Digging for Herkimer Diamonds is fun and can be enjoyed by prospectors of any age...

While you are getting your prospecting on at Ace of Diamonds, you can set up camp right where you dig!

Christened "the best of its kind in the world," The Adirondack Experience, The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake is an "Adirondack Must-See."

Located approximately 12 miles from the village of Saranac Lake, this facility specializes in rearing landlocked Atlantic salmon for statewide distribution.

Along with information, the Visitors Center has a variety of permanent displays exploring the history of Albany from 1609 to present day and more...

Locally known as the Pine Bush, this 3,350-acre preserve is one of the largest of the 20 inland pine barrens in the world.

The museum is home to thousands of pieces of memorabilia and collectibles related to the popular MGM movie, "The Wizard of Oz"

The American Maple Museum was founded in 1977 to preserve the history and evolution of the North American maple syrup industry.

Walk around more than 300 unique and beautifully-preserved boats and thousands of boating artifacts.

Just a few blocks from Niagara Falls State Park, the aquarium features more than 40 exhibits and 128 different species of mammals, fish, birds and reptiles.

The Audubon Nature Center wildlife sanctuary has several observation opportunities and includes exhibits and more than five miles of trails and more ..

This autumn, join a NYS Licensed Guide and Wild Center Naturalist on an interpretive canoe paddle along the Raquette River’s oxbow.

Located one mile from the village of Bath, this hatchery rears lake trout, brown trout and rainbow trout from fish collected from Cayuga Lake.

This 950-acre park has a half-mile sandy beach for swimming, an adjacent 80- slip marina, an 18-hole championship golf course and more...

Set on the site of the 1969 Woodstock festival, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts offers multiple stages featuring a diverse selection of popular and legendary artists ...

Built between 1804 and 1808, Boscobel House is a national historic museum and displays one of the finest collections of decorative arts from the Federal period.

Bowman Lake features a sandy beach and shady campsites for both tents and trailers, rustic cabins, a nature center and more...

Open daily year-round, this national historic site, education center and tourist destination is full of exotic horticulture treasures from around the world.

This naval museum is home to several decommissioned US Naval vessels along with smaller vessels, vehicles, and aircraft with ties to the Navy on display.

Just minutes from downtown Buffalo, this museum interactive exhibit spaces, special traveling exhibits, a National Geographic 3D Cinem and more.

This 35-acre open-air museum encompasses 12 historic buildings moved from their original site that include homes, one-room schoolhouses, a barbershop, blacksmith and a church.

Dedicated exclusively to the art and artists of Western New York, Burchfield Penney Art Center plays host to more than 30 major exhibitions a year...

Established in 1864, this hatchery is the oldest hatchery in New York State and the Western Hemisphere.

A 150-acre refuge in New York’s Hudson Valley, the animal sanctuary has seen more than 5,000 farmed animals rescued from cruelty, neglect and abandonment since 2001.

Located two of New York State's fabled trout streams, the Beaver Kill and Willowemoc Creek, Catskill Hatchery specializes in rearing brown trout.

Located in downtown Glens Falls, the museum features the restored Victorian home of the DeLong family, exhibits about the history of the Glens Falls area, a research archive and gift shop.

Chateaugay Hatchery has a very diverse rearing program which includes lake trout, brown trout, rainbow trout and brook trout

This is the only DEC hatchery currently raising pure strain muskellunge, which are obtained from netting and egg collection on Chautauqua Lake and in some other waters.

Immerse yourself in the center of Chenango County’s past through exhibits exploring the rich history of the local region.

The Children's Museum at Saratoga is an interactive museum designed to help children learn by doing/touching and testing in their own way and at their own pace.

This hands-on museum provides children with the opportunity to investigate, observe, analyze, and build with engaging exhibits and facilitated programming to support active learning.

The exhibits in this interactive museum focus on aspects of current and historical local significance, imaginative play, the arts, science, and mathematics

Clark Reservation State Park's natural features include rugged cliffs and rocky outcrops, woodland and meadow, a wetland and a glacial meromictic lake.

The CNY Living History Center is home to three museums – The Brockway Museum, The Homeville Museum and The T.O.Y.S. Museum

Head to Corning and participate in a live glass blowing demonstration at the Corning Museum of Glass.

The Cumming Nature Center is a 900-acre environmental education facility offering themed hiking and exploring trails, educational programs, events and service-learning opportunities.

The Dirt Motorsport Hall of Fame and Classic Car Museum Features many classic cars, rare photographs, historic race cars and racing memorabilia.

Enjoy family-friendly eco-cruises, tranquil sunsets and special events aboard Cayuga Lake's largest tour boat, the MV Teal.

This 22,500-square-foot Discovery Center is a hands-on children's museum created for, with and by children with 30 play-and-learn exhibits

Evangola State Park's beautiful arc-shaped shoreline and natural sand beach on Lake Erie feature low cliffs of Angola shale that line the edge of the beach.

