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Central New York & Thousand Islands
Cooperstown, Syracuse and Alexandria Bay mix baseball, canal stories and the St. Lawrence River.
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Find your place
Central New York & Thousand Islands, a little closer.
Cooperstown, Syracuse and Alexandria Bay mix baseball, canal stories and the St. Lawrence River. Give the distant communities their own days rather than treating them as one short loop.
Highlighted counties locate these featured towns. These six WTDO discovery areas are editorial groupings. Markers indicate approximate town centers, not entrances or driving routes. Select a town to open its guide. County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau.
Three places to begin.
Choose a local stop, then find food and a place to stay.
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Your next good stop.
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Browse published places around Central New York & Thousand Islands. Business details are supplied by their owners.
Photo credits & visitor sources
Real New York photographs. Photo dates vary; images illustrate places, not current weather or operating conditions.
- Otsego lake at lakefront.jpg — 420Traveler. I phone CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- The aging Syracuse, New York, building to the right in downtown Syracuse, New York, was the longtime home of a custom jewelry store, which moved out to make way for a wholesale renovation of the building — Carol M. Highsmith. Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- Boldt Castle, Heart Island, Thousand Islands, New York.jpg — Fhard555. Own work CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
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County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb, New York FIPS36. Six WTDO areas are editorial discovery groupings.