Travel Information for New York Hotel Guests
If you are searching for an inn, hotel, motel or resort near a New York attraction, amusement and theme parks, or close to shopping, cultural events, historic sites, museums and performing arts centers, or nearby zoos, a festival, a golf course, a New York state park, this is where you will find it.
NEW YORK state is a dazzling vacation destination with world-class attractions like Niagara Falls and the Statue of Liberty. Even long time visitors still marvel at the pulsating excitement of Times Square; you can camp, hike, canoe in the Adirondack or Catskill mountains, fish or play golf everywhere, explore the Hudson Valley mansions and the battlefields of Saratoga. There are breweries/wineries, casinos, Halls of Fame, museums, nature parks and zoos; and some of the greatest shopping in the world.
Its capital, ALBANY, was originally known as Fort Orange and its Dutch heritage is reflected in many street names and in the annual (May) Tulip Festival; historical attractions include Historic Cherry Hill a farmhouse built in the year the United States Constitution was drafted, Shaker Heritage Society, an 1848 Shaker Meeting House, and Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site, the 1761 home of the Revolutionary War general Philip Schuyler; for family fun there is the Jeepers indoor amusement park.
Attractions in BUFFALO include the Buffalo/Erie County Naval and Military Park, a museum of military history, and the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site. Near Buffalo, the Toy Town Museum at East Aurora exhibits toys through the ages. Waterfalls, mountains, forests and streams provide a picturesque setting in the CATSKILLS; there’s fishing at Livingstone Manor’s Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum and nearby rivers; at Narrowsburg history buffs can enjoy the hands-on Fort Delaware Museum of Colonial History; other attractions include the Kaatskill Kaleidoscope at Mount Tremper, Catskill Game Farm, Zoom Flume Water Park in East Durham, the scenery onboard the historic Delaware and Ulster Rail, and European-style wineries.
The CHAUTAUQUA Institution is a summer cultural family/learning vacation; nearby, in Jamestown in the Chautauqua-Allegheny region, is the Lucy-Desi Museum, a tribute to Jamestown's most famous daughter, Lucille Ball.
Located in the geographical center of the 1000 Islands, on a peninsula jutting out into the St. Lawrence River, CLAYTON is one of several small communities that make up the New York side of this tourist mecca; it is home to the Antique Boat Museum, the 1000 Islands Museum of Clayton with a 1900s village square, and the American Handweaving Museum and Thousand Islands Craft School; at nearby Alexandria Bay is Boldt Castle, a Rhineland castle built from 1900-1904 and accessible by boat; the Frederic Remington Art Museum at Ogdensburg is dedicated to the life and works of western artist Frederic Remington.
As the "Home of Baseball", COOPERSTOWN attractions here include the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the American Baseball Experience with three levels of innovative big league entertainment; the Farmers’ Museum is an 1845 village historic farmstead.
CORNING is frequently called the “Crystal City” because it is the home of the Museum of Glass; the Benjamin Patterson Inn Museum Complex has a 1784 log cabin, 1796 Tavern, blacksmith shop, and a 19th century one room schoolhouse.
In the HUDSON VALLEY, Sunnyside, the 19th century home of Washington Irving, creator of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, in Tarrytown, is filled with many of the author's personal possessions; just three miles north, visitors step back in time at Philipsburg Manor in Sleepy Hollow to the world of an 18th century farm and mill site. The Hudson Valley has some famous military attractions including the West Point Museum with exhibits on the history of West Point and Corps of Cadets, Stony Point, the site of a Revolutionary War battlefield, and the Van Wyck Homestead Museum which was a revolutionary War headquarters from 1776-1783; other attractions include the Franklin D Roosevelt National Historic Site at Hyde Park, birthplace home of the 32nd President, the Monroe Museum Village, a living history village depicting American life in the 1800s, and the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, a cultural complex.
