Tours: 2026

Weekend of Shenandoah Valley Touring: Friday, September 25, 2026 through Sunday, September 27, 2026

We have booked reservations at Shrine Mont, a place of inspiring beauty and serenity, where the tour will begin with dinner at 5:30 PM on Friday, September 25th.

The reservations at the retreat include Friday and Saturday lodging, and six meals from Friday dinner through Sunday lunch, with the lunches being bag lunches to eat while on tour. The lodging at Shrine Mont will be two adjacent cabins – Williamsburg and Alexandria; each family will have a private bathroom.

The planned tour routes:

Saturday – a tour loop – about 72 miles – to the south to the Quilt Museum in Dayton, VA; Plains County Historic Museum in Timberville, VA; and a local ice cream stand in Bayse, VA. Our picnic lunch will be at the pavilion of the Greenmount Church of the Brethren.
Sunday – A slightly longer tour looping to the north, with a lunch stop at the picnic pavilion at the Woodbine Country Market, Strasburg, VA, a tour of the mansion at the Belle Grove Plantation near Middletown, VA, and a close-out ice-cream stop back in Bayse.

The comradery and restful rejuvenation of this tour will be exceptional. No TVs, spotty internet access; once the Ts are attended, pull up a rocking chair on a front porch and swap Model T stories. The back-country roads of the tour routes will offer breathtaking vistas, handsome countryside, and rambling roadways leading to beautiful settings.

We must set a final participation count with Shrine Mont by July 25th. Therefore, registrations for the tour must be made by July 25, 2026. Any member of the Model T Ford Club International may register or seek more information by contacting Tour Director Ford Chinworth, at

chinworth.fe@verizon.net

571-329-2107

Download the registration form

Club Tour and Picnic in Maryland: August 1, 2026

Our club tour in Maryland will center to our north – in rural Washington County, Maryland.

We are pleased to share this tour with the Blue and Gray Model T Ford Club.

We will assemble at a private museum near Hagerstown, MD just off I-70, a 1-hour drive from the American Legion Memorial Bridge.

That assembly point will double as an ideal first stop on the tour, since it features a jaw-dropping collection of beautifully maintained tractors, model autos and trains, and an impressive array of historic artifacts.

Leaving the museum, we will head north over pleasant country roads making a leisurely circuit (not one traffic signal on the tour!) to Washington County’s Rural Heritage Museum in Boonsboro, Maryland.

First, we will settle in at the museum’s new picnic pavilion for our 2026 club picnic.

Finishing lunch, you will be free to roam the grounds of the multi-facility museum of rural heritage. We will also have a docent-led tour of the Transportation museum to learn the fascinating history of the Moller pipe organ company, who’s founder combined with (and later bought out) a local bicycle manufacture, Robert Crawford, to manufacture autos – Crawfords and Dagmars – from 1902 to 1927.

Our tour circuit back to our starting point includes traveling through the serene, evocative Antietam Battlefield National Park as well as an ice cream stop at a locally-owned parlor in Sharpsburg, MD.

Tours: 2026

Weekend of Shenandoah Valley Touring: Friday, September 25, 2026 through Sunday, September 27, 2026

Club Tour and Picnic in Maryland: August 1, 2026

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