The Everson Museum is internationally recognized for its extensive and significant collection of ceramics and pioneering art video collection.

Today, the all-new Explore & More – The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Children’s Museum offers 43,000 square feet with four floors of fun at Buffalo’s waterfront at Canalside.

Located next door to Sugar Hill State Forest, just 10 ½ miles west of Watkins Glen, lies the rolling green pastures of Upstate New York's 175-acre Farm Sanctuary, home to more than 500 rescued farm animals.

As one of the oldest rural life museums in the country, you will have the opportunity to experience life circa 1845 on a working farm.

This outdoor learning center offers more than 24 native, exotic and domestic animal exhibits, 12 beautiful gardens and a duck pond and a native pond ...

Visit the only fort in the US that has served in all military conflicts beginning with the French & Indian War of 1754-63.

Just an hour's drive east of Syracuse, Fort Stanwix proudly identifies itself as the place where the "American flag was first flown in battle."

Every day promises to be an event as the 2,000-acre Fort Ticonderoga boasts to be the only site in America that tells a new story each year through dynamic historical interpretation and exhibitions.

An archive as well as a museum, this the first presidential library in the United States and is the only one used by a sitting president – FDR served from 1933-1945.

Just 20 miles southeast of Rochester is Ganondagan State Historic Site, the site of a Native American community that once was a flourishing, vibrant center for the Seneca people

Taste 100 percent pure Concord grape juice, wines from Lake Erie Wine Country, and a variety of regional flavors at the Grape Discovery Center.

The Great Swamp's Conservancy fosters environmental education, biological diversity and conservation of natural resources in the Oneida Lake and Lake Ontario Watersheds.

Visit the H Lee White Maritime Museum in Oswego, take a Harbor Lighthouse tour by boat, and see the famous LT-5 Tugboat.

The Helmer Nature Center is both an outdoor classroom and an environmental resource that encompasses approximately 45 acres of land with trails.

Did you ever think a weekend getaway could include prospecting for 'diamonds'? Well, put on your prospecting hat .. (Summer, Fall)

Listed on the National Registers of Historic Sites, the complex features two antique carousels - the 1916 #1 Special and the 1942 Kiddie Carousel.

The Niagara History Center is comprised of three separate sites - The Outwater Memorial Building, The Erie Canal Discovery Center, and the Col. William Bond/Jesse Hawley House...

Howe Caverns is the largest show cave in the Northeast U.S. and stays a pleasant 55 degrees Fahrenheit year-round.

This waterfront museum features rotating exhibits along with a fleet of small boats, including an 1898 steam tugboat, and an extensive gift shop.

I-Square is a cool, mixed-use area featuring an eclectic mix of restaurants, rooftop gardens, office space and an outdoor amphitheater...

Dedicated to preserving and promoting all that is grand about the culture of Ireland, The Irish Cultural Center of the Mohawk Valley brings together the talents and contributions of several local Irish cultural organizations.

Housed in a Great Iroquois Longhouse, the museum serves as a venue for promoting Iroquois art and artists and hosts events celebrating the Iroquois culture and history.

This unique 3D natural history museum offers the opportunity to get a good look at thousands of seashells and mollusks that have been living in the waterways...

Thacher State Park is one of the richest fossil-bearing formations in the world and provides an amazing panorama of the Hudson-Mohawk Valleys and the Adirondack and Green Mountains.

Lake Placid Museum preserves the legacy of the Olympic games with great exhibits ..

Lime Hollow Nature Center encompasses nearly 430 acres of beautiful rolling hills, shallow glacial valleys, forests, fields, streams and numerous ponds.

Majestically seated on a hill overlooking the scenic Hudson River, this National Historic Landmark estate features 200 acres of landscaped grounds with five miles of hiking trails and an historic Italianate mansion.

Located in an historic Pennsylvania Railroad Depot, this Mayville museum is host to thousands of artifacts and documents representing all aspects of our area's rich and varied past.

Housed in one of the largest standing wooden freight depot, built in 1905, the Medina Railroad Museum is the largest Railroad and Toy Train Museum in New York State.

Located in the heart of the historic waterfront, the museum offers five exhibit galleries and a outdoor children’s garden focusing on early learning, science, literacy, math, art, music and community.

Just 8.3 miles from Alexandria Bay, the Minna Anthony Common Nature Center is one of the largest nature centers in the state park system and in New York State.

Situated in the middle of one of the most active flight lanes in the Atlantic Flyway, this 9,809-acre wildlife refuge today provides resting, feeding, and nesting habitat for waterfowl and other migratory birds.

At Cooperstown's National Baseball Hall of Fame, discover the history of America's pastime, see thousands of artifacts and enjoy hands-on learning.

