About Saratoga Springs
Ranked in the Top 10 places to visit in the state of New York, Saratoga Springs is a historic city with a vibrant, walkable downtown surrounded by handsome Victorian neighborhoods and public green space. While you’re in town for the inauguration, a featured highlight of the college’s All College Conference, we encourage you to explore the city, browse on and off Broadway, take advantage of outstanding informal and formal dining options, and taste the natural sparkling waters that have drawn people to the area for more than 200 years.
Saratoga Springs lives up to its reputation as an eclectic cultural center in upstate New York, offering fine arts in museums and galleries and the performing arts on stage. If you are staying overnight, consider an evening at Caffé Lena, the oldest continuously operating coffeehouse in the United States, or the newly restored Universal Preservation Hall, visit the Saratoga Arts Gallery or one of several private galleries on and off Broadway, or enjoy the offerings of several museums.
Museums abound in this city of 28,000. Stop in at Canfield Casino in Congress Park and tour the Saratoga Springs History Museum. Travel to the beautiful Saratoga Spa State Park on the southern edge of the city and visit the Saratoga Automobile Museum, located adjacent to the grounds of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Don’t miss the National Museum of Racing just up Union Avenue from the headquarters of Empire State College and across the street from the famed Saratoga Race Course, home to the oldest thoroughbred stakes race in America, or take in the exhibits at the New York State Military Museum on Lake Avenue.
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