Things to Do If You Are Visiting Buffalo, NY- January 30 to February 2, 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

  • FREE Admission to Buffalo Museum of Science- Get a Pass at Your Library- January-February
  • FREE Ice skating at the Rotary Rink at Fountain Plaza downtown- January to March 16
  • FREE admission at Corning Museum of Glass for kids and teens– all the time
  • Snowglobe at Niagara Square- January 31 to Feb 1
  • Buffalo Philharmonic Music for Kids- 5 and under- Feb 1 and 8
  • Learn about snakes at Reinstein Woods- Feb 1
  • 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

Nature- Outdoors

  • Cross Country Ski and Shoeshow at Byrncliff Resort- Varysburg
  • Downhill Ski- Holiday Valley
  • 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

  • Albright Knox Art Museum- Open Mondays and Thursday- Sunday (closed Tuesday and Wednesday). FREE admission/Pay What you Can- February 7
  • Burchfield Penny Art Center (across the street from Albright)- FREE Admission on February 14, 2025 and live music at 5:30pm. Second floor has terrific glass exhibit.  Closed Monday and Tuesday- Open Wed-Sunday.
  • 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 on January 30 to February 2, 2025

  • Music at Buffalo Iron Works- Jan 31- The Shakemakers with Uncovered
  • Snowglobe at Niagara Square- January 31 to Feb 2
  • Snowbuster Auto Swap Meet at Hamburg Fairgrounds- Feb 2
  • Jazz at Jazzboline- Feb 2
  • Trivia Night at Buffalo History Musem- Jan 30
  • Music at Mohawk Place- closing- two farewell tours- Jan 30 and Jan 31
  • Music at Electric City- Jan 30- BAYNK
  • Live Music at Pausa- Jan 31- Brazil 716
  • Music at Molly Maguries- Jan 31- Damone Jackson Outcome
  • Music at Chandelier Bar at Salvatore’s- Jan 30- Nanula and  Quatrani
  • New York State Winter Classic Fishing Tournament- Jan 1 to February 28
  • Music at Babeville- Jan 30- Wishy
  • Music at Riviera – Jan 31- Smeels Like Nirvana
  • Music at Roycroft Inn – Jan 31- Samuel Tambe Band
  • Music at Town Ballroom -Jan 31- Of the TREES- Moonglade
  • Music at Jazzboline- Wednesdays 6-9pm and Sunday Jazz Brunch-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