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Practically every sport and entertainment interest can be fulfilled in Lancaster, NY and the surrounding area.

Recreation & Culture

Practically every sport and entertainment interest can be fulfilled in Lancaster and the surrounding area. The Town of Lancaster Recreation Department organizes a multitude of indoor and outdoor activities and sports for the whole family.

In Lancaster

• Lancaster has multiple public and private golf clubs with nationally recognized 18 hole golf courses.
• Como Lake Park is a county park of 375 acres offering picnic sites, baseball diamonds, and tennis courts in the summer ... skating and sledding in the winter.
• There are 3 town parks and 7 shared facilities operated by the Town of Lancaster Recreation Department. The largest of the parks is 46 acres. Additional sites have been acquired for future recreational expansion. Parks in Lancaster have the best of facilities. Tennis, basketball courts, baseball diamonds, a twelve foot pool and 2 wading pools for the youngsters are all properly supervised. The Town Pool is accessible to the handicapped. Picnics in Lancaster are fun too ... with designated areas and shelters.
• The Lancaster National Speedway supplies all the thrills and chills of exciting auto racing. Oval stock car racing and the 1/8 mile drag strip draw thousands of fans each season.

Nearby Lancaster:

• The 80,000 seat Rich Stadium. Home of the Buffalo Bills.
• North Americare Park. Seats 19,000 baseball fans.
• The new, state-of-the-art Marine Midland Arena in Buffalo hosts the Buffalo Sabres of the NHL. Indoor events, such as the circus and all types of concerts, are held throughout the year.
• We are near over 30 full length golf courses, 20 ski areas, 3 harness tracks, and 2 thoroughbred tracks.
• Lakes Erie & Ontario and the Niagara River are great for swimming, boating, sailing, fishing, and sun bathing.
• You can visit the nearby Buffalo Zoo, Science Museum, Historical Museum, Studio Arena Theatre, Shea's Buffalo Center for The Performing Arts, Melody Fair, Kleinhans Music Hall, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Artpark, the Naval and Servicemen's Park, major amusement parks and a whole lot more!
• NFTA Small Boat Harbor: This recreational facility is the largest marina in Western New York and only 25 minutes from Lancaster. There are over 1,200 docks, 14 launch ramps and 6 wheelchair accessible docks.

Lancaster Heritage

The people of Lancaster are proud of their past and look forward to future growth. Lancaster has been a solid, conservative and well­managed community since 1833. Lancaster is well known for teamwork. The people here elect dedicated officials who relate to the community's interests.

Lancaster stands proud with its industrial history of over 140 years! The Lancaster Glass Works, the Gould National Battery Co., planing mills, breweries, a soap factory, brickyards, an organ factory, carriage shops and foundries are all a part of a past that reflect themselves in the present!

The past has been preserved in Lancaster's one­room 1868 Schoolhouse. Another popular attraction is the Lancaster Opera House. Located on the second floor of the Lancaster Town Hall, it is believed to be one of only seventeen in the United States. This historic 1894 structure of extraordinary design has been carefully restored to its original elegance. Once again, the Opera House serves as a source of civic and cultural pride ­ the "heartbeat" of a growing community.

Today's children learn and share the experiences of our forefathers in Lancaster's 1892 Historical Museum at 40 Clark Street, behind the Town Hall.

Photo Credits: Ron Moscati Salvadore. Wilton S. Tifft.

Town of Lancaster Industrial Development Agency

21 Central Avenue, Lancaster, NY 14086

Tel: 716/683-1610 . . . . . . . . Fax: 716/683-0512

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