LOOKING FOR SOMETHING NEW TO DO THIS SUMMER? Try ballooning over the scenic countryside, kyaking along the Canals & Waterways, exploring a 250 year old fortress, or riding a Safari water slide in the Adirondacks !
Featured Family Fun Attractions
Antique Boat Museum
Thousand Islands - Seaway
The museum’s galleries overflow with more than 300 unique and beautifully-preserved boats and thousands of recreational boating artifacts.
Colonial Belle-Erie Canal Tour
Finger Lakes
Take the short half-hour drive west to Fairport to hop aboard the Colonial Belle, the largest tour boat operating on the historic Erie Canal.
Corning Museum of Glass
Finger Lakes
See a live demonstration of glass blowing a the Corning Museum of Glass and explore more than 3,500 years of glass history in its Art Collection Gallery.
Corning Museum's Glass Barge
Finger Lakes
The Corning Museum of Glass' innovative GlassBarge is a floating museum & mobile glass-making hot shop that will tour the Erie Canal in 2018.
Enchanted Forest Water Safari
The Adirondacks
The Enchanted Forest Water Safari is the Adirondack's largest water theme park located in Old Forge.
Erie Canal Museum
Finger Lakes
The hands-on interactive Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse is the world’s leading interpreters of Erie Canal history...
Fort Ontario
Thousand Islands - Seaway
Oswego's Fort Ontario is the only fort in the United States that has served in all military conflicts beginning with the French and Indian War of 1754-63.
H Lee White Maritime Museum at Oswego
Thousand Islands - Seaway
Open year round, Lake Ontario's Maritime Museum in Oswego also features several historic ships that are open seasonally for boarding, and a shuttle boat for lighthouse tours.
Antique Boat Museum
Thousand Islands - Seaway
The museum’s galleries overflow with more than 300 unique and beautifully-preserved boats and thousands of recreational boating artifacts.
Colonial Belle-Erie Canal Tour
Finger Lakes
Take the short half-hour drive west to Fairport to hop aboard the Colonial Belle, the largest tour boat operating on the historic Erie Canal.
Corning Museum of Glass
Finger Lakes
See a live demonstration of glass blowing a the Corning Museum of Glass and explore more than 3,500 years of glass history in its Art Collection Gallery.
Corning Museum's Glass Barge
Finger Lakes
The Corning Museum of Glass' innovative GlassBarge is a floating museum & mobile glass-making hot shop that will tour the Erie Canal in 2018.
Enchanted Forest Water Safari
The Adirondacks
The Enchanted Forest Water Safari is the Adirondack's largest water theme park located in Old Forge.
Erie Canal Museum
Finger Lakes
The hands-on interactive Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse is the world’s leading interpreters of Erie Canal history...
Fort Ontario
Thousand Islands - Seaway
Oswego's Fort Ontario is the only fort in the United States that has served in all military conflicts beginning with the French and Indian War of 1754-63.
H Lee White Maritime Museum at Oswego
Thousand Islands - Seaway
Open year round, Lake Ontario's Maritime Museum in Oswego also features several historic ships that are open seasonally for boarding, and a shuttle boat for lighthouse tours.
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Get to award-winning Finger Lakes wineries by boat
Finger Lakes
Water To Wine Tours offers a number of scenic boat tours to award-winning wineries along Cayuga lake.
Warren County Bikeway
The Adirondacks
This paved 9.4-mile, multi-use trail with rolling hills and diverse terrain traverses over bridges, through woods, and past streams and ponds.
1000 Islands Water Taxi Scenic Tours
Thousand Islands - Seaway
1000 Islands Water Taxi provides exclusive scenic 1000 Islands cruises aboard a classic wooden boat.
1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse
Finger Lakes
The 1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse serves as an educational historic site and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
1833 Buffalo Lighthouse
Greater Niagara
This iconic 1833 Buffalo Lighthouse was first lit in 1833 and served until 1914 and was the second of four lights marking the main entrance to Buffalo Harbor.
1890 House Museum
Finger Lakes
Located in the heart of downtown Cortland, this lavish 30-room mansions howcases parquet floors, jewel-like stained glass windows and period room settins.
Above All Balloon Rides
Capital-Saratoga
Above All Balloon Rides floats over rolling hills and waterfalls and down into valleys while you enjoy the wildlife and landscape of the beautiful Albany area.
Ace of Diamonds Mine
Central New York
Digging for Herkimer Diamonds at The Ace of Diamonds Mine and Campground is fun and can be enjoyed by prospectors of any age.
Adirondack Balloon Flights, LLC
Capital-Saratoga
Drift peacefully and smoothly as you soar to discover magnificent views of Saratoga Springs region of Upstate New York.
Adirondack Carousel
The Adirondacks
This community created carousel is graced with beautiful wildlife animals carved by local woodcarvers that will mesmerize and delight children and adults alike.
Adirondack Cruise and Charter Co.
Capital-Saratoga
Adirondack Cruise and Charter Co. features a wide variety of ticketed cruises from sunset and foliage cruises to elegant dinner cruises on Saratoga Lake and Fish Creek.
Adirondack Eagle Flyer Zip Line
The Adirondacks
Soar above the treetops as high as 125 feet off the ground to view breathtaking views of Lake George and the spectacular Adirondack Mountains.
