The Official Argue About Where Upstate NY Is Thread

[Skidog]

As mentioned I am basically a 'cuse kid. While born in Geneva the majority of my time was spent in syracuse. Every holiday and a few weeks during the summer. Lots of family is still in that area. Mom and dad met at Solvay high, and dad was a lifeguard at Solvay pool. The roots run deep. The state fair was a yearly event for me until I was about 16.

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[m2711c]

so, which was your favorite butter sculpture?

https://www.syracuse.com/statefair/2...ge_photos.html


this gets my vote.

[rideit]

As mentioned I am basically a 'cuse kid. While born in Geneva the majority of my time was spent in syracuse. Every holiday and a few weeks during the summer. Lots of family is still in that area. Mom and dad met at Solvay high, and dad was a lifeguard at Solvay pool. The roots run deep. The state fair was a yearly event for me until I was about 16.

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OMG I got laid a bunch at Wells college. It was an amazing honeypot. Good times...and a beautiful part of the state.

[EWG]

That's my mom's side of the family. The pic is my father's father so no shenanigans unless there is a czech mafia I'm unaware of. Lol

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Nice Czech family. Well done. I wonder if they knew mine. Probably not cause they weren't in upstate. Also ours were technically from Bohemia.

Yes, no Czech mafia. Unfortunately.

[wooley12]

Our Upstate roots run deep on grandma Cole's side.

[half-fast]

So what part of upstate would you all consider the (most) forgotten zone. The region that's barely even a drive through for most people, where the towns aren't really towns anymore and you can hear the faint whisper of banjos on the breeze.

Drive 88 from Binghamton to Schenectedy.
I’ve been all over ny. There are towns there I had never heard of. Shenevus? Beautiful drive through

[Benny Profane]

Yeah. That stretch of road is designated scenic on my old Rand McNally maps. All the stuff north along almost the entire length is some of the finest road biking anywhere.

Edit: Damn, I just checked Amazon, and this book is still available. It's a pretty awesome bible to that area. Pre gps and ridewithgps and strava.

https://www.amazon.com/Cranks-Cooper.../dp/0966263812

[ötzi]

That's my mom's side of the family. The pic is my father's father so no shenanigans unless there is a czech mafia I'm unaware of. Lol

You never heard of the Bad Czechs??

[rideit]

I’ll have to Czech ‘em out

[Brownski]

Google Roseboom, NY, but not while you’re in Roseboom. You won’t get a connection anywhere in the whole valley.

Drive 88 from Binghamton to Schenectedy.
I’ve been all over ny. There are towns there I had never heard of. Shenevus? Beautiful drive through

that’s right where Roseboom is

[EWG]

You never heard of the Bad Czechs??

I regret to inform you that you have been banned from this thread for 72 hours.

[EWG]

I’ll have to Czech ‘em out

You too.

[rideit]

My work is done here.
Czech, please!

[BC13]

Drive 88 from Binghamton to Schenectedy.
I’ve been all over ny. There are towns there I had never heard of. Shenevus? Beautiful drive through

I agree, the I-88 corridor and alot of the triangle between 88 and 81 might as well be Kentucky. Gotta love a town called Butternuts.

The tundra north of the ADKs is also a no man's land. Some really freaking weird places up there. Like pay someone $200 and make someone disappear strange. Some of those little towns north of 11 make St. Regis falls feel like a modern boom town.



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[gravitylover]

There's fiddles playing in some spots in the Taconics, especially as you get up north of the Slate Valley along the VT border and keep going up 22 but northern Dutchess and Columbia Counties have some worn out zones that keep up with the best of 'em. What about some of the valleys on the NW side of the Catskills? Dead zone. South and west of Ellicotville - never never land. Yup north of the Daks is the home of the strange.

I think overall the Taconics is the most underutlized and biggest forgotten zone in the state. They run from my area to north of Lake George so well over 200 miles and man, you can get deep into some hidden hollows and find old towns and stone shelters built into the hills and weird Kentucky kinda shit. The VT side has it's own down home charm and the highest peaks in the range.

[Peruvian]

There's fiddles playing in some spots in the Taconics, especially as you get up north of the Slate Valley along the VT border and keep going up 22 but northern Dutchess and Columbia Counties have some worn out zones that keep up with the best of 'em. What about some of the valleys on the NW side of the Catskills? Dead zone. South and west of Ellicotville - never never land. Yup north of the Daks is the home of the strange.

