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Plan a Road Trip > Explore America > New York > Oswego |
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Time Zone
Eastern
Latitude/Longitude
43.44° /-76.49°
Today's Forecast
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HIGH: 55
LOW: 45
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Once a booming shipping, shipbuilding and manufacturing center, with grain elevators lining its riverfront and huge factories producing everything from corn starch to boilers, Oswego today is a quiet college town, home to Oswego State University. You can visit Historic Fort Ontario, the last in a series of forts built on this site since the mid-1700s. The Richardson-Bates House has period furnishings and displays on local history. Oswego's maritime past is recounted at the H. Lee White Marine Museum. Charter fishing cruises leave from the harbor. To the west, Fair Haven State Park offers a sand beach and popular picnicking groves.
Harborfest brings thousands to town in August for parades, music, an art fair, and craft shows. All summer, you can join the throngs who head for the stands "out around the loop" to get fish fries and hot dogs, skip stones, and watch the sun set over Lake Ontario.
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