Situated within 6-million acres of mountains, rivers and lakes, LAKE GEORGE is part of the largest wilderness park in the country - The Adirondacks; apart from the many outdoor opportunities, there are two 1755 restored forts of the French-Indian War era to see, Fort Ticonderoga and Fort William Henry Museum, and for the family there is Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom Fun Park and Wild West Ranch and Western Town. The legacy of the 1932 and 1980 Olympic Games in shown in many exhibits at the Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum and Hall of Fame; the North Creek Railway Depot Museum is a train depot transformed into a local and train history museum; the history of the Adirondack settlers is explored at the Blue Mountain Lake Adirondack Museum.
Attractions in the LEATHERSTOCKING include the Howe Caverns and the Iroquois Indian Museum at Howes Cave, as well as the Americana Village at Hamilton, and the National Soccer Hall of Fame & National Soccer Museum in Oneonta.
LONG ISLAND is the largest island adjoining the continental United States; the home and birthplace at Huntington Station of Walt Whitman, said to be America's greatest poet, is now a State Historic Site; major attractions on Long Island are the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum, the Centerport Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum, the Spanish Moroccan 24-room summer home of W. K. Vanderbilt II, and an extensive collection at the American Merchant Marine Museum at the Federal Academy, Kings Point.
Among the attractions in NEW YORK CITY's Bronx are the Bronx County Historical Society Museums, Yankee Stadium, Cony Island, and Astroland Amusement Park; some of the major attractions in Manhattan include the Cloisters Museum devoted to the art and horticulture of medieval Europe, the Empire State Building Observatory with its spectacular views, the Frick Collection of Western fine and decorative arts, Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece of modern architecture, the Guggenheim Museum, Madame Tussaud's, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art , and the New York City Fire Museum; there is also South Street Seaport, a waterfront community with a maritime museum and shops, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island as well as multilingual guided tours of the United Nations; New York culinary tours are geared for visitors interested in savoring New York's mouth watering, multi-ethnic dishes, cultures and neighborhoods.
In QUEENS, visitors can see the American Museum of the Moving Image located at Historic Astoria studio, the New York Hall of Science at Flushing, and Long Island City’s waterfront Socrates Sculpture Park.
Historic Richmond Town on STATEN ISLAND began as a hamlet in 1690 and has been restored to portray the evolution of a Staten Island settlement over four centuries; other attractions on Staten Island are the Snug Harbor Cultural Center comprised of 28 historic buildings and 86 acres of parkland.
The three NIAGARA FALLS are situated in the oldest State Park in the nation; visitors can see them on the Maid of the Mist; among the many attractions at Niagara Falls is the Daredevil Museum which has exhibits and photographs on Niagara's rich daredevil history. Nearby is the Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum at North Tonawanda. Just north of Niagara Falls is the Old Fort Niagara at Youngstown, an historic French-British fortress with the original buildings and fortifications and living history re-enactments. There’s a SixFlags theme park at Darien Lake, 45 minutes from Niagara.
The high-tech ROCHESTER community has also preserved many links with the past, offering attractions like the Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse, a museum dedicated to preserving local and marine history, and Seabreeze Park, a family amusement and water park. In Newark Valley nearby, the Bement-Billings Farmstead is an 1840s living history museum; the Hoffman Clock Museum in Newark has antique timepieces from many lands.
Nestled in the southern foothills of New York's Adirondack Mountains, SARATOGA SPRINGS has free-flowing mineral springs throughout the city at mineral baths and spas; the Saratoga Springs Heritage Area/Visitor Center is located in an historic trolley station. Saratoga Springs is also famous for its racing; visitors can visit the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame or go racing at Saratoga Race Course. The Historical Society of Saratoga Springs has three floors of exhibits on local history and settlement in a restored Casino from the 1870s; other attractions are the Petrified Sea Gardens with fossils over 500-million years old and the Saratoga National Historical Park (Saratoga Battlefield), a battlefield that marked the turning point of the American Revolution.
SYRACUSE attractions include the Syracuse Urban Cultural Park Visitor Center at the Erie Canal Museum, the Sainte Marie Among the Iroquois Living History Museum, and The Museum of Automobile History. Nearby at Camillus, the Erie Canal Park consists of seven navigable miles of the historic Erie Canal with nine miles of trails.
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