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The Sights and Sites of Rochester and Western New York

The Spa at Woodcliff

The Links - Golf at Woodcliff

The Links - Golf at Woodcliff

Book a sweet retreat to relax and rejuvenate. Massages, facials, pampering…you may even score bonus time with the bride and her mother…

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The Links - Golf at Woodcliff

The Links - Golf at Woodcliff

The Links - Golf at Woodcliff

Play, compete, relax…on a USGA rated 9 hole course without ever leaving the property. 

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Canandaigua Wine Trail

The Links - Golf at Woodcliff

The George Eastman House

The Finger Lakes Wine Region has both beauty and fun! The stunning lake views, lush and bountiful banks, rolling hills, and dozens and dozens of wineries. If you’re planning on arriving to the area early or staying past the weekend, this is a day trip worth the stay. 

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The George Eastman House

The George Eastman House

The George Eastman House

George Eastman pioneered film and motion picture arts. The mansion and its grounds are spectacular. The founder of Kodak’s home in Rochester has been meticulously preserved and now serves as a beautiful tribute to everything film. The cafe boasts the original neon Cafe American sign from ”Casablanca” among so many other famous movie moments. Learn and enjoy so much of what we love and appreciate about enduring images and how they’re created and how they were created right here in Rochester. 

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Memorial Art Gallery

The George Eastman House

Memorial Art Gallery

The MAG has a little of everything: 5,000 year old relics, Old Masters, modern and contemporary art, all in a format and footprint that‘s easily accessed and viewable in a quick morning or early afternoon. 

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New York Kitchen

The George Eastman House

Memorial Art Gallery

Formerly the Canandaigua Wine and Culinary Center…new name, same great experience! Taste wine, taste beer, take a cooking class, sample everything New York! Worth a stay of an extra day…

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Fun for the Whole Family

Who are we kidding…there’s always the Pool!

An indoor/outdoor pool used to count as two separate but equal play opportunities! 

Strong National Museum of Play

Visit the set of Sesame Street exactly as it appears on television. Climb inside a real helicopter and get to touch everything in the cockpit. Touch and build and play with everything. And, of course, this is Rochester, so there is a perfectly appointed Wegmans where kids can shop and cook and check themselves out with the conveyors and scanners and registers…yes, this is a museum with exhibits full of nostalgia for the adults, but also full of fully interactive exhibits encouraging play for children. And don’t forget the living butterfly garden conservatory!

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Rochester Museum and Science Center and Strasenburgh Planetarium

Seneca Park Zoo

The RMSC and Strasenburgh Planetarium are amazing fun for the whole family. Their exhibits include a locally found and recovered mastodon skeleton in addition to its exhibits that focus on science and technology, outer space, and our local waterways. And fun fact…Sarah Paddock has known its president and CEO for 50 years and wore one of Hillary’s shirts in Sarah’s 3rd grade play. She wonders if Hillary knows this…

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Seneca Park Zoo

Seneca Park Zoo

Seneca Park Zoo

From A-mphibians to Z-ebras…our zoo is very walkable and doable in its entirety in just a couple of hours. It is full of animal life and play opportunities for everyone. Climb the spider web, den-up like the wolves, and enjoy the overhead and underwater views of the sea lions and polar bears. In addition to a zoo and educational facility, it is our region's largest conservancy project and nationally recognized breeding projects for elephants and giraffes, river otters and penguins, orangutans and lions! There’s a lot happening at Seneca Park Zoo…and you can do it all!

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Ontario Beach Park

Seneca Park Zoo

Seabreeze Amusement Park

This public beach area of our Great Lake Ontario has miles of sandy beach, walking trails, playgrounds, places to eat, lifeguards, and a meticulously restored 120 year old Dentzel Menagerie Carousel with 52 hand carved wooden animals to ride right at the water’s edge. 

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Seabreeze Amusement Park

Seneca Park Zoo

Seabreeze Amusement Park

If you want to ride an historic wooden roller coaster worthy of nostalgia, or a thoroughly modern steel roller coaster that looks like it’s sending you flying into the Great Lake Ontario, or if you would choose a log flume that feels like you’re plummeting straight into it…this park is for you! It’s a small park with some big thrills for all ages.

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