Akron+Canton


 * Travel tips for Akron/Canton:**
 * Akron Wikitravel Website:** []
 * Canton Wikitravel Website**: [])
 * Cleveland Wikitravel Website**: []
 * Cleveland Wikitravel Website**: []

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 * Mike Summers - August 2011**

I used Akron as a way to visit the Cleveland area. I like using Hotwire.com for booking a hotel. Here's a visitors guide website: []. The Cleveland Indians baseball park is Progressive Field. Here's directions to get there by car: [] and by public transit: []. Q Arena, home of the Cavaliers NBA Basketball Team is right next door. Browns Stadium is on the waterfront. Also in Cleveland near the ballpark is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: (Website: [] ). Here's some information about getting to the Rock Hall of Fame: (Website: [] ) which is located on E. 9th Avenue near Lake Erie. As for eating, just west of downtown is the Great Lakes Brewing Company (Website: [] ). Also Cleveland hosts its own Chophouse Restaurant just like the ones in Denver and Boulder (Website: [] ). Ten minutes directley south of the Canton-Akron Airport on Interstate 77 is the Pro Football Hall of Fame (Website: [] ) with its many items dedicated to football. Because of our flight schedule, you need to make this a one-night or two-night trip, but it's a fun place to visit. Enjoy! Mike Summers


 * Ann Rutkofsky - May 2012:**

My husband and I took a trip in early May, 2012, to New York State. We flew to Akron/Canton (Football Hall of Fame), drove a big loop to Cooperstown, NY (Baseball Hall of Fame (Website: [] )), Seneca Falls (Women's Rights Hall of Fame (Website: [] )), Niagara Falls (Website: [] ), and lastly to Cleveland (Rock & Roll Hall of Fame). It took 8 days and we had a great time. In Canton, we also visited McKinley's Presidential Library (Website: [] ). We also had some time to explore the Amish area around there - good food, shops, etc. After we left Akron, we spent a night in Jamestown, NY, which is the home of Lucille Ball - museum, etc. Website for Jamestown, NY: []. It is also just 6 miles from the original Chautauqua Institute, founded in 1874 - you may know of Chautauqua near Boulder (Website: [] ). The area between there and Cooperstown includes the Finger Lakes. We drove around Seneca Lake (Website for Finger Lakes: [] ). The southern tip is the site of the racetrack, Watkins Glen (Website: [] ). Seneca Falls, besides having a National Parks Museum for Women's Rights, is considered the town which Bedford Falls was patterned after in the movie, It's a Wonderful Life, with Jimmy Stewart. The area around Niagara Falls has become wine country. The falls are spectacular, but the actual town is very commercialized. A short distance north of it is a lovely little town called Niagara on the Lake - very picturesque (Website: []). We spent one night in Buffalo (Website: [] ) and went to a great place called Pearl St. Pub and Grill (Website: [] ) which has ties to the Wynkoop in Denver. Enjoy!

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