local/regional attractions
Near Cooperstown
Oneonta (23 miles south)
- Historic Downtown
- National Soccer Hall of Fame
- Oneonta Tigers Minor-League Baseball
Cobleskill (30 miles east)
Utica (45 miles northwest)
Schenectady (65 miles east)
Albany (75 miles east)
Binghamton (80 miles southwest)
- Art Mission
- Binghamton Mets - AA Minor League Baseball
- Binghamton Philharmonic
- Binghamton Senators – American Hockey League
- Binghamton University – Anderson Center for the Arts, theatre, sports
- Broom County Veterans Memorial Arena
- Cider Mill Playhouse
- The Discovery Center
- First Friday – gallery hopping, art openings, theatre, music
- The Forum
- Kopernik Space Education Center
- Roberson Museum and Science Center
- Ross Park Zoo
- Six carousels
- Tri-Cities Opera
Syracuse (95 miles west)
- Dinosaur Bar-B-Q
- Carousel Mall
- Rosamond Gifford Zoo
- Syracuse University
- Everson Museum of Art
- Museum of Science and Technology
- Light Work Gallery
Rochester (175 miles west)
Amanda Ziebka '11 learns how to milk a cow at The Farmers' Museum.