Welcome to the friendly Laurel Echo Family Farm B&B, nestled in the beautiful hills of the Allegheny Mountains, an hour east of Pittsburgh. Many attractions nearby include Laurel Hill State Park (2 miles from the farm), recently named one of the top State Parks in the country for its hiking trails in the cool wooded forest by pristine trout streams.

Laurel Echo Farm puts you close to a wide arrange of activities and attractions from a nearby renovated beach area, canoeing, fishing, and picnic areas as well as Kooser State Park, and famous Seven Springs and Hidden Valley Ski Resorts (8 miles away). These resorts offer swimming, golf, boating, fishing, white water rafting, horseback riding, sleigh rides and hiking and biking trails. Rails to Trails is a popular hiking and biking trail that is part of the "Great Allegheny Passage. The Farm is just 5 miles from the trail head where you can go from Garret to Cornelsville. Your hosts can provide transportation to the trailhead. You can experience great rafting at Ohiopyle State Park just 30 miles away. Nearby Somerset offers outlet mall shopping (Gregorian Place), a craft village (Pine Haven), plus many antique shops.

Laurel Echo Farm is an 1861, renovated two-story farmhouse that is great for family getaways. Accommodates include a spacious guestrooms with queen bed and private bath and two smaller single rooms (1 with 2 twin beds, and 1 with 1 single bed) perfect for children. This air-conditioned family unit has the bedrooms upstairs and downstairs offers a living room, kitchenette and patio. There is also Cable TV/VCR with videos for the kids.

A full home-style breakfast is served in the eat-in "country kitchen." Week-long guests have access to a fully equipped private kitchen and studio and are welcome to relax on the front porch swing or the patio out back. Laurel Echo Farm is "child friendly," offering pony rides upon request, hiking over the farm, and a big yard where the children love to play with the new kittens.

In the evening, wonderful company is offered for the entire family. There is something for just about everyone at Laurel Echo Farm Bed and Breakfast. Come "get away from it all" at this country farm and enjoy a quieter way of life your grandparents knew, and relax on the front porch swing.

"Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." Heb. 13:2

In the vicinity of Laurel Echo you will find Idlewild, the nations oldest family amusement park located in Ligonier and Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural materpieces, Falling Water and Kentuck Knob. The Johnstown Heritage Center and Johnstown Flood Museum can be found in nearby Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

Local festivals include the Mt. Craft Days at the Somerset Historical Center and the Farmer and Threshersmens Jubilee in New Centerville, both in September, followed by the Springs Festival during fall foliage days in early October. This is amid the Amish settlement with homemade quilts for sale and display. In the spring, there is the Meyersdale Maple Festival at "sugarin' off time."