The Official Argue About Where Upstate NY Is Thread

[Brownski]

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

Good point. I apologize for not acknowledging this before. Butter sculpture FTW
edit: Now I kind of want to see how big a stick of butter they started with to end up with a refrigerator

[BmillsSkier]

Thank you for asking what we were all wondering.

[m2711c]

state fair is a whole ‘nother levels of the upstate experience....

[Brownski]

state fair is a whole ‘nother levels of the upstate experience....

I’ve never been. I rode an elephant at the Orange County Fair though.

[rideit]

Nothing like Lynrd Skynrd at the NY state fair on mushrooms in the 80’s...

[m2711c]

I’ve never been. I rode an elephant at the Orange County Fair though.

poser...

[EWG]

My favorite upstate NY festival of all time: Norwich Sauerkraut festival. Sadly it no longer exists. The Norwich sauerkraut factory closed in 2008. Now, this is not to be confused by the big city sauerkraut festival in Phelps. Norwich festival is a bit smaller.

I think you all would have really liked it.

[ötzi]

I give you North Norwich NY: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.6055...7i13312!8i6656

Looks kinda gloomy.

[Benny Profane]

Nothing like Lynrd Skynrd at the NY state fair on mushrooms in the 80’s...

Which calls for a shout out for upstate music history cred. Of course, host to the seminal and some will argue the most famous of music festivals, Woodstock, but then host to what some consider the largest gathering of humans in one place in history, (Whoa, doood!) the Summer Jam at Watkins Glen. Dude.

[BmillsSkier]

Didn’t someone here post old timey pics of a fair where they had a peeler booth? Seems Upstate enough.

At least Erie enough, that’s for sure.

[m2711c]

My favorite upstate NY festival of all time:

you got your favorites, i got mine....

[rideit]

Hypnotic Clambake were a bunch of fun.

[ötzi]

Don't forget to buy your dog a ticket.

[m2711c]

yeah, they had more rules by then.... t'weren't allways that ways. bit more laid back, back when.



some tutorials on rooney mountain in the upstates....




















that's hows its done. i tell you what.

[Brownski]

My entry for the land-that-time-forgot award. My family used to rent a cabin on a tiny little lake there when I was a kid. I got to show my wife and kids around when we went to a baseball tournament in Cooperstown two summers ago. The town hasn’t changed at all since I was a kid, except that they added tons of seasonal camping spots at the lake. Which doesn’t help the ambiance but it is pretty upstate of them.



There are two businesses in town, this place, Bob’s Corner Store, and a small restaurant that’s closed most of the time. Once I was a teenager I got my parents to let me bring my bike so I could ride it down to Bob’s and buy cheap candy and snappers there.



This is the dam that held the lake in. We used to go down there and flip over ricks to catch frogs and crawfish. I brought a bucket of crawfish home once but I couldn’t convince my mom to cook them. One night I was just wandering around outside after dark and I heard squealing tires a huge crash down there, breaking tree branches etc... My sister went to get my dad and I ran down the road, pretty much to the same spot I took this pic from. There was a car sitting down there, right in the middle of the stream, like he meant to park it there, headlights still on. My dad reached me just as the driver stepped out. The guy turns around, sees us standing up on the road and says, “What are you looking at?”

[gravitylover]

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.

I'm all about the geology that's why I asked. In a few places the roads happen to be sitting right on the line between the mt ranges. I didn't realize Greylock is in the Taconics.

My favorite upstate NY festival of all time: Norwich Sauerkraut festival. Sadly it no longer exists. The Norwich sauerkraut factory closed in 2008. Now, this is not to be confused by the big city sauerkraut festival in Phelps. Norwich festival is a bit smaller.

I think you all would have really liked it.

Isn't there a great car museum in Norwich?

[BmillsSkier]

Isn't there a great car museum in Norwich?

There’s a killer used car lot in Gowanda.

[ötzi]

I give you North Norwich NY: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.6055...7i13312!8i6656

Looks kinda gloomy.

I guess nobody clicked? It's dark, it's overcast, it's lonely...it's Upstate boiled down to its essence.

[wooley12]

Weird. It's only dark for 1/2 mile.

[ötzi]

huh I didn't go down the road that's where I landed when I went to look around. Weird.

[BmillsSkier]

The ominous car coming at you in the dark is a nice touch.

[wooley12]

Lake Effect darkness?

[BmillsSkier]

It’s a real thing. From October through March it gets dark at 3:30.

[rideit]

But the darkness in your soul begins at 6:00 AM.

[Peruvian]

45 years ago - Frampton came alive in Plattsburgh.