Now here's a thing you really should not deprive yourself of... If you don't have a bucket list, start one and put this on it... you will die a restless spirit if you go without having been to the Green Dragon.
Green Dragon Market
955 North State Street
Ephrata, PA 17522
Telephone (717) 738-1117
If you have the good fortune to be from WESTERN Pennsylvania, you may have had the pleasure of experiencing Pechins in Dunbar, Fayette County when it was across the falling down bridge off Rt. 119 and around the back of that cut before they moved out to their much cleaner, tidier and altogether less satisfactory digs at the Laurel Mall in 2005.
If you have any idea what a Pechins was, you will not need nearly so much convincing to take off work and get your self up out of bed early enough to hit the Green Dragon as it is opening up at 9 AM...
And if you have ever found yourself at the hallucination that is the Sunrise Swap Shop, Circus and 14 Screen Drive-in Theatre just north of Ft. Lauderdale... you think I'm kidding about this? On the BEST drugs I couldn't make that place up... the Green Dragon is like an Amish Sunrise Swap Shop without the abused elephants or the 14 movie screens... I know, I know, who wouldn't want to see THAT but we're talking about STAYcations now... stay with me here...
There's a big out of control flea market on E. Baseline on the way to Apache Junction east of Phoenix off the 60, come to think of it, but I digress...
The Green Dragon is ONLY open on Friday. How do they manage to pay the rent on one day's sales? VOLUME!!!!
Now, don't go expecting the greatest deals in the world necessarily although there are some to be had... the attraction here is the sheer amount of stuff they have managed to cram into 10 acres of sectioned off stalls in 7 enormous buildings. Bring cash. And wear sneakers.
Directions from Mooville:
The scenic route is 45 miles and about an hour and 20 minutes from center city (and I use the word loosely) Harrisburg, PA. Find Rt. 322E and stay with it no matter what until about 40 miles out of town you hit the square of Ephrata and turn L on to PA-272/N Reading Rd. Go about 1.5 miles and make that R at Garden Spot Rd. If you get to Wabash Rd., stop and turn around as you'll have missed it. Less than a mile on Garden Spot later take the R onto North State St. You can NOT miss the signs.
Need to get there 15 minutes faster? Take 283 S to Rt. 30 E at Lancaster. Take the Rt. 222 N interchange towards Reading. Ten or so miles up take Rt. 322 towards Ephrata, merge yourself onto Hahnstown Rd. then L at E. Mohler Church Rd. and stay with it (you'll have to turn right after a mile and a half to do that and then make another one... that Mohler Church does NOT want people from Lancaster to get to the Green Dragon), finally you will see North State Street after about 2 and a half miles of Mohler Church Rd. all told. Half a mile on State St. and you'll be there.
The Turnpike won't get you there any quicker, either, so save the outrageous $2.00 toll on the Harrisburg East to Reading section and see the cows... they're bored to cow tears out in those fields and they will moo with happiness to see you...
I always honk my horn at cows. I think it gives them something to think about.
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