Although you may never want to leave the quiet comfort of the Aurora Inn, the Finger Lakes region offers a wealth of natural beauty, recreation and entertainment opportunities. Following is a small sampling of what awaits you. Visit tourcayuga.com, visitithaca.com, skaneatles.com and fingerlakes.org more more information.

Finger Lakes Wine Trails – Finger Lakes wines –
particularly Rieslings – are attracting international attention these
days. Both Cayuga Lake and Seneca Lake have wine trails that
lead visitors to dozens of wineries that offer tastings, gourmet
food and picnic areas with breathtaking lake views.

Outdoor Activities – Borrow a bicycle or canoe from
the Aurora Inn and explore the countryside. Ask the front
desk about nearby downhill and cross-country skiing. And, in
spring, summer and fall, experience LAKE LIFE in Aurora.

Wells College Golf Course, Aurora –
Designed in part by Robert Trent Jones, this nine-hole course is
open to the public and offers sweeping views of Cayuga Lake.

Mid-Lakes Navigation Company offers barge
rides on the Erie Canal, as well as sightseeing cruises aboard
vintage U.S. mail boats and other watercraft on nearby
Skaneateles Lake.

Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, Auburn –
Housed in a former carousel, this professional summer theater is known
as “Broadway in the Finger Lakes.”

Skaneateles Festival: Chamber Music by the Lake –
Every summer since 1980, the Skaneateles Festival has brought world-class musicians to this lakeside village for four weeks of chamber music, chamber orchestra and children’s concerts.

John D. Barrow Art Gallery, Skaneateles – Located next to the Skaneateles Library, this gallery displays more than 300 landscape and portrait paintings of John D. Barrow (1824-1906). The Aurora Inn has 10 paintings hanging in its public rooms which are on loan to the inn through the gallery’s “Borrow a Barrow” program.