Arrive Early, Stay Late, and Have Fun!

ARRIVAL

Individual arrival to your hotel.  No airport transfers included.

HOTEL

Edison Hotel NYC

DINNER

Dinner on your own, with many wonderful options nearby.

Breakfast

Breakfast included at your hotel.

Morning

Meet your guide and board a luxury coach for touring New York City. We’ll cruise New York Harbor to see the Statue of Liberty and visit the Ellis Island Museum, the beginning of the immigrant journey for millions to America.

Lunch

Lunch on your own downtown.

Afternoon

Guided coach will tour throughout Manhattan and include the National 9/11 Memorial, Wall Street, and a walk in the High Line, a public park built on a historic freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan’s West Side.

Dinner

Dinner on your own

Hotel

Edison Hotel NYC

Breakfast

Breakfast included at the hotel before checking out and meeting our luxury coach for the next three days.

Morning

Travel north through the Hudson River Valley to Walkway Over the Hudson State Park for sweeping, majestic views of the Hudson River. This steel cantilever bridge was built in 1889 and served as a railroad bridge before being transformed into the world’s longest elevated pedestrian bridge.

Lunch

Lunch will be on your own in the quaint Village of Rhinebeck, with plenty of options for dining and shopping.

Afternoon

Tour the Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site in Hyde Park, the home, library, archives, gardens and grounds of the 32nd and longest-serving president of the United States. Like his cousin Theodore, FDR was a big booster of the canal system when he was governor of New York. He toured the Erie Canal in 1930 on board the state boat Inspector II.

Hotel

The Hampton Inn Downtown Albany

Dinner

Check out one of Albany’s craft breweries located in the city’s former Lumber District where canal barges stacked with lumber unloaded or prepared for the journey down the Hudson River.

Breakfast

Breakfast is included at the hotel before checking out.

Morning

Travel to Rome where water has played a central role in shaping the area for centuries. We’ll visit Fort Stanwix National Monument, a 1777 frontier fort that tells stories of the nations that fought for control of the Oneida Carrying Place, Mohawk Valley, homelands of the Six Nations Confederacy, and the rich resources of North America. Digging for the Erie Canal began in the same location in 1817.

Lunch

Lunch on your own at Salt City Market, where regional and international food and culture come together with a mix of vendors sharing a common space with a casual, urban vibe.

Afternoon

Explore the Erie Canal Museum’s extensive collection and exhibits on all facets of the Erie Canal. Housed in the only remaining Weighlock Building (1850) where canal boats were weighed during the days when they traveled through the center of Syracuse on the Erie Canal.

We’ll top off the day with a craft beverage at one of Syracuse’s breweries.

Hotel

Doubletree Hotel, Syracuse

Dinner

Pheobe’s Restaurant

Breakfast

Breakfast is included at the hotel before checking out.

Morning

Visit the birthplace of the women’s rights movement in the historic canal town of Seneca Falls. Tour Women’s Right’s National Historical Park and other area attractions and stroll along the canal promenade.

Lunch

Lunch on your own in Seneca Falls.

Afternoon

Get on the water for a sightseeing cruise and experience going through a lock on the Cayuga-Seneca Canal.

We’ll then head to Ganondagan State Historic Site, the original site of a 17th century Native American town. Spanning 569 acres, Ganondagan (Gah-nun-dah-gan) features culture, art, agriculture, and government of the Seneca nation and how they influenced our modern understanding of equality, democratic government, women’s rights, and ecology.

Tour End

The tour concludes in Buffalo at our conference hotel, the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.

Afternoon, 2pm

Our afternoon will be filled with art, architecture, and culture as we tour Frank Lloyd Wright’s Darwin Martin House and visit the Buffalo AKG Art Museum’s unforgettable art collection.

Dinner

You’ll return to the Hyatt around 6:30 for dinner on your own

Morning

Depart the Hyatt at 8:30am for travel to St. Catherines, Canada. Hike at Mountain Locks to view abandoned locks of the Second Welland Canal, built from 1840-1845.

Lunch

Lunch in Merriton

Afternoon

Walking tour of Port Dalhousie followed by spectacular views of Niagara Falls from the Canadian side and dinner in Niagara Falls.

Hotel

Hyatt Regency Buffalo