The Great New York State Fair!!

It's time again for the NYS Fair!! 

The 2015 New York State Fair is from Thursday, August 27 through Labor Day, Monday, September 7.

The New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse, NY is adjacent to Route 690 West. The Fairgrounds is accessible from the New York State Thruway, exit 39 (from the West) and 34A (from the East), and Route 81 from the North and South. 

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THE GREAT NYS FAIR

Finger Lakes trail pictures with free camping and lean-to's. Take your horse with you. Also, there are handicapped accessible trails available. 

 You can go to the top of this fire tower.

 The flush toilets.

 Outdoor sink and water fountain.

Map of Six Nation Trails.

Fire tower.

Picnic area.

Camping area.

Horse Stalls.

Horse Stalls, you can also tie them up at your campsite.

The trail.

Outhouse near the lean-to's.

One of the lean-to's.

Inside the lean-to.

Lean-to.

One of the horse trails.

Here is the location, see map below:

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Now go check out the DEC page for Sugar Hill State Forest.

Mennonite Heritage Farm Zwanzigstein Fest

On the first Saturday in July, the Mennonite Heritage Farm in Croghan holds its annual 20 stones Zwanzigstein Fest. We just happened to see the advertisement in the local pennysaver when we were in Canton during our camping trip. Saturday, July 5th, we went to this festival. It was a lot of fun! It was very reasonably priced- $4.00 for adults and my 5 yr old granddaughter was free. It includes all but the food. It even includes horse and carriage rides. They had all kinds of activities going on, and you could go through the house and barns and see all the old things in use. (They are also open at other times too.) The farm is open during July and August, hours vary. Call 315-346-1122, 315-853-6879 or 315-376-8502. It is located at 8778 Erie Canal Rd, Croghan, NY.
My only complaint was that they served 2 different dinners, one a meatloaf dinner and the other a cold plate dinner which contained cold meat and pasta salad. Being vegetarian, I wanted to get the meatloaf dinner without the meat-(it had lots of other good stuff like potatoes and corn)-instead substituting the pasta salad for the meat. The woman serving the dinner said no, you have to have one or the other. I didn't really see what it would hurt to have substituted pasta salad for the meatloaf, but she would not do it. They were both right there to scoop onto the plates. It's not like they were premade or anything. I was willing to pay the higher price for the meat loaf dinner. She was not real pleasant either. They had a lot of meatless food so I just made do with that. But they would have sold another dinner if she had been more accomodating.

Oh well, everyone else there was great and very friendly! I highly recommend going there. In the fall is the Apple Fest, I'm going to try to go to that too!