Day Trips from the Brandywine Valley

Sightseeing & Daytrips

Take in the local sights and attractions…there are plenty to keep you entertained and amused. And you’ll find more charming, intriguing and historic diversions within two hours from the Brandywine Valley. We’ll be adding day trip coverage as time passes. If you have a suggestion or a link send it along, or better yet a story about a great diversion within a day’s drive from us. We invite you to email us at [email protected]

Center city Philadelphia is just 25 minutes or so away and Baltimore, Washington D. C. and New York City are all about two hours by car. But closer to the Valley is Lancaster and Amish country, the Reading outlets, the Delaware beaches and the Jersey shore including Atlantic City if you have an itch for the casino scene. All are day trip destinations, within easy reach from the Valley as are a wide variety of memorable experiences and worthwhile diversions.

We will be adding to our Day Trip links every once in a while in keeping with our country casual update schedule.If you have a day trip experience you would like to share with TheBrandywine.com readers, we invite you to email us at [email protected].

We invite you to check back often. No matter your particular passion or pastime, there will be something for everyone. And if you have discovered something close-by that you would like to share, click here and let us know.

Sightseeing

Barns-Brinton House, Chadds Ford
Booth’s Corner Farmers Market
Brinton 1704 House, Dilworthtown
Brandywine River Museum
Brandywine Battlefield
Christian Sanderson Museum
Delaware Art Museum
Delaware Natural History Museum
Fort Mifflin on the Delaware
Hagley Museum & Gardens
Historic New Castle, DE
John Chads House, Chadds Ford
Longwood Gardens
Nemours Mansion & Gardens
Newlin Grist Mill, Glen Mills
QVC Studios, West Chester
Rockwood Museum
Rodin Museum, Philadelphia
South Street, Philadelphia
Winterthur

Daytrips

Annapolis Sailing Weekend
Atlantic City, NJ
Baltimore, MD
Chesapeake City, MD
Gettysburg, PA
Gettysburg Visitors Center
Hershey, PA
Philadelphia Museums
Pennsylvania Dutch Country