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Create Your Own Getaway with these Fun-filled Ideas
Visit the Finger Lakes, Adirondacks, Thousand Islands, and Central NY and focus on what you love. Let these getaway ideas serve as a foundation for your next adventure, and add wine and brew trails, delicious culinary venues, picturesque surroundings, living history, and a wide range of recreational opportunities to enrich your journey every step of the way.
Utica, a City of Diversity
Culturally diverse, Utica is home to more than 40 nationalities and boasts many famous dishes indigenous to Utica and loved by New York folk far and wide.
Utica-Rome Speedway
This speedway facility is just 40 minutes east of Syracuse and features a 3/10-mile, low banked, clay oval and a half-mile, semi banked, clay oval racetracks.
Valley Brook Drive-In
Since 1966, this old-time drive-in theater has been featuring an array of hit movies under the stars.
VanHornesville Hatchery
VanHornesville Hatchery raises only rainbow trout, with production totaling about 30,000 pounds.
Vassar Golf Course
This nine-hole public golf course is situated on the beautiful Vassar College campus in Dutchess County.
Ventosa Vineyards
Overlooking its vineyard and Seneca Lake, this Finger Lakes vineyard offers tastings of its award-winning wines in a warm Tuscan setting.
Ventura's Restaurant
Since 1943, this classy, authentic Italian restaurant offers old world Italian dishes and features its own house brand marinara sauce.
Verdile's Restaurant
Serving up authentic Italian and American cuisine since 1943, this family-owned eatery is now in its third generation.