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Town in New York, United States
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Sterling is a rural town in the Finger Lakes region of New York. The village of Fair Haven is the primary population center.
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For seven weekends every summer, the village of Warwickshire emerges from 16th-century England to appear in rural Cayuga County. Within you'll find all manner of traditional games, foods, rides, arts and crafts. Meet interesting people from common washerwomen to the Queen herself, and enjoy special theme weekends like the Pirate Invasion and the Highland Fling. Warwickshire's many denizens remain solidly in character at all times, and they love engaging with visitors. This is the premier upstate Renaissance festival, and is often counted among the best in the entire country.
The Sterling Stage, started in 1996, features what they call a "Kampitheater"—for your admission price, you get four days of music and a campsite where you can set up a tent and commune with your fellow music lovers. The lineup tends toward folk, roots music, and jam bands... pretty much exactly what you'd expect to appeal to the let's-camp-at-a-music-festival crowd.
A variety of accommodations available, from RV sites to cottages to a B&B all to yourself... though for that last one they only accept weekly reservations. Kitchen facilities available, and Wi-Fi throughout the resort.
Four rooms available, each sharing a bath with another. Wi-Fi, refrigerators, cozy shared living room. Two night minimum.
Open since 1910, this is a venerable hotel with B&B-style accommodations. The food, by all accounts, is outstanding, and the hotel's restaurant is quite popular even among those not staying here. The rooms get more mixed reviews; some guests have found problems with upkeep and cleanliness, and the decor is seriously dated. The location is hard to beat, though, and some of the rooms have incredible views looking west over the bay. Closed winters.
The state park has 184 campsites as well as a 30 unit "cabin colony" with central bathroom facilities, and a handful of self-contained cottages with private facilities.
Whether you want sunny or wooded, bayfront or lakefront, this campground on the western promontory between Lake Ontario and Blind Sodus Bay offers quite a variety of camping sites.
Surrounded on three sides by water (Lake Ontario to the north, Blind Sodus Bay to the west, and Little Sodus Bay to the east), this campground has plenty of fishing and boating options nearby, as well as 1500 feet (450 m) of beach. Daily, weekly, and monthly rates.
By road, Fairhaven is on NY state highway 104A, a branch of the 104 highway from Rochester to Oswego. From Syracuse, take NY 481 to Fulton, then NY 3 to its western terminus.
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