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Rochester Highlights
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- “The gateway to Western New York,” Rochester is an easy flight from anywhere…anytime as the Rochester Airport (ROC) handles 220 flights daily and is a 15 minute commute from downtown. Amtrak and bus stations also serve the downtown and arrangements can be made for pick ups and drop offs as needed.
- Autumn, in Rochester, is an enchanted season when the landscape is painted in brilliant reds, yellows and oranges. Average high temperature in October is 60.5 degrees and the average minimum temperature is 41.6 degrees.
- Rochester’s topography includes a raging river, glacial drumlins, the nation’s most famous canal, the nearby Finger Lakes, and Lake Ontario.
- More than 40 public and semi-private golf courses exist within a short drive of the hotel.
- A kaleidoscope of culture defines the area including the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Garth Fagan Dance Company, the Memorial Art Gallery, the Rochester Museum and Science Center, the Strong National Museum of Play and the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film.
- The Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester is home to the only African elephants and Bornean orangutans in New York State.
- Rochester is a shopper’s paradise for antique buffs, Saturday public- market shoppers and crafters alike.
- For history lovers, tour the Susan B. Anthony House, the Stone-Tolan House, the Campbell-Whittlesey House, the nearby Granger Homestead or take a walking tour of Corn Hill (Rochester’s oldest residential neighborhood).
- For nightlife, High Falls, once center to America’s flour milling industry, provides a great view of Rochester’s urban High Falls and is home to trendy restaurants, bars and clubs.