Albany Turning Stone Resort & Casino Auburn Syracuse Thousand Islands Sylvan Beach Binghamton Soccer Hall of Fame Buffalo Seabreeze Amusement Park Cortland Saratoga Race Course Elmira Niagara Falls Glens Falls Letchworth State Park Ithaca Lake Placid Jamestown Lake George Kingston International Boxing Hall of Fame Middletown Howe Caverns Newburgh Fort Stanwix Niagara Falls Plattsburgh Fort Ticonderoga Poughkeepsie Fort Ontario Rochester Rome Fort Niagara Saratoga Springs Finger Lakes Schenectady Farmers' Museum Syracuse Erie Canal Troy Darien Lake Utica Watertown Corning Museum of Glass Adirondack Mountains Catskill Mountains Ausable Chasm Baseball Hall of Fame Albany Turning Stone Resort & Casino Auburn Syracuse Thousand Islands Sylvan Beach Binghamton Soccer Hall of Fame Buffalo Seabreeze Amusement Park Cortland Saratoga Race Course Elmira Niagara Falls Glens Falls Letchworth State Park Ithaca Lake Placid Jamestown Lake George Kingston International Boxing Hall of Fame Middletown Howe Caverns Newburgh Fort Stanwix Niagara Falls Plattsburgh Fort Ticonderoga Poughkeepsie Fort Ontario Rochester Rome Fort Niagara Saratoga Springs Finger Lakes Schenectady Farmers' Museum Syracuse Erie Canal Troy Darien Lake Utica Watertown Corning Museum of Glass Adirondack Mountains Catskill Mountains Ausable Chasm Baseball Hall of Fame Albany Turning Stone Resort & Casino Auburn Syracuse Thousand Islands Sylvan Beach Binghamton Soccer Hall of Fame Buffalo Seabreeze Amusement Park Cortland Saratoga Race Course Elmira Niagara Falls Glens Falls Letchworth State Park Ithaca Lake Placid Jamestown Lake George Kingston International Boxing Hall of Fame Middletown Howe Caverns Newburgh Fort Stanwix Niagara Falls Plattsburgh Fort Ticonderoga Poughkeepsie Fort Ontario Rochester Rome Fort Niagara Saratoga Springs Finger Lakes Schenectady Farmers' Museum Syracuse Albany Turning Stone Resort & Casino Auburn Syracuse Thousand Islands Sylvan Beach Binghamton Soccer Hall of Fame Buffalo Seabreeze Amusement Park Cortland Saratoga Race Course Elmira Niagara Falls Glens Falls Letchworth State Park Ithaca Lake Placid Jamestown Lake George Kingston International Boxing Hall of Fame Middletown Howe Caverns Newburgh Fort Stanwix Niagara Falls Plattsburgh Fort Ticonderoga Poughkeepsie Fort Ontario Rochester Rome Fort Niagara Saratoga Springs Finger Lakes Schenectady Farmers' Museum Syracuse Erie Canal Troy Darien Lake Utica Watertown Corning Museum of Glass Adirondack Mountains Catskill Mountains Ausable Chasm Baseball Hall of Fame Albany Turning Stone Resort & Casino Auburn Syracuse Thousand Islands Sylvan Beach Binghamton Soccer Hall of Fame Buffalo Seabreeze Amusement Park Cortland Saratoga Race Course Elmira Niagara Falls Glens Falls Letchworth State Park Ithaca Lake Placid Jamestown Lake George Kingston International Boxing Hall of Fame Middletown Howe Caverns Newburgh Fort Stanwix Niagara Falls Plattsburgh Fort Ticonderoga Poughkeepsie Fort Ontario Rochester Rome Fort Niagara Saratoga Springs Finger Lakes Schenectady Farmers' Museum Syracuse Erie Canal Troy Darien Lake Utica Watertown Corning Museum of Glass Adirondack Mountains Catskill Mountains Ausable Chasm Baseball Hall of Fame Albany Turning Stone Resort & Casino Auburn Syracuse Thousand Islands Sylvan Beach Binghamton Soccer Hall of Fame Buffalo Seabreeze Amusement Park Cortland Saratoga Race Course Elmira Niagara Falls Glens Falls Letchworth State Park Ithaca Lake Placid Jamestown Lake George

 

 

We Upstate

I love that orange and blue is a fashionable color scheme, no matter the occasion.

Ryan Delaney, Innovation Trail reporter, WRVO Syracuse

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I love upstate for the beautiful countryside, the short commutes and the considerate drivers.

Ken Campbell, WSKG Binghamton

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Roses are red, Violets are blue,

We're New York too, you rat bastards.@devmorgan, via Twitter

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Not surprisingly, we love CNY because of the quantity & high quality of arts & culture here. We're so lucky!

@SyrArts, via Twitter

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I love upstate New York for its forests, fields & flowers, mountains & valleys, rock & soil, lakes, rivers & streams.

@Lynn4MK, via Twitter

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Upstate has amazing wineries that are well-known around the country.Cara, via Facebook

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Let us count the ways: Something to do in every season, great NNY communities & neighbors, visiting our Canadian friends, terrific business partners for our students, four seasons of fun in Adirondacks ... a great place to live, work & learn!

@ClarksonUniv, via Twitter

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I love the [Syracuse] Regional Market and the locavore movement. It is incredibly inspiring to have a group of people advocating good health, knowledge regarding consumption, responsibility to the earth and development of a community.

Mariah, from Syracuse

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I love upstate’s waterfront! Miles and miles of shoreline along Lake Erie, the Niagara River and Lake Ontario. Beautiful vistas, great recreational opportunities and yes … awesome lake effect snow storms. The only thing better than living near a Great Lake is living near two Great Lakes.

Jim Ranney, WNED Buffalo

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What I love most about upstate is that amazing moment when winter has melted away, and the signs of spring are everywhere: the snowdrops and crocuses in our front yard, the sound of song birds as they return, and the gentle green haze of buds that covers our trees.

Julie Figueras, WXXI Rochester

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I have four letters that explain a lot of what I love about Upstate NY: W - R - V - O.

@brianfay, via Twitter

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Love is complicated and so is upstate. Love can bring the highest highs and the lowest lows and so can upstate. Love is beautiful but can sting at any time with heartbreak. Upstate is pretty much the same as that.

Daniel Robison, Innovation Trail reporter, WNED Buffalo

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I love the outdoors of upstate – beautiful mountains, lakes, and rivers.

Marie Cusick, Innovation Trail reporter, WMHT Albany

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I love apples straight off the tree and walking around Green Lakes State Park.Durrie, from Syracuse

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[Upstate towns], partly decayed and yet still quite beautiful, have a transparent relationship to history: so much of the past is still visible in their ruins and remnants.

Dana Spiotta, New York Times, June 10,

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I love its lakes and other outdoorsy things. And Wegmans. Diane, from Albany

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Happy Valentine’s Day, upstate!

With love,

InnovationTrail.orgPublic media reporting on the economy and technology in upstate New York