Top Things to do in Finger Lakes
Top Hotels in Finger Lakes
- 1. Holiday Inn & Suites Syracuse Airport - Liverpool, an IHG Hotel
- 2. Watkins Glen Harbor Hotel
- 3. Country Inn & Suites by Radisson, Rochester-Pittsford/Brighton, NY
- 4. Hampton Inn & Suites Syracuse North Airport Area
- 5. The Statler Hotel at Cornell University
- 6. La Tourelle Hotel, Bistro, Spa
- 7. Best Western Brockport Inn & Suites
- 8. Hampton Inn & Suites Syracuse Dewitt
- 9. The Craftsman Inn & Suites
- 10. Comfort Inn & Suites
The 10 Best Cemeteries in Finger Lakes, Finger Lakes
New York’s Finger Lakes region takes its name from 11 freshwater lakes placed like a handprint between Lake Ontario and the Pennsylvania border. Skiing, hiking and biking trails traverse the landscape; visitors can also indulge in various wine, cheese and beer trails. The area offers a culinary bounty, with an emphasis on farm-to-table cuisine. Rich history and culture are found throughout the region, with one attraction more inviting than the next.
Restaurants in Finger Lakes
1. Lake View Cemetery
2. Woodlawn National Cemetery
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 31 reviews
Reviewed By PeterG756 - Buffalo, United States
Visiting here was a very moving experience. All the white headstones are lined up in orderly rows, magnificent. This is NOT to be confused with Woodlawn cemetery where Mark Twain is buried despite other reviews saying so. This is a National veterans cemetery right next to the other one. There are over 2,500 confederate soldiers buried here among the 10,000 + graves. They were victims of poor conditions and over crowding at the Elmira Prison during the civil war. The cemetery is excellently maintained.
3. Bath National Cemetery
4. Mount Hope Cemetery
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 464 reviews
Mount Hope, dedicated in 1838, is America's first municipal Victorian Cemetery. Set in a picturesque landscape shaped by retreating glaciers, the cemetery contains priceless pieces of art and rare horticultural specimens. It is the final resting place of many dignified and internationally known individuals, including Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, and is on the National Park Services National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Mount Hope is listed in the New York State Register of Historic Places and National Register of Historic Places as part of the Mt. Hope/Highland Preservation District, featuring 83 mausoleums, soaring Egyptian obelisks, a Florentine cast-iron fountain, two stone chapels in the Gothic Revival style, a Moorish gazebo, a Victorian Gothic gatehouse, and infinitely varied tombstones marking 350,000 graves across 196 acres.
Reviewed By Creeping_Death_LA - Los Angeles, United States
Despite the famous people that are buried here this is one beautiful cemetery. I love visiting these old historic place for the incredible artwork on the headstones. The area with all the trees and hills makes it even better to walk along and get lost in its beauty.
5. Woodlawn Cemetery of Elmira
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 104 reviews
Reviewed By youthgoes - Lewisburg, United States
A beautiful cemetery! Stopped in while I was in Elmira for the day. Of particular note are the graves of Hal Roach, creator of the Little Rascals, and director of Laurel and Hardy’s early films, and of prolific American writer Mark Twain, norm Samuel Clemens, and his wife and family. Well worth a stop to pay tribute.
6. Oakwood Cemetery
7. Fort Hill Cemetery
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 65 reviews
Reviewed By pamelab147 - Grand Island, United States
We went in just to see Seward and Tubman’s graves. We took a picture of the map at the entrance and that made it easy to find the plots. Well maintained and worth the trip in. Such a historical place.
8. Mark Twain's Grave
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 32 reviews
Reviewed By michaelpH2708QB - Collinsville, United States
Mark Twain’s grave is clearly marked how to get to it before you even enter the cemetery. Very nice. Easy to fine. In a beautiful cemetery.
9. Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 3 reviews
Reviewed By BillK455 - Spencerport, United States
I was reading up on the cemetery and found out that silent film star Mary Louise Brooks (Pandora's Box, Diary Of A Lost Girl) and had to go find it. It took a bit but I was lucky to stumble the basic stone but it was sort of exciting. A lot of famous people are buried here including Walter E Wegman (of grocery store fame), Assunta Cantisano (Ragu spaghetti sauce), Colonel Patrick Henry O’Rorke (led heroic charge over Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg), baseball player Charles “Red” Dooin, Henry E. Gillette (60th Mayor of Rochester), detective writer Edward Hoch, Francis Tumblety (Jack the Ripper suspect) and many more politicians, artists, sports figures, business men, military men, religious leaders, etc. The place is beautiful to drive around with many old monuments and grave stones, beautiful chapels/mausoleums, ponds, trees and wildlife. We saw about 6 deer wandering through the cemetery and just loved the natural beauty in parts the expansive grounds. While Mt Hope gets most of the attention, this place might surpass in the overall scope of the grounds and people buried here.
10. Cortland Rural Cemetery
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 12 reviews
Located just moments from the heart of the Cortland, NY, the Cortland Rural Cemetery gently rises northward from historic Tompkins Street. The site features 50 acres of winding drives, walking trails, interpretive signs, and labeled trees ~ amid islands of individual graves, family mausoleums, and monument groupings, and honoring the original, 19th century concept of a "rural cemetery."
