Top Regions of the Empire State

(Pictures and places in bold are places I have been to.)

10. Central Leatherstocking

- - Oneida – Oneida Community Mansion House
  - Fort Stanwix National Monument
  - National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown
  - Erie Canal Village in Rome
  - Hercules Candies in East Syracuse

9. The Catskills

- - Kaaterskill Falls Trail (2.6 miles)
  - North-South Lake – Artist’s Rock, Sunset Rock, and Newman’s Ledge via Mary’s Glen Trail (4.6 miles)
  - Overlook Mountain Trail (4.6 miles)
  - Minnewaska State Park Preserve
  - Historic Huguenot Street National Historic Landmark District in New Paltz

8. Long Island

- - Fire Island National Seashore
  - The Hamptons
  - Old Westbury Gardens – Gilded Age estate
  - Montauk Point Lighthouse
  - Sagamore Hill National Historic Site – Theodore Roosevelt’s “Summer White House”

7. Thousand Islands

- - Boldt Castle and Yacht House
  - Heart Island
  - Thousand Islands
  - Thousand Islands Bridge
  - Antique Boat Museum

6. Hudson River Valley

- - Thomas Cole National Historic Site (Hudson River School painter)
  - Olana State Historic Site (Frederic Edwin Church estate and painter studio)
  - Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites in Hyde Park – Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, & Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site
  - Appalachian Trail – Harriman State Park, Bear Mountain State Park, & Fahnestock State Park
  - Sleepy Hollow – Sleepy Hollow Road, Washington Irving Grave at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, & Old Dutch Reformed Church

5. Capital-Saratoga

- - Saratoga National Historical Park
  - Downtown Albany – New York State Capitol, Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site, Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza & The Egg performing arts complex
  - Shaker Heritage Society
  - Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
  - Saratoga Springs

4. Finger Lakes

- - Women’s Rights National Historical Park
  - Harriet Tubman National Historical Park
  - Letchworth State Park
  - Watkins Glen State Park
  - Corning Museum of Glass

3. Adirondacks (a state park, but considered a forest preserve, and its land is intermixed with private land and towns)

- - Algonquin Peak
  - Saranac Lake
  - Lake George
  - White Pine Camp (summer White House of President Calvin Coolidge)
  - Northern Forest Canoe Trail (Adirondacks and further east)

- - Niagara Falls State Park
  - Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor
  - Downtown Buffalo
  - Buffalo Waterfront
  - Fort Niagara State Park (former Father Millet Cross National Monument)

- - Statue of Liberty, Statue of Liberty National Monument (a World Heritage Site)
  - Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty National Monument (World Heritage Tentative List)
  - Brooklyn Bridge (World Heritage Tentative List)
  - Central Park (World Heritage Tentative List)
  - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (part of the Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings World Heritage Site)

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1. 1. New York City
  2. Buffalo
  3. Rochester
  4. Albany (state capital)
  5. Syracuse

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