On behalf of WISe & AdvanceRIT, welcome to the ROC! Making the move to a new city can be daunting. We thought we’d give you a taste of what Rochester, NY has to offer. Here are some of our local favorites! - The RIT Women in Science & AdvanceRIT ROCHESTER Next Door Bar & Grill Dinosaur BBQ BUCKET LIST Hike the Letchworth River Trail FANCY EATS CHEAP EATS to see Upper and Lower Falls Pane Vino Sticky Lips Eat ice cream at the original Hattie’s (Strathallan Dinosaur BBQ Abbotts and walk the boardwalk Rooftop) Food Truck Rodeo at Ontario Beach Park TRATA Genesee Brewery Go to the Rochester Public The Revelry French Quarter Market on Saturday morning Gatehouse Aladdin's Double feature at the Cinema Lento Simply Crepes followed by a milkshake at Cub Room Schaller’s Highland Park Diner Ox and Stone Coal Tower Visit the Eastman House Black and Blue Jines Park Avenue Pub Thali of India See a flick at the Little Theater Good Luck King & I Dine at Original Tom Wahl's in Atlas Eats Pi Craft Pizza Avon followed by a double Next Door Grill Palmer's feature at Vintage Drive-In Rooney’s The Old Toad Bike or walk along the Erie Woodcliff - Horizons Wegmans Canal Label 7 Red Fern (Vegan) Eat at the Genesee Brew Owl House Hose 22 House and take a tour of the Max at Eastman Place Bill Gray’s Genesee Brewery Nosh Finger Lakes wine tour Branca REDD Rochester microbrewery tour Shop for groceries at Wegmans Rochester Outdoors HIKES & BIKE RIDES AMUSEMENT PARKS Erie Canal Trail Seabreeze Park Letchworth State Park Darien Lake (Six Flags) Mendon Ponds Park Roseland Water Park FESTIVALS Washington Grove Powder Mills Park Apr Imagine RIT Corbett’s Glen May Lilac Festival Ellison Park Rochester Greek Fest Chimney Bluffs Jun Roc. International Jazz Mt. Hope Cemetery Fest Cobbs Hill Jul Fairport Canal Days Lehigh Valley Trail Corn Hill Festival Auburn Trail Roc Jewish Film Fest WINTER ACTIVITIES Aug Genesee Valley Greenway Rochester Pride Parade Bristol Mtn (downhill skiing) Park Ave Festival Swain Mtn (downhill skiing) Sep Fairport Music Festival Batavia Snow Tubing Clothesline Arts Festival Mendon Ponds (XC skiing) Fringe Festival Tinker Nature Park (XC skiing) Oct Naples Grape Festival Weekend trip to Lake Placid Hilton Apple Festival Niagara Falls Winter Vortex Image Out: LGBT Film Fest The Arts LIVE THEATER CONCERT VENUES Geva Theatre Next Stage Eastman Theater Black Friars Main Street Armory Auditorium Theater CMAC (Canandaigua) Downstairs Cabaret Theatre Bug Jar Roc Broadway Theatre League Blue Cross Arena MUSEUMS & ATTRACTIONS Nazareth Center for the Arts Montage Music Hall Rochester Museum & Rochester Community Players German House Science Center (RMSC) Anthology Strasenburgh Planetarium Memorial Art Gallery George Eastman House Strong Museum of Play Susan B. Anthony House Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Eastman School of Music Concert Family Activities ROCHESTER OUTINGS SPORTS Seneca Park Zoo RIT Sports! Sky Zone/Altitude Rochester Redwings (Baseball) Horizon Fun FX Rochester Amerks (Hockey) Wickham Farm Rochester Rhinos (Soccer) Perinton Aquatic Center Syracuse (Basketball) Bill Gray’s Iceplex Buffalo Bills (Football) Garden Factory Buffalo Sabres (Hockey) Powers Farm Market (Halloween) Rochester Knighthawks (Lacrosse) RocVentures DAY TRIPS Finger Lakes Race Track Escape Rooms Seneca Falls Watkins Glen Race Track Bristol Mtn Aerial Adventures Niagara Falls Apple picking Finger Lakes Seabreeze Chimney Bluffs Letchworth Stony Brook Ithaca, NY Taughannock Falls Corning Glass Museum Drinks BEER, WINE, & SPIRITS COFFEE Genesee Brewery Fuego ROC City Brewing Glen Edith Swiftwater Ugly Duck Three Heads Brewing Joe Bean Rohrbach Brewing Company Spot Coffee The Lost Borough Brewing Village Bakery Iron Tug Brewing PERKS K2 Brothers Brewing BJ’s discount Lock 32 Brewing Company Fairport Brewing Co 20% off Verizon Muller’s Cider House Hertz & National car rental Blue Toad Hard Cider R.A.R.E.S program Casa Larga Access to Ritter Arena Seneca & Cayuga Wine Trails Access to RIT gym Black Button Distilling .