of-a-kind jewelry and handbags.

The flavor of the community comes alive along rural country roads as shoppers can find the very best Amish and Mennonite-made goods. Follow handwritten signs down quiet country lanes to discover clotheslines full of breathtaking handmade quilts, or slip into unassuming barns or country shops to find quaint country crafts and toys or lovingly made Amish furniture sure to become a family heirloom. For those seeking edible shopping, there are plenty of opportunities as well with visits to farmers' markets, canneries and simple roadside stands.

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