![]() ![]() At the other end of the Outer Harbor is Buffalo Harbor State Park, which includes a marina and restaurant, as well as a nautical-themed playground for kids. Once you’ve worked up a sweat, the Pointe Beer Garden serves up suds and other refreshments alongside lawn games like cornhole. The heart of the space is Wilkeson Pointe, which features man-made rises to watch the sunset as well as a small beach. The terrain here is flat, making it easy to cruise along at a moderate pace and enjoy the views of Lake Erie – on a clear day, you can see Canada to the northwest. Rent one on the Outer Harbor itself, bring your own or grab one from the stands at Canalside and take the Bike Ferry (just $1 each way) to and from the Outer Harbor. The best way to see this 400-acre space is by bicycle. Peaceful Outer Harbor in Buffalo is an escape from the city © Trisha Ping / Lonely Planet Biking Buffalo’s Outer Harborįor a greener outdoor adventure, head to the Outer Harbor, a narrow strip of land between the Buffalo River and Lake Erie that serves as the city’s Central Park. There’s a 65ft Indiana Jones-style rope bridge between the second and third zip lines, to challenge your trembling legs, and the final zipline is a tandem that allows you to race your partner to the finish.īuffalo RiverWorks also has a rock-climbing wall, a ropes course, kayak rentals and a roller skate rink, which is used by the Queen City Roller Girls, Buffalo’s beloved roller derby team. You’ll be accompanied by two experienced guides, whose evident ease and acrobatic antics on the line might be enough to convince you to drop your white-knuckled grip on the harness and enjoy yourself. Climb more than 100 stairs to the top of a grain silo for the first of four runs that zig and zag between silos and towers for a gradual descent. In other words, it’s a pure adrenaline hit. At Buffalo RiverWorks, you can launch yourself out of an 110ft grain silo, above a concrete patio, buoyed (or buffeted, depending) by the wind off Lake Erie. If you thought zip lines were only found in tropical locales, think again. Be sure to keep an eye out for the bright red EM Cotter, the country’s oldest operating fireboat, and water birds like cormorants and Canada geese.Ī rope bridge stretches between two grain silos on the zipline course at RiverWorks © Trisha Ping / Lonely Planet Soaring across an urban zip line On the other side of the river, luxury apartments reused timber and iron work from the freight house that was once there. Old sits alongside new here: a repurposed set of silos painted to resemble Labatt beer cans, site of Buffalo RiverWorks (more on this later) is pretty much next door to the still operating General Mills plant (sniff the air for the scent of Cheerios). The mild current and short distance makes this trip suitable for kayakers of all experience levels, although the occasional strong winds might have you putting some elbow grease into your paddling. It’s possible to launch your own kayak from various spots, including Mutual Riverfront Park, but Explore Buffalo’s guided tour gives welcome historical context to the varied buildings on the waterfront through an approximately 3-mile round-trip paddle down the Buffalo River toward Lake Erie. You can get a sense of Buffalo’s past and present by kayaking the so-called ‘Elevator Alley’ on the Buffalo River, which runs between them. Sleek marvels of industrial design, Buffalo’s massive concrete grain silos and oxidized metal grain elevators have only recently started to be repurposed. ![]() ![]() Kayakers paddle past grain silos on the Buffalo River © Explore Buffalo Kayaking among the silos
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