Pleasant temperatures and colorful foliage mark the fall here, while winter snowfalls beautifully transform the landscape. For sports enthusiasts, every season in Western New York is special. Major professional sports teams like the Buffalo Bills football team, the Buffalo Sabres hockey team and the Buffalo Bisons, a minor league baseball team, draw record crowds to their games in fall, winter and summer. Ice rinks and an array of ski resorts to the south of Buffalo entice thousands even on the coldest of days. Summer sees the return of thousands to the waterways of the region Lakes Erie and Ontario, the Niagara River, and to the east, the Finger Lakes for swimming, boating, waterskiing and fishing.
Buffalo is only an hour's flight from New York City, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago.
The busy international airport at Buffalo is served by eight major airlines, with frequent service to destinations throughout North America.