Suggested Tour Itineraries
Scroll this page for day-by-day trips around Rochester and beyond, including typical touristy activities, seasonal hints, sports and worship, and starting points for more info. Rochester is a mid-sized city where you are unlikely to get caught in traffic. You may need to drive an hour to see some popular regional sites, but you can keep yourself busy in the city or nearby suburbs. Public transit is available, but it is not as prevalent in major cities. Gas prices are "average", compared to the rest of the USA. Local restaurants are gradually incorporating the national trend of online reservations, try ![[WWW]](https://rocwiki.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png){kind=small}
Opentable or Tock. Ride services such as Uber and Lyft are available.
Mix 'n Match Days
Mix 1
-
Diner: Nick Tahou's
-
Coffee Shop: Pearson's Market and Cafe or Union Place Coffee Roasters
-
Visit High Falls
-
Take a tour of George Eastman House
-
Restaurant (Park Avenue!): Blu Wolf Bistro or The Hideaway
Mix 2
-
Diner: Jine's Restaurant
-
Coffee Shop: Spot Coffee or Java's
-
Tour the Erie Canal on The Sam Patch
-
Restaurant (Japanese!): California Rollin' or Plum Garden
-
Catch a movie at Little Theatre.
Mix 3
-
Visit a Wegmans for some snacks.
-
Travel to Letchworth State Park or a Finger Lakes Winery.
-
Come back and have dinner at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que.
A Mix for the Kids
-
Breakfast: Visit Charlie's Frog Pond for a great breakfast.
-
Before lunch: Head to the Strong National Museum of Play and play all morning!
-
Lunch: Grab a bite in the Tom Wahl's Diner Car in the Strong Museum.
-
After Lunch: More time in the Strong Museum or, if your kids are a little older, the Rochester Museum and Science Center. If it is nice out, visit Cobbs Hill Park to fly a kite, climb the hill and feed the fowl.
Saturday Mix
-
Go by the Public Market to buy some apples and eat an empanada at Juan and Maria's or a pierogi at Cherrys European.
-
Drive to Corning and spend the day at the Corning Museum of Glass.
-
Get a pizza from a place reviewed by the
Rochester NY Pizza Blog.
Spiritual Mix
Sports Mix
-
Rochester features minor league professional baseball (
Red Wings), hockey (Americans aka Amerks) and lacrosse (Knighthawks).
-
Notable Division I college teams:
RIT hockey, and Syracuse University (about 75 miles east).
-
Buffalo (about 60 miles west) is a big-league town for football (
Bills) and hockey (Sabres).
-
The closest MLB and NBA teams are in Toronto. See
international travel requirements.
Seasonal Mixes
Summer Mix
-
Go to a Festival. It doesn't matter what weekend it is, there's one going on.
-
See other: Outdoor Activities
Fall Mix
-
See the colorful leaves around the Finger Lakes.
-
Attend a
high school marching band competition.
Winter Mix
-
Go sledding or ice skating.
Spring Mix
-
See what's starting to grow at Highland Park. In May, visit the
Lilac Festival
Formal Tours
-
Cobblestone Building Tour - Driving tour to learn about & experience the unique pre-Civil War structures built with glacial and lake-washed cobblestones, that still exist today as living history.
-
Local travel agencies can arrange tours of Rochester, the Finger Lakes Wine Trail, Niagara Falls and More...
-
Some Things Afoot tour guide Patrick Adams offers a pay-what-you-want walking tour of two of Rochester's most well-known neighborhoods, Park Avenue, and NOTA
Comments:
Note: You must be logged in to add comments
2024-11-03 12:59:37 This is an interesting page, IMO. The last edit (before me adding the comment section) was 2017, so I would like to give this some thought, since a location in each of the first two groups was briefly closed in 2024 due to failed health inspections. —GaryGocek
2024-11-11 23:53:08 I added a "sports mix". All the teams I mentioned are men's teams except the SU link. I invite someone to fill in links to women's teams. —GaryGocek
2024-11-12 14:34:44 Both the men's and women's ice hockey teams at RIT play in Division I. —markjackson
2024-11-12 22:54:08 Thanks markjackson, I added RIT. My bad, I am an alumnus. —GaryGocek