Founded in 1994, the museum restores, flies and displays vintage military aircraft from the Second World War and Korean War eras.

Seated majestically atop Albany's State Street hill, the New York State Capitol has served as the seat of government for New York since the 1880s.

In operation from 1871 to 1916, this lighthouse along with the keeper’s house was originally built on a pier on the west side of the Oak Orchard River.

Old Fort Niagara offers you a chance to step back in time to an era when great empires struggled for control of North America.

From spring to autumn, Old McDonald's Farm welcomes thousands of families to their 6000-acre farm to take part in an educational and agricultural adventure enjoyed by kids and adults alike.

The Oneida Fish Culture Station specializes in raising walleye, but it does occasionally raise some rare fish like lake sturgeon, paddlefish and whitefish.

Go prospecting for your very own world-famous Herkimer Diamond which was faceted by nature half a billion years ago.

This major brood stock facility handles 5-6 million brook, brown and rainbow trout eggs each year with annual production totaling nearly 100,000 pounds of fish.

The museum's exhibits focus on art, local history, science and natural history with the centerpiece of the museum being the 1904 Roberson Mansion.

Home to a large variety of flora and fauna, the park's nature, hiking and skiing trails wind through fields, forests and wetlands, with overlooks showcasing spectacular views.

Let the fun, adventure and learning begin at the Rochester Museum and Science Center!

Every year the Roger Tory Peterson Institute offers exciting events and spectacular natural history exhibitions that attract thousands of visitors.

This facility is one of the Department of Environmental Conservation’s (DEC) largest hatcheries boasting an annual production of nearly 160,000 pounds of brook, rainbow and brown trout.

​Built in 1980, this hatchery produces more than 2 million fingerlings and close to 1 million yearlings each year and offers self-guided tours.

This museum is home to a collection of more than 250,000 historic items from the former Gladding Corporation’s Museum, the first ever museum of its kind in the country.

Located on the shores of Onondaga Lake, this unique museum spotlights the industry that gave rise to the city of Syracuse and at one time, supplied the entire nation with salt.

Travel the routes of America’s early settlers aboard The Sam Patch, a replica of an historic packet boat, that sails daily from Pittsford...

Founded in 1980, this unique museum offers a glimpse into Saranac Lake's history as a world-wide center for TB research and patient care.

MiSci is a dynamic destination that explores the region's rich technological heritage, with some of the region's finest interactive and traveling exhibits.

Located in downtown Seneca Falls, you will learn how the Seneca River and the Cayuga-Seneca Canal powered the rise of industry and fostered cultural development.

With an annual production of 15,000 pounds of fish, this hatchery rears the entire statewide supply of tiger muskellunge and produces pond-reared walleye fingerlings.

The Spirit of Buffalo offers a variety of cruises like sunset sails, craft brew cruises, Wine in the Wind sails, educational excursions and their popular and signature Children's Pirate Adventures.

Sterling Nature Center is a 1,428-acre nature center with 10 miles of hiking trails and 2 miles of Lake Ontario shore to explore.

Located in New York’s Hudson Valley, this unique open air art center is a sprawling 500-acre outdoor museum boasting large-scale sculpture and site-specific commissions under open sky.

Serving a small-town American community from 1884 to 1991, the Dr. Best collection echoes reminders of a quickly changing era and Civil War.

The hands-on interactive Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse is the world’s leading interpreters of the Erie Canal.

The Greenburgh Nature Center has nature trails, live animals, and replica of a 6,000 year old Native American village.

The Museum of Science and Technology is an exciting, hands-on science museum, planetarium and home to the only domed IMAX in Upstate NY.

Albany's New York State Museum is a Fun Place to Visit and a Major Center for art, science, human and natural history.

The Strong is a highly interactive museum and home to the world's largest collection of historical play materials.

Walk among the treetops of the Adirondack forest where you can view animals and nature in their natural setting.

Step back in time into the world of our 26th president, Theodore Roosevelt, at the site where he was sworn into office after the assassination of President William McKinley.

For more than 50 years, The Children's Museum of History, Natural History & Science, now known as the Utica Children's Museum, has been housed in a historic building located in the heart of Utica's downtown Bagg's Square district.

VanHornesville Hatchery raises only rainbow trout, with production totaling about 30,000 pounds.

Take a Walk on the Wild Side at the Wild Center and See the Adirondacks and its Animals !

Follow the trails to explore one of America’s most important industrial sites of the Industrial Revolution and the Civil War at this “outdoor museum...”

An amusement park for the mind, WonderWorks features more than 100 hands-on science exhibits as well as laser tag, a ropes course and a 4D motion ride.

he museum introduces children to topics related to geography, foods, daily activities and traditions in other countries through interactive exhibitions, multicultural programs, and exciting events.

The Yager Museum of Art & Culture at Hartwick College features five galleries with both permanent and temporary exhibits.