Lake Erie

Buffalo, the second-largest city in New York, is situated on the border between the United States and Canada along the shores of Lake Erie. The city's Canalside Buffalo waterfront development (pictured), which organizes significant concerts in the summer and provides ice bikes in the winter, is a great place to have lakeside fun. Visit Buffalo's thriving independent theater scene or attend a Broadway touring production at the lavish Shea's Performing Arts Center, which was inspired by European opera houses.

In its 4,000-year-old history, numerous ships have drowned in these waters, making Lake Erie one of the top diving locations in New York State. Visitors take part in common water sports such as boating, fishing, swimming, and kayaking above the surface. Summertime pastimes are replaced by skating, cross-country skiing, ice fishing, and snowmobiling throughout the winter.

Enjoy a glass of wine beachside in Lake Erie Wine Country, one of the top off-the-radar wine districts in the U.S., and experience another side of New York's Lake Erie coastline. Follow the lake's shoreline to the Dunkirk Lighthouse, a historically significant operating lighthouse with a marine museum on site.

Location: on the border between the United States and Canada