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[QUOTE="SkyTopBus44, post: 3912024, member: 6197"]
One of my favorite Syracuse weekends is when the opening of the football season coincides with the New York State Fair.  My wife and I get a hotel room and make a weekend out of it. It feels so Americana and very Upstate NY.  For me it is as cool an atmosphere and weekend as anywhere.  Then again, I am on this board so I am a Syracuse football and huge fan of the region.

It always surprised me that Syracuse U doesn't do more to connect the two events. That said I guess it is when most students arrive on campus for the semester and there are other things to do.  I had a car as a student and was in Syracuse in the summers so I would drive down to the fairgrounds. I introduced the Fair to many friends on campus but felt like if you weren't adventurous it was easy as a student to get caught in the bubble on campus.  Many students who I lived with in the dorms or on south... the only places they saw in Syracuse outside of the SU hill was the Carousel Mall/Erie Blvd/Wegmans.

There is so much else going on that is special in the CNY area that I think most SU students never see before graduating.  I went to Crunch games, SkyChief games, downtown, the lakes, and all over the area.   For a city the size of Syracuse it has a lot to offer. You have to make the effort to see it because it is not marketed to students in my opinion.
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