I'm planning on coming up a couple of days early. Will be my first time in NY. Planning on driving to see the falls...any other interesting things nearby to check out?
What kinds of things do you like to do?
Letchworth State Park, about an hour south of Rochester, is beautiful. They call it the Grand Canyon of the East and though that's a bit of an overstatement, still worth visiting. Chimney Bluffs, about an hour and a half east, is an interesting coastal dune/bluff formation. In the city itself, there's High Falls which is a roughly 100' waterfall on the Geneseo River, basically just outside downtown. Kind of an unusual place for such a large waterfall. Then there's places like the Eastman museum, Susan B Anthony house, Mt Hope cemetery, etc. Further south are the waterfalls/gorges around Ithaca, Corning glass works, etc.