GLIN==> Press release: Announcing the 2010 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Travel Guide

PRESS RELEASE: May 12, 2010
Contact: Teresa Mitchell, 315-646-1000
Jpg (also available in high res): The 2010 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Travel
Guide celebrates the 518-mile America¹s Byway journey along the freshwater
shoreline of New York and Pennsylvania.

Announcing the 2010 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Travel Guide
 
Sackets Harbor, NY ­  In your time, at your pace, in your style ‹ that is
how the 2010 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Travel Guide invites readers to
experience the freshwater shoreline of New York and Pennsylvania. With a
bold new look, the full-color magazine is creating excitement about
traveling the 518-mile America¹s Byway that includes such iconic
destinations at Niagara Falls and the 1000 Islands.
 
The cover photos feature:
·      a little girl building a sand castle at Sandy Island Beach State
Park; 
·      the Flagship Niagara whose home port is Erie, PA;
·      Niagara Falls¹ Cave of the Winds;
·      relaxing by a campfire along Lake Ontario; and
·      a 1000 Islands boat tour.
 
The magazine features articles on A Taste of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail²
culinary delights, how to discover geocaching on the new Great Lakes Seaway
Trail GeoTrail, following the trail of 100-some Great Lakes Seaway Trail
³Outdoor Storytellers;² an historical perspective on Fort de La
Presentation, Fort Levis and the Battle of the Thousand Islands; and
descriptions of the fabulous attractions in the five breakout segments of
the byway:
·      Lake Erie
·      Buffalo/Niagara Falls
·      Central Lake Ontario and Rochester
·      Eastern Lake Ontario
·      1000 Islands and the St. Lawrence River.
 
The calendar of more than 110 listings includes everything from fishing
derbies and wildlife festivals to art extravaganzas, food and wine tastings,
tall ship visits, county fairs, and historical reenactments, including the
July 3-5 French and Indian War event at Old Fort Niagara in Youngstown and
the New York State Signature Event commemorating the 250th Anniversary of
the French and Indian War at Ogdensburg, NY, on July 16-18.
 
Other features of the guide include GPS coordinates for the Great Lakes
Seaway Trail ³Outdoor Storyteller² interpretive signs, a map, and a
directory of accommodations, restaurants, attractions and services.
 
The 2010 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Travel Guide is available at sites
Trailwide, at the Great Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center in Sackets
Harbor, NY, and online at http://www.seawaytrail.com/travelmagazine.
 
This travel guide is published by the nonprofit Great Lakes Seaway Trail,
Great Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center, Ray & West Main Streets, PO Box
660, Sackets Harbor, NY 13685, 315-646-1000. #
 
Snippets from the 2010 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Travel Guide
·       Did You KnowŠ the Great Lakes Seaway Trail travel experience
includes such architectural treasures as several Frank Lloyd Wright
properties?
 
·       What do walleyes, wings, and wild edibles have in common? They are
just a few of the unique culinary experiences available along the 518 miles
of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail ­ writes Sandra Scott, a travel writer based
in Mexico, NY.

·       Lake Erie supports a marvelous sportfishery. Pennsylvania State
Fisheries Biologist Chuck Murray says, ³We are seeing anglers catching 4-5
yellow perch per hour.²

·       As you motor toward the City of Buffalo, pause 30 miles southeast in
East Aurora where Elbert Hubbard created the thriving American Arts & Crafts
Movement community at Roycroft in 1897. The campus today offers overnight
accommodations, 14 landmark buildings, and the opportunity to try
coppersmithing and other crafts with talented artisans.
 
·       The central segment of the byway rolls from Niagara and Orleans
county¹s rural beauty into Rochester¹s metropolitan ambiance and eastward
through the orchards of Wayne County.

·       Quilters love the Country Barn Quilt Trail, a 22-mile loop tour off
the byway, that starts at Partyka Farms in Kendall and has more than 40
barns with hand-painted quilt block patterns.

·       Susan B. Anthony was arrested at her Rochester home-now-museum for
voting. Nearby, an outdoor park sculpture shows Susan B. having tea with
abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

·       ³The American pastime of byway touring means leisurely taking ³the
scenic route² through spacious countryside and friendly villages along
Eastern Lake OntarioŠ. Fair Haven offers camping, fishing, antiquing and
golf.

·       The byways¹ unique WWII-connected history is well-preserved in the
City of OswegoŠ with the Safe Haven MuseumŠ and a WWII Normandy Invasion
tugboat docked along West 1st St. PierŠ

·       Geocaching is the new outdoor adventure. You may be surprised that
there are so many caches along the Great Lakes Seaway Trail. If you are in
Watertown, for example, you will find more than 300 caches within just 25
miles of your home or hotel! ­ writes Great Lakes Seaway Trail GeoTrail
developer Jim ³Boots² Hooper.

·       Unwind on St. Lawrence ³River Time² ­ imagine a clock without hands.

·       The byway¹s leisurely pace through the 1000 Islands/St. Lawrence
River section of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail carries you to marinas,
resorts, campgrounds and shoreline villages. Along the way, enjoy a sip of
cold-hardy grape, fruit or onion wine at River Myst, Coyote Moon and other
Seaway Wine Trail vineyards.

·       As the unintended sentinel for the heartland of New France, Fort de
la Presentation at Ogdensburg, NY, could not resist a European army ­ writes
historian Michael Whittaker.

Visit http://www.seawaytrail.com/travelmagazine to learn more fascinating
facts that will inspire you to travel the Great Lakes Seaway Trail soon!
 
Great Lakes Seaway Trail, Great Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center, Ray &
West Main Streets, PO Box 660, Sackets Harbor, NY 13685, 315-646-1000
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