Having Fun in Syracuse and Central New York (CNY)
Syracuse.com provides information from the Syracuse Post-Standard newspaper and a host of local listings of activities and restaurants in the city and beyond.
CNYCentral provides up-to-date information from several local television newsrooms as well as a wide set of listings for activities in the region.
June 25-27, 2010: Syracuse Jazz Fest at Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY
Le Moyne is located within a 30 minute drive of Skaneateles Lake, one of the most beautiful and eastern of the Finger Lakes. Visitors who have a car can explore the whole Finger Lakes region easily including trips to Ithaca and Cornell University (55 miles from Le Moyne), the Finger Lakes Wineries, the Women’s Rights National Historical Park (Seneca Falls) and all the many miles of beautiful countryside in between.
The town of Skaneateles at the north end of the lake offers a set of dining and shopping possibilities that many find quite attractive.
Most of the Finger Lakes wineries are located around Keuka Lake, Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake. Tours of the wineries are a summer favorite for visitors.
Seneca Falls is located at the north end of Seneca Lake, about a 50-60 minute drive from Syracuse. The town is the home of the Women’s Rights National Historical Park.
As our friends on Wikipedia note, “The Thousand Islands is the name of an archipelago of islands that straddle the Canada-U.S. border in the Saint Lawrence River as it emerges from the northeast corner of Lake Ontario. They stretch for about 50 miles (80 km) downstream from Kingston, Ontario. The Canadian islands are in the province of Ontario. The U.S. islands are in the state of New York. The islands, which number 1,793 in all, range in size from over 40 square miles (100 km2) to smaller islands occupied by a single residence, to even smaller uninhabited outcroppings of rocks that are home to migratory waterfowl.”
The Thousand Islands region is located about 90 miles north of Syracuse. Visitors by car can drive straight north on I-81 to reach the area in 90 minutes. Across the border in Canada, drivers can connect quickly to the Trans-Canada Highway (Route 401)