Things to Do If You Are Visiting Buffalo, NY- April 20 to 25, 2025. Buffalo is a great place for a vacation. Activities for kids,  great parks, museums, and tourist stuff you won’t want to miss.SO, if you are visiting, you can now say you experienced a snowy Buffalo winter.

Kids

  • Easter Egg Hunt at Kelkenberg Farm- April 21- Clarence
  • FREE admission at Corning Museum of Glass for kids and teens– all the time
  • Explore and More Children’s Museum for young kids- carrousel at Canalside where the museum is location- 44 Prime St.- Open – Wednesday to Sunday
  • Aquarium of Niagara in Niagara Falls- Open daily
  • Herschell Carrousel Museum- open Wednesday to Sunday
  • Buffalo Museum of Science, 1020 Humboldt Parkway- open daily
  • Buffalo Zoo- Open daily- new tiger and lion cubs

Nature- Outdoors

  • Best Places to Hike- Knox Farm State Park, Reinstein, Niagara Falls, Iroquois National Wildlife
  • Niagara Falls State Park- bring a passport and you can do both sides (US and Canada)- Illumination at Night. Cave of the Winds,  Maid of the Mist ,Terrapin Point, Lots 2 and 1. NY Residents 65+ can get free parking during the week- slide driver’s license under scanner at parking area
  • Letchworth State Park- Grand Canyon of the East
  • Reinstein Woods is a great place for an easy walk as well- ponds, wildlife

Museums

  • Burchfield Penny Art Center (across the street from Albright)- FREE Admission on May 9, 2025  from 10am to 8pmand live music at 5:30pm.
  •   Albright Knox Art Museum- Open Mondays and Thursday- Sunday (closed Tuesday and Wednesday). FREE admission/Pay What you Can- May 2
  • Pierce Arrow- Auto, Bike, Motorcycle Museum- Open from 11 am to 4pm- this is a really cool museum- check it out. Open Friday and Saturday
  • Darwin Martin House (Frank Lloyd Wright)
  • Buffalo Naval Park at Canalside- Open Wednesday- Sunday- 10am to 5pm- closed for the winter but you can still see the ships from the walkway
  • Herschell Carrousel Museum- open Wednesday to Sunday
  • Buffalo Museum of Science, 1020 Humboldt Parkway- open daily

Tourist Stuff

  • Vidler’s 5 and Dime in East Aurora
  • Get Wings and Beef on Weck (weck is short for kimmelweck bun which is a bun sprinkled with coarse salt and caraway seeds instead of sesame). Do NOT go to Anchor Bar-while it may have invented the wings, they are not the best here. Bar Bills or Hamlin and Main in East Aurora are the best for wings and Beef on Weck.
  • FREE Tour of Buffalo City Hall (at  65 Niagara Square)- Monday- Friday starting at Noon but you must register for the tour – call 716-245-3032. There are other city tours- Explore Buffalo.
  • Our Lady of Victory Basilica- 767 Ridge Road, Lackawanna- rivals the churches of Europe, open, do not have to be Catholic to view the amazing architecture. And, it is down the street from the Buffalo Botanical Gardens. Wayside Family Restaurant- 2301 S. Park is inexpensive and good  food in causal environment–just down the street from the gardens.
  • Buffalo Naval Park (at Canalside- boardwalk, Explore and More there as well)
  • Frank Lloyd Wright Martin House- 125 Jewett Parkway- near the Buffalo Zoo.
  • Niagara Wine Trail
  • Buffalo Naval Park at Canalside- tours end in fall but still cool to see big ships
  • Lots of Places for live music- Sportsmen’s Tavern (almost daily music), Pausa, Duende at Silo City, Town Ballroom, Chandelier at Salvatore’s (it’s an experience in itself), The Cove in Depew
  •  Riverworks- restaurant, ferris while, silos, entertainment
  • Mall- Galleria
  • Roycroft- Inn – food and music on Friday nights, center for craft movement- shops
  • Gambling- Seneca Casino downtown and Hamburg Gaming, Plus at Niagara Falls Seneca

Events from  April 20 to 25, 2025

  • Strictly Hip Acoustic Concert on Hertel- April 20
  • Spring Flower Show at Buffalo Botanical Gardens- April 20 to 28
  • Music at Jack Rabbit- April 20- Buffalo Dead All Stars
  • Easter Brunch at Byrncliff Resort- April 20- Varysburg
  • Music at Buffalo Iron Works-April 20- New Mastersounds with The Sideways
  • Dyngus Day – April 21- Parade, Music and Food– Schedule
  • Dyngus Day at Corpus Christi Church- April 21
  • Music at Babeville- April 22- Caiola
  • Music at Electric City- April 21- LS Dunes
  • Music at Albright Knox-April 24- Curtis Lovell
  • Riviera Theater- April 23- LA Guns
  • Music at Sportsmen’s-  April 22- The Fritz at Noon and Twang Gang, April 23- Joe Baudo Jazz Quintet at Noon, Jamie Holka, April 24- Lunch Bunch and Ron LoCurto Band
  • Music at Chick’s-April 25- Ally Kat
  • Music at Roycroft Inn- April 25- Samuel Tambe Band
  • Music at the Cove- April 25- CODA- Led Zeppelin
  • Music at Chandelier Bar- April 24- Steve Padin
  • Music at the Caz – April 23- Doctor Lonnie Smith Jazz Fest- Gerry Youngman, Jay Sharpet, HS’s
  • Music at Hamburg Gaming- April 25- Chicago Jack and The Outfit
  • Molly Maguries-April 25- Damone Jackson Outcome
  • Music at Town Ballroom – April 22- Awolnation
  • Music at Pausa- April 24- Guabaza- Latin
  • Spring Craft Fair at Cleveland Drive Presbyterian Church- May 3- Cheektowaga
  • Music at Jazzboline- Wednesdays 6-9pm-Amherst
  • Pasta Night on Wednesdays and Pizza Night at Pellicano’s Winery on Fridays– 6736 Boston State Road in Hamburg. If you want beer, there is Hamburg Brewing sort of across the street at 6553 Boston State Road.
  • Southern Tier Brewery- 7 Scott Street- food and huge screens for watching sports- near Canalside