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Easy day trips from Buffalo (1 to 2 hours):
- Toronto, Finger Lakes, Allegheny Mountains (NY and PA), Lake Chautauqua/Chautauqua Institute, Southern Tier (Corning, Watkins Glen, etc).
Even closer, can come and go for lunch if you want without taking a whole day (1 hour or less):
- Niagara Falls, Niagara Gorge, Niagara-On-The-Lake, Western Finger Lakes, Letchworth Falls and Gorge, Rochester, Zoar Valley, Niagara Wine Trail, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario (beaches, boating, cottages, resorts, in both US and Canada), WNY ski country (several), hunting/camping/fishing in Southern Erie, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties
I recently visited some family in Ohio and we drove from the west side of Dayton to the east side of Columbus, which was about an hour drive. The entire time my SIL kept saying, "I'm sorry about such a long drive" (we were going to visit her daughter). I was surprised by this because that's considered a "nothing" drive around here! LOL
But maybe she's just unusual, I don't know.
By the way, I think that region of Ohio is gorgeous. Love all the farms and farmhouses.
I’d say around 2.5 hours or so from Syracuse. So, that includes the 1000 Islands, the Finger Lakes, the Adirondacks, the Poconos, Niagara Falls, state parks like Letchworth and Watkins Glen; the bigger Upstate cities, smaller places like Cooperstown, Corning, Old Forge, etc.; Kingston ON(Canada) and more.
You can have occasional trips to NYC(about 4 hours) for sporting events(say a Saturday 1 PM Yankee game) where you leave early and come back later that night. Similar for say Boston or Philadelphia as well.
As far as St Louis, common day trips include: Johnson Shut-ins State Park, historic Ste Genevieve and Hannibal, Hermann’s wine country, Shawnee National Forest, and Pere Marquette Park. One-way distance from STL ranges from one to 2 1/2 hours.
In Albuquerque it is the Jemez Mountains just north of our northern suburbs in Sandoval County. It offers pretty much every desert, mountain and forest activity you can think of, from hiking to fishing to hunting and camping. It's a very popular day trip as well as weekend getaway for those in the city.
A nice overview of the variety of landscapes found in the Jemez area of metro Albuquerque, everything from red rock desert scenery to thick forests to hot spring-fed lakes and rivers:
Atlantans are taking more weekend getaways to Columbus, GA due to Columbus now having urban whitewater rafting right through its downtown, ziplining into Alabama, and great restaurants, hotels, etc. within walking distance.
If you're in the DC area, Pittsburgh, or Baltimore, the Wisp Resort/Deep Creek Lake area in McHenry, MD is nice and makes for a great, relaxing, trip anytime of the year.
One of my favorite things about living in New England thus far is just the abundance of outdoors options in both the summer and winter. Every weekend in the summer I tend to venture out to a new place or a place I haven't been to in several months just to get away for the day.
I believe you can be as far north as Portland, ME in 2 hours or less from Boston metro if you're looking to go to coastal towns. Portsmouth, NH, Newport RI, are a couple of others. Inland towards New Hampshire and/or Vermont in Ski territory within 2-3 hours or less. You also have the cape which can take up to 3 hours to get to the end in Provincetown but many great towns there as well. Connecticut has small towns that are great like New London, New Haven and Mystic that are nice as a getaway as well as casinos (if you dont prefer Encore in Boston) in a couple of Indian Reservations.
You can also get away to the Berkshires of Western Mass in roughly 2-3 hours or less as well as to Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island or many other islands if that's your perference.
Depending on where you're leaving from in the metro, you also have Upstate New York which is gorgeous in its own right with some great day trips to a lot of great vineyards.
yeah .. lots of great day trip options in New England . Im in Providence, and for a day trip Ill go as far as NYC, Portland , Provincetown, Martha's Vineyard, the Green Mountains, Berkshires, and anywhere in between
I've been to Cape Flattery at the northwestern corner of the Olympic Peninsula as a daytrip. 4 hours each way to/from Seattle. The Peninsula doesn't have a high density of towns or activities so I imagine other people sometimes make that drive.
Of course there will be traffic, but the route from Sacramento to Lake Tahoe is jam packed all throughout ski season, and yet some people drive back and forth every winter weekend.
Same on the Front Range. I-70 is a brick on winter weekends and a ninety minute drive can bump up to 2-3 hours if you don’t leave early enough.
Same on the Front Range. I-70 is a brick on winter weekends and a ninety minute drive can bump up to 2-3 hours if you don’t leave early enough.
Well, there's basically only one direct path between Sacramento and South Lake Tahoe, and it's only two lanes.
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