Business offers bicycle and kayak tours of Buckeye Lake featuring bar and restaurant stops

BUCKEYE LAKE — Jeff and Lynsey Comer have struck upon a unique way to see Buckeye Lake and its attractions with their 3XP Tours.

3XP Tours stands for paddles, peddles and pints.

"I actually take people out on tours," Jeff Comer said. "It's a kayak, bike and brews tour. It's the only one of its kind here on Buckeye Lake."

Customers can choose from an east tour or a west tour. The tours start with a 3- to 4-mile bike ride around the lake on the bike path and concludes at Buckeye Lake Brewery for drinks. Customers then walk to the adjacent 3XP office and board kayaks to other bars and restaurants for food and drinks.

Tours last about five hours with around an hour spent on the bike.

There is also children's tour called Kids and Kayaks where children get a 30-minute kayak lesson in a pond culminated by ice cream.

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Jeff Comer can take a maximum of 10 people on a tour. Customers do not rent the bikes and kayaks and do not go out on their own. Instead, he leads them on the tours and said he would also take out only one person should that situation arise.

"We haven't had any single bookings, but we've had couples for date nights," he said. "And we've had a couple groups with six people where there's three couples booked."

Jeff Comer said he has arrangements with several Buckeye Lake bars and restaurants to partner with the tours.

"Last summer I started studying the trends of the lake," he said. "So I decided that, yep, we're going to go for it. There was nobody doing this on the lake. There's other companies that rent bikes, which is great, and rent kayaks. But there's nothing like this."

Comer said he and his wife both love the outdoors, which is one of the reasons they started the new business.

"We just wanted to be outdoors," he said. "We're always outdoors hiking, biking, overlanding in the Jeep, and we take our boys out a lot. So we wanted to create something that one, shows people the lake and how beautiful Buckeye Lake is now after they renovated it years ago. And two, we just wanted to be outside."

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The business opened in November to try and catch some Christmas trade, Jeff Comer said. Its initial full season that will run through September.

Tours will start at 3 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays and at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays

Visit www.3xptours.com to book a tour, which costs $65 per person. Customers must pay for their own food and drinks at each stop.

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This article originally appeared on Lancaster Eagle-Gazette: New business offers bicycle and kayak tours of Buckeye Lake