New York Travel

Statewide Resources

I Love New York State
The Official New York State Tourism Website that provides information on Attractions, Recreation, Events, and Accommodations.
National Park Service: Erie Canalway
National Heritage Corridor
The Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor covers 524 miles in Upstate New York, including four navigable waterways: Erie, Champlain, Oswego and Cayuga-Seneca; sections of the first Erie Canal; and over 200 municipalities adjacent to the canals. The New York State Canal System is the most commercially enduring and historically significant canalway in the United States, having helped open up western America for settlement and for many years transporting much of the Midwest's agricultural and industrial products to domestic and international markets.
New York Canals
Includes a Calendar of Events along the Erie Canal, and information on hiking, biking, and boating.
New York State Citizen Guide
Click on Recreation and Tourism for links to Arts & Entertainment, Camping, Destinations, Highway Information, Historic Sites, Hunting and Fishing, Libraries, Museums and Archives, Maps, New York State Fair, Recreation Activities, State Parks, Vacation Planning Information, and Winter Sports.
Uncork New York!
Covers information about New York wine country: Lake Erie, Finger Lakes, Central New York, Hudson Valley, New York City, and Long Island. From the New York Wine & Grape Foundation.

Info Niagara
A comprehensive vacation guide for Niagara Falls with information on accommodations, dining, and attractions.
Niagara Falls State Park
Topics include Attractions & Adventures, Discover the Falls, Plan Your Trip, Dining.
Niagara Parks Commission
This is the Canadian side of the park maintained by the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Recreation.

City of Rochester
Besides city information for residents, this website includes links to visting and leisure information.
KidsOutAndAbout.com
Everything there is to do for kids and families in the Rochester, NY area. Includes a comprehensive, searchable calendar, Rochester Loves Kids series of seasonal articles, pediatrician listing, virtual playground tour, kid-friendly restaurants, places to go, outdoor activities
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Daily newspaper offering information on events and restaurants
Visit Rochester
A website for the visitor from the Greater Rochester Visitors Association, Inc.

The Chautauqua Institution
Chautauqua, New York
For nine weeks each year, from late June through late August, the Institution offers a rich blend of arts, programming and recreational activities.
Chatauqua Lake Erie Wine Trail
You can select from a dozen wineries and they will map out a trail for you with driving directions.
Friends of the Genesee Valley Greenway
The mission of the Friends is to establish and maintain a public, multi-use trail and natural greenway corridor along the abandoned Genesee Valley Canal and its successor, the Pennsylvania Railroad, Rochester Division, from the Erie Canal Heritage Trail in Rochester, NY to Hinsdale, Cattaraugus County, NY.
Tour Chatauqua
A website from the Chautauqua County Visitors Bureau with information about this historic resort on the shores of Chautauqua Lake.