I think overall the Taconics is the most underutlized and biggest forgotten zone in the state. They run from my area to north of Lake George so well over 200 miles and man, you can get deep into some hidden hollows and find old towns and stone shelters built into the hills and weird Kentucky kinda shit. The VT side has it's own down home charm and the highest peaks in the range.

I’m a big fan of Washington County, NY. Real farmers, beautiful views, and even a decent brewery or two.

[Benny Profane]

Awesome road biking, too. A big gravel/paved event happens there every year, the Tour of the Battenkill.

[BmillsSkier]

There's fiddles playing in some spots in the Taconics, especially as you get up north of the Slate Valley along the VT border and keep going up 22 but northern Dutchess and Columbia Counties have some worn out zones that keep up with the best of 'em. What about some of the valleys on the NW side of the Catskills? Dead zone. South and west of Ellicotville - never never land. Yup north of the Daks is the home of the strange.

I think overall the Taconics is the most underutlized and biggest forgotten zone in the state. They run from my area to north of Lake George so well over 200 miles and man, you can get deep into some hidden hollows and find old towns and stone shelters built into the hills and weird Kentucky kinda shit. The VT side has it's own down home charm and the highest peaks in the range.

One year I purposefully chose backroads only leaving E’ville headed west until I hooked up with the Lake Erie Scenic Route. There’s little forgotten town squares no bigger than a postage stamp, all pretty much boarded up, but you’d see a few people sitting on falling-down porches, in the dead of winter, pulling on their smokes and leering at you as you drive by.

Makes you wonder what they hell they do to live there. Like the northern version of railroad-stop ghost towns in the rural South. Creepy and mysterious at the same time.

[gravitylover]

See that's what I'm talking about and I think upstate NY has more of it than pretty much anywhere else north of I70 (except maybe PA). Totally worn out and nearly turned to dust places that used to matter is a hallmark of the region.

[riser4]

There's fiddles playing in some spots in the Taconics, especially as you get up north of the Slate Valley along the VT border and keep going up 22 but northern Dutchess and Columbia Counties have some worn out zones that keep up with the best of 'em. What about some of the valleys on the NW side of the Catskills? Dead zone. South and west of Ellicotville - never never land. Yup north of the Daks is the home of the strange.

I think overall the Taconics is the most underutlized and biggest forgotten zone in the state. They run from my area to north of Lake George so well over 200 miles and man, you can get deep into some hidden hollows and find old towns and stone shelters built into the hills and weird Kentucky kinda shit. The VT side has it's own down home charm and the highest peaks in the range.

Mt. Equinox FTW!!!

[gravitylover]

Is Equinox in the Taconics or Greens? Is Rt 7 the geological break between the ranges over there? I know it is in NW Mass but further south it's Rt 22 and north it's VT 30.

Scattered week coming up, gonna do a nice roundabout the Upstate zones, gotta hit western, central and southern tier in this shortened week. I have a feeling western is gonna get put off again, damn state is so big...

[rideit]

See that's what I'm talking about and I think upstate NY has more of it than pretty much anywhere else north of I70 (except maybe PA). Totally worn out and nearly turned to dust places that used to matter is a hallmark of the region.

Richard Russo captures this better than anyone else, IMO. Might have to do some reading in honor of this thread.

[hatchgreenchile]

BC13 took my first choice with the odd towns north of the 'Daks. Malone, NY is a weird place.

I'd also nominate some of the backwoods towns of Alleghany & Steuben County...Troupsburg, Whitesville, Addison, Alma, etc

[riser4]

Is Equinox in the Taconics or Greens? Is Rt 7 the geological break between the ranges over there? I know it is in NW Mass but further south it's Rt 22 and north it's VT 30.

Scattered week coming up, gonna do a nice roundabout the Upstate zones, gotta hit western, central and southern tier in this shortened week. I have a feeling western is gonna get put off again, damn state is so big...

Geologically, it's in the Taconic range. Human constructed artifacts do not determine mountain ranges. Greylock in MA is also in the Taconics, geologically, even though it gets lumped into the Berkshires.

[huckbucket]

so, which was your favorite butter sculpture?

https://www.syracuse.com/statefair/2...ge_photos.html


this gets my vote.

Butter sculpture reference is hard f’n core upstate son. Founding member of the FUNK club (fuggin upstate ny klub).