Meh. Come? Where? This is an area where the #1 place locals take tourists is Wegmans' Grocery Store. I kid you not. This is not a place people go to, and this is not a place people come back to. This is a place where people aren't going anywhere in a hurry; those who do have left for good.
Rochester has nothing to offer tourists. Not a bad place to live, but nothing notable to visit.
Buffalo is, well ... it pretty much just isn't. Best it has is nearby Niagara Falls, which is fascinating for about 10 minutes.
Batavia and the adjoining intermediary region is, as noted above, a place of more cows than people. People live there because they started there and are not inclined to go anywhere else.
Batavia is a quiet little farming city, where residents are more interested in staying there than racing off somewhere else; anyone who IS more interested in racing off somewhere else already did and isn’t coming back.
Why go anywhere else when you’ve got Muckdogs Baseball?
http://batavia.muckdogs.milb.com/index.jsp?sid=t511
Here we go, Muckdogs, here we go....woof...woof....
:-D My comment was a bit of a wink directed at train superfan Willie!
Having visited Rochester a good many times on business ( not so much lately, ahem), I did like a colleague’s house on the Finger Lakes. I never got to Niagara Falls but I’m thinking about making a family tourist trip up there this summer. Maybe a swing by the Thousand Islands too.
Since New York taxes me for working in NYC, I might as well try to get something back for it!
Im on the west side - have been all my life....youre right - he have little in the way of notable festivals - plenty of them - nothing outstanding - theres the Lilac......smells great if you like fried foods....Theres the Eastman House.....big whoop dee doo....and the planetariam....which is outdone by any home theater youd find at Best Buy - though there is one festival that is HUGE and quickly becoming the best festival in NYS.....www.roccityribfest.com.....I took second place in '08....Its now a National BBQ Competition