The beautiful High Falls of Rochester, N.Y. Getty Images/500px Plus Samantha House | shouse@syracuse.
com Rochester, N.Y. — Upstate New York is dotted with unforgettable college towns brimming with school spirit.
And Rochester , a vibrant city with an impressive number of higher education institutions, has just been named one of the best college towns in the United States. Rochester was one of 20 communities included in a roundup of the top college towns in America by Thrillist , a digital publication focused on travel. The Flower City was the only place in college-saturated New York state to make the list, which included towns ranging from Ann Arbor, Michigan to State College, Pennsylvania.
The Rochester area hosts several public and private colleges — including the University of Rochester, the Rochester Institute of Technology, St. John Fisher University and SUNY Brockport. Nineteenth-century statues stand by Rush Rhees Library at the University of Rochester on Wednesday, February 22, 2023.
(AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) AP For those students, Rochester offers a unique late-night, rite-of-passage eat: garbage plates , a dish created by Nick Tahou Hots that traditionally consists of hamburgers or hot dogs on a mountain of home fries and macaroni salad topped with a spicy meat sauce. Garbage plates are a “big part” of the college experience in Rochester, Thrillist wrote. “Rochester’s confluence of students from the University of Rochester, RIT, and nearby SUNYs at Brockport and Geneseo have made it the stuff of late-night legends,” the magazine wrote.
But there is much more to Rochester’s college scene than garbage plates. The city is “teeming with college-friendly culture,” Thrillist said — from the Neighborhood of Play, home to Nerdvana and the Strong National Museum of Play , to Rochester’s proximity to Letchworth State Park , the Grand Canyon of the East. Here are the 20 communities that made Thrillist’s list of the best college communities in the U.
S.: Ann Arbor, Michigan Athens, Georgia Bloomington, Indiana Boone, North Carolina Boulder, Colorado Chapel Hill, North Carolina Clemson, South Carolina Columbus, Ohio Eugene, Oregon Knoxville, Tennessee Lexington, Kentucky Madison, Wisconsin Oxford, Mississippi Providence, Rhode Island Rochester, New York San Marcos, Texas State College, Pennsylvania Tallahassee, Florida Tempe, Arizona Tucson, Arizona More in Upstate NY travel How to see full harvest supermoon, partial eclipse this week in NY: ‘A special one’ 7 ways to spend a weekend in charming Old Forge, the ‘Adirondack Base Camp’ 21 apple cider donut spots in Upstate NY you dough-not want to miss.
