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Albany NY Tourism and Sightseeing
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Where is Albany New York?
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Albany New York
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Albany New York Tourism At a GlanceBest Time to Visit Albany New York
Horse racing at the Saratoga racecourse runs from July through Labor Day weekend. You can catch the Capital District Scottish Games annually each Labor Day weekend. Over Memorial Weekend, youll find the Saratoga Festival and craft show and dressage event. During the entire summer, the Albany Trolley runs weekend tours through the Historic District. The Great Escape and Watersplash Kingdom, a Six Flags theme park, is open during the summer months. Numerous historic homes and the state capital are worth visiting any time of the year. Click Here to find hotels in Albany. If you need additional visitor information for Albany, Click Here. Average Albany Weather
Brrr-rrr! Button up if you are in Albany during January - the coldest months temperatures average lows of 11 degrees Fahrenheit and highs in the 30s. Average January precipitation is around 2.5 inches of the snow. December and February are almost as cold. Spring and fall temperatures average in the 40s and 50s with the occasional cold snap or unseasonably warm day. Summer in Albany is almost always pleasant with averages ranging from the high 60s to mid-70s. Even in August, the hottest month, highs only hit the low 80s. Transportation
The Albany International Airport is serviced by six major carriers; AMTRAK trains arrive daily at three regional depots. Enterprise Car Rental has an Albany outlet. Capital District Transportation Authority provides bus services throughout the area; they can be reached at 518-482-8822. Yellow Cab can be reached at 518-434-2222. In-Season Costs
As the capital of the Empire State, Albany has her fair share of establishments suitable for a blowout night out. You can easily spend around $40 per person on an evening meal with wine in a nice restaurant. Youll also find an array of eateries with entrees in the $11-$18 range. Expect to pay around $60 for a budget room and $100 to $110 for a moderately nice room. While you are in Albany expect to spend around $10 to $20 daily on admissions and sightseeing. New York Tourism - Albany Attractions, Activities and Day Trips
Howe Caverns is 200 feet underground, along a subterranean lake. The main cavern follows a stream called the River Styx for a mile and a half including enormous chambers and a stalagmite a half-million years old. The attraction has wide, smooth paths with handrails and powerful lighting and narrow pathways. Howe Caverns in Howes Cave, New York, is 37 miles west of Albany New York, located off state Route 7 between Cobleskill and Central Bridge and is visible from Interstate 88. Howe Caverns is open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. June 29 through Labor Day, and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. the rest of the year. Further information is available by calling (518) 296-8900.
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Things to do in Albany NY, Sightseeing and Albany NY Tourism
Albany NY Tourism - Planning an Albany NY Vacation
Below is a list of Albany NY tourist attractions, activities, events, hotels, restaurants and visitor information entries to help you plan an Albany NY Vacation! Find detailed information on the Albany NY tourism entries by clicking on their links. Narrow your search by selecting from a specific Albany NY travel category on the left hand menu.
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You can find New York tourist attractions and activities in all of New York's regions: Albany, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Finger Lakes, Ithaca, Jamaica, Lake George, Lake Placid, New York City, Niagara Falls, Rochester, Syracuse and Other.
Fun Things to do during your Albany NY Vacation - Top Albany NY Tourist Attractions and Activities
Some of the most popular Albany NY tourist attractions that list on our site include National Bottle Museum , Saratoga National Historical Park and Martin Van Buren National Historic Site.
Fun activities in Albany NY include Regal Crossgates Stadium 18 & IMAX, Albany Carriage Service - Horse Drawn Carriage and Colonie Center.
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Colonie Center
Shopping Mall - The destination that's always in style
Category: Albany Shopping in New York
Description of this Albany Activity: L.L. Bean, Sephora, Macy's, Bath and Body Works, Barnes & Noble, Gap, Aeropostale, Sears, Boscov's, Victoria's Secret, The Cheesecake Factory, movie theater, and more!
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Albany Institute of History and Art
Collecting, preserving, interpreting, and promoting...
Category: Albany Art Museum in New York
Description of this Albany Attraction: Founded in 1791, the Albany Institute of History & Art, one of the oldest museums in the United States, is dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting and promoting interest in the history, art and culture of Albany and the Upper Hudson Valley. The museum achieves this mission through its collections, exhibitions, education programs, library, research projects, publications and other programs offered to the general public.
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National Bottle Museum
Preserving the history of America's first major industry
Category: Ballston Spa Museum near Albany, New York
Description of this Albany area Attraction: The National Bottle Museum is located on Rte. 50 in the heart of the village of Ballston Spa, New York. The museum occupies a three-story brick commercial building in the historic business district of what was once a flourishing resort community in the 1800s. Ballston Spa is the site of many once-famous mineral springs and was a popular “watering hole” for the rich and famous during the hey day of the mineral water industry.
No longer advertised or widely marketed as cures, only two mineral water springs continue to flow in the village. The Sans Souci flows freely during the summer months, and the Old Iron Spring flows year round. Both are within a short walking distance from the museum, and the museum stands directly across the street from where the world famous Sans Souci Hotel once stood.
The village itself has been aptly described as an outdoor museum of architecture. Many of the beautiful Victorian homes are being appropriately restored to their former grandeur, and are emerging once again as “painted ladies” of the past.
The museum’s mission is to preserve the history of our nations first major industry: bottle making. Millions of glass bottles per year were manufactured by hand for the mineral waters of Saratoga County alone, enabling the area to participate in world commerce during the early 1800s. A glassworks set in the wilderness above the nearby town of Greenfield employed hundreds of workers and glassblowers from the 1840s to the 1860s. In that era, all bottles were manufactured exclusively with hand tools and lung power.
The world-wide mineral water industry was just one of many industries creating a tremendous demand for glass bottles. America was the world's largest producer of fine essence oils. The west was being settled, creating a demand for millions of whiskey flasks and spirits bottles to help men cope with loneliness and hardship. Every pharmacy, every producer of patent medicines, every brewery, dairy farm and manufacturer, required hand-made glass bottles. Machine made bottles were not manufactured until after Michael Owens patented his inventions in 1903.
Well planned museum exhibits allow visitors to view a myriad variety of beautiful and colorful glass bottles produced by strong men who toiled in intense heat for twelve hours a day, six days a week. The demand for glass containers was staggering. It was an era when vast commercial empires rose and fell. In many cases, only the glass bottles remain as witness to the drama.
One entire wall of the museum's first floor is covered with approximately 2000 bottles of many colors, shapes and forms. This is considered "open storage," and all of these bottles are accessioned into the collection to be held in trust for the public. When creating interpretive exhibits, borrowed bottles and related objects are often combined with those from the collection. In some cases, all exhibit objects may be borrowed. The museum has access to collections all over the United States, and borrowing objects from members makes frequent changes and more spectacular exhibits possible.
The latest museum program is the development of a "Museum Glassworks." A separate building in close proximity to the museum has been purchased and equipped with torches and hand tools for teaching lampworking, a process of working with glass rods and tubing to create smaller objects from hot glass. Classes are available, contact the museum for information.
Current members of the museum reside in all
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New York State Museum
Explores the cultural & natural history of NY State
Category: Albany Museum in New York
Description of this Albany Attraction: Welcome to “A History of the New York State Museum.” The New York State Museum, located in the capital city of Albany, New York, is a major research and educational institution that, by law, conducts systematic investigations into the geology, biology, anthropology and history of New York. It is mandated to disseminate the results of this work through its educational and advisory services to benefit the economy, environment, health and education of the people of the State. The Museum hosts more than 750,000 visitors each year, making it one of the largest cultural attractions in the state...
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