There are 11,000 acres of parkland in the Rochester area which provide recreational opportunities during every season of the year. Highland Park was designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and is the site of a beautiful Lilac Festival each May. Maplewood Park Rose Garden features stunning displays in June and September, while Ontario Beach Park beckons with its sandy beach, piers, boardwalk, and a 1905 Dentzel menagerie carousel. Tucked along the Genesee River, lovely Seneca Park was also Olmsted-designed and holds the delightful Seneca Park Zoo. <br> A short drive further into the Finger Lakes Region brings more scenic splendor with glacier-carved gorges, hills, streams, and landscapes filled with grape vines. Here in the heart of New York's "wine country," large, corporate wineries mingle with smaller family-owned vineyards. Nearly all of them offer tours and samples for visitors.<br> Rochester is easily accessible from anywhere and easy to get around once here. The Greater Rochester International Airport features a modern, convenient terminal; enclosed parking garage; and hundreds of flights daily by major airlines . There is an Amtrak train station downtown as well as a NY State Trailways and Greyhound bus terminal behind Midtown Plaza.