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Last Update: 19 February 2008
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For other useful links, see:
Erie County.
(Map of Erie County)
The
UB North (a.k.a. Amherst)
Campus is in the
Town of Amherst,
a suburb northeast of
the City
of Buffalo.
Also in Amherst are the communities of
Getzville
(northeast of campus) and
Eggertsville,
Snyder, and
the Village of
Williamsville
(south and east of campus).
(Erie County outline map)
The Town of Clarence is a suburb east of Amherst.
The Town of Tonawanda, separated from Amherst by Niagara Falls Boulevard, is west of campus; the City of Kenmore is in Tonawanda.
The Town of Cheektowaga is a suburb south of campus and east of Buffalo; the airport is here. The Village of Depew is in Cheektowaga, southeast of the airport.
The UB South (a.k.a. Main Street) Campus is in Buffalo proper, at the northeast corner of the city, about 3 miles southwest of the Amherst Campus (hence its name).
Also in Buffalo is Buff State (i.e., SUNY College at Buffalo, not to be confused with UB), on Elmwood Avenue across from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, west of Delaware Park (one of Olmstead's creations, by the way, and the location of the Buffalo Zoo) and Shakespeare in Delaware Park.
"Allentown" is a historic district of antiques shops, art galleries, mansions, and Victorian houses, about 2 miles south of Buff State and 1 mile north of downtown Buffalo
The Village of Akron is in the Town of Newstead, just to the east of Clarence. It is the home of Perry's Ice Cream.
Blasdell, East Aurora, Elma, Hamburg, Lackawanna, Orchard Park, and West Seneca are suburbs south of Buffalo.
Cattaraugus County
(south of Erie County, in the
Southern Tier):
Perrysburg
Chautauqua
County (southwest of Erie County, in the
Southern Tier):
Fredonia
(home of SUNY Fredonia),
in the northern part of the county,
is about an hour's drive
southwest of Buffalo on the Thruway.
link:
Jamestown,
in the southern part
(and about a half-hour's drive from the
Chautauqua Institution),
is
about an hour and a half from Buffalo. It is, among many other things,
the home of the
Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center,
since Jamestown is where Lucy was born,
and nearby Celoron is where she grew up.
Lockport (site of an Erie Canal lock) is about 15 minutes north of the UB Amherst Campus.
Middleport is another Erie Canal village.
Sanborn, in the town of Lewiston, is home of Niagara Community College.
Youngstown (site of Old Fort Niagara) is about 15 minutes from Artpark.
Alfred, at the eastern end of the county, is the home of Alfred State College and Alfred University.
Childs is "the heart of Cobblestone Country".
Beamsville is west of Niagara-on-the-Lake (and east of Grimsby).
Fonthill is "approximately 15 minutes off the Niagara wine bench, and within easy driving distance from Niagara-on-the-Lake, St. Catharines and Niagara Falls, Ontario."
Fort Erie is across the Peace Bridge, about 10 minutes from downtown Buffalo.
Jordan is about an hour from Buffalo.
St. Catharines is about a 45-minute drive from the Peace Bridge.
Niagara Falls, Ontario (home of Niagara Falls, of course), is across the Niagara River from Niagara Falls, NY. (For more on this area, see the webpage Destination Niagara.)
Niagara-on-the-Lake (home of the Shaw Festival) is about an hour's drive north of Buffalo; the prettiest way to get there (or to Niagara Falls, for that matter) is to cross the Peace Bridge and drive up the Niagara Parkway.
Port Dalhousie is on the southern shore of Lake Ontario, west of Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Ridgeway is west of Ft. Erie.
Stratford, the home of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, is about a 2-hour drive from Buffalo.
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