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Take a weekend to relax in the great outdoors, antique shops and theatres of the Central New York Region while the rest of the world scampers around the mall in a mad holiday dash. Get back to what the holidays are really all about – spending quality time with the ones you love.
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As the white stuff starts to fall, pack up the family for a trip to the Val Bialas Sports Center in Oneida County, which offers night skiing and a quaint ski chalet complete with snack bar and double-sided fireplace to beat frostbite. For the downhill ski lovers in your family, there are five trails at different degrees of difficulty, and for those who prefer tobogganing, a sledding hill. Or, ski for free on one of the largest groomed cross-country systems in the east (50km of trails!), the Black River Environment Improvement Association (B.R.E.I.A.) between the Adirondacks and the Tug Hill Plateau. |
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If you still have a couple people to cross off your holiday shopping list, try a one-stop shop that isn’t the mall and offers one-of-a-kind holiday gifts in Herkimer County. Visit Little Falls Antique Center, located in Canal Place along the Erie Canal, the same building as The Shops at 25 West, a unique venue with a little bit of everything under one roof. Decorative arts, jewelry, kitchen accessories, clothing, beauty products and home furnishings are just some of the wide variety of treats offered at this historic site.
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Plan a romantic evening around a show at the Oneonta Theatre in Otsego County. With its various events and musical and theatrical performances, the theatre has been "showing Oneonta a good time since 1897." While you’re in town, stop by the Fenimore Art Museum, one of the nation's premier art institutions and home to an exceptionally rich collection of American folk art and American Indian art. |
Featured Area
 With thousands of acres of forestland and plenty of wildlife, "Walking in a winter wonderland" is taken to a whole new level in Chenango County. Bring the hikers, cross-country skiers, equestrians and snowmobilers in your family to Brookfield State Forest, where a 130-mile horse and snowmobile trail system navigates across 13,000 acres of Beaver Creek, Brookfield Railroad and Charles E. Baker State Forests. Keep trailblazing with a trip along the 562.9-mile Finger Lakes Trail, which extends from the New York-Pennsylvania border from Allegany State Park in northwest Pennsylvania to Catskill Park in eastern New York. There is an additional 236 miles of trails which branch off from the main trail, including a 12-mile stretch known as the Interloken Trail, going through the Finger Lakes National Forest.
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Events
Nov 25 – Jan 2
Roberson Home for the Holidays, Greater Binghamton
Dec 1 – Jan 2
Festival of Trees in Blenheim, Schoharie County
Dec 11
Victorian Christmas Open House, Madison County
Did You Know?
The Central New York Region offers special holiday train rides this time of year. Live the magic of the classic Polar Express story with the Adirondack Scenic Railroad from Utica to Holland Patent, or take a ride with the big man himself aboard the Leatherstocking Railway Historical Society’s Santa Claus Express in Cooperstown
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