These are the places we'd leave town for. A few of these are close in but draw from a wide area; the Old Forge, Inlet and Cooperstown picks pair naturally with our Places to Go day-trip guides. Check hours before driving — distance raises the stakes.
An 1860s limestone castle east of Little Falls — the main dining room for the anniversary dinner, the cellar Dungeon bar for the nightcap.
Dry-aged Prime on Turning Stone's penthouse floor in Verona — business-casual-or-better dress code.
Year-round pizza and clams with a rooftop bar — the reliable anchor of an Adirondack day trip.
Fifty drafts and 23 wing flavors deeper into the mountains — the reward at the far end of Route 28.
Belgian ales, a farm-campus cafe and summer concerts — the non-baseball half of a Cooperstown trip.
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