Things to Do If You Are Visiting Buffalo, NY- March 15 to 17, 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 for kids 12 and under and scouts in uniform at Gem, Mineral and Fossil Show at Hamburg Fairgrounds- March 16 and 17
  • FREE  – Equifest at Hamburg Fairgrounds- March 15 and 16
  • FREE Admission to Buffalo Museum of Science- Get a Pass at Your Library- February
  • FREE Ice skating at the Rotary Rink at Fountain Plaza downtown-to March 16
  • 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

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 April 11, 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- April 4
  • 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 March 15 to 17, 2025

  • Best Irish Pubs and Places to Hear Irish Music– March 15to 17
  • Strictly Hip St Patrick’s Concert at McKeever Legion Post– March 15
  • Old First Ward St. Patrick’s Parade- Marh 15
  • Strictly Hip St Patrick’s Concert- McKeever Legion Post – March 15
  • Gem, Mineral and Fossil Show at Hamburg Fairgrounds – March 15 and 16 – FREE for kids 12 and under and scouts in uniform
  • FREE – Equifest at Hamburg Fairgrounds- March 15 and 16
  • Plantasia at Hamburg Fairgrounds- March 15 to 16
  • Buffalo Irish Center- Music- March 15 to 16
  • Music at Riviera- March 15- Tribute to Bruce Springsteen
  • Music at Jack Rabbit- March 15- Zak Ward and the Million Dollar Question with Slip Maddigan
  • Music at Molly Maguries- March 15- Crikwater
  • Music at Buffalo Iron Works- March 15- Town Pants
  • Music at Electric City-March 15- Floyd Live- Tribute to Pink Floyd
  • Music at Roycroft Inn- March 16 – Jay Sharptet
  • East Aurora Winter Market- March 15
  • Music at Pausa- March 15- John Hasselbakc Jr Quintet
  • Music at Diamond Hawk -March 15- Flipside
  • Music at Sportsmens– March 15- Past Maters and Eddie Spaghettic and Metal Marty Chandler, March 17- 2pm and 6pm- Maggies Wake-
  • Music at the Cove- March 15- Frunkensteins’ Old School St. Patrick’s Dance
  • Music at Chick’s- March 15- Melissa Sauers
  • March  15- Byrncliff Resort Irish Food- Varysburg
  • 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