moarally Welcome to Hamburg!
HAMBURG, NEW YORK, STARTED as a settlement called Barkerville, named after the local postmaster. The town of Hamburg came into existence in 1812, and it began to thrive in 1815 as mail routes came through along with new settlers. German settlers started arriving in
the 1830s, but things really picked up in the early 1850s when the Erie Rail- road was built. By the 1890s, Polish and Italian immigrants flowed in to support the railroad and steel industries. While the steel industry has waned
in recent decades, the town is home to about 57,000 people. Hamburg hosts the Erie County Fair—the third-larg- est county fair in the nation—every August on the 275 acre plot where the MOA’s rally will be held. Access to Hamburg is via Interstate
90, which starts in Boston, Mass., and passes through Cleveland, Ohio; Chi- cago, Ill.; Rapid City and Sturgis, S.D.; Billings, Mont. (home of the 2015 MOA rally); and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho (home of a popular MOA Getaway) before terminating over 3,000 miles away in Seattle, Wash. US Highway 62 passes directly through Hamburg; US Highways 20 and 219 are not far off to the east and west, respectively. The fairgrounds are sandwiched between US 62 on the east and McKinley Park- way on the west, with Quinby Drive and Clark Street marking their north- ern and southern limits. The Hamburg region enjoys an
average high temperature of 80° Fahr- enheit (27° C) in July and an average low of 62° F (17° C), meaning that the MOA’s visit should be pleasant. We’ll keep an eye out for the average of three and a quarter inches of rain they get in July, though. Summers in Ham- burg tend to be a little wet, with about a quarter of the region’s annual
104 BMW OWNERS NEWS March 2016 precipitation falling in June, July and
August. This is very little precipitation compared to the lake-effect snowfalls that pummel the region in December, January, February and March, which result in an average total snowfall of 82 inches (nearly seven feet!) in those months. Lake Erie—second smallest of the five
massive freshwater Great Lakes—is only a few miles from Hamburg, and Niagara Falls is a major tourist attraction in the region. Be sure to bring your passport if you want to see the Falls from the Cana- dian side. There are two pro sports teams in the area, the NFL’s Buffalo Bills and the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres, but neither is in sea- son during the rally. Buffalo’s minor league baseball team, the Bisons, will be playing all away games during our visit to Hamburg. Hamburg tourist information can be
found by visiting
www.townofham-
burgny.com, which includes info about the Boies-Lord House Museum, one of the town’s prime tourist attractions (tours by appointment only). Another attraction is Chestnut Ridge Park, a 1,200 acre county park east of Hamburg. The park features tennis courts, hiking trails and even a disc golf course. The Buffalo Phil- harmonic Orchestra occasionally plays concerts at the park, and the Eternal Flame Falls in the park are picturesque. About 80 miles from Chestnut Ridge is
Mendon Ponds Park, a 2,500 acre National Natural Landmark. The park’s geography was heavily influenced by the waxing and waning of glaciers
Hamburg distances: and has features
unique to the area, such as a floating sphagnum moss peat bog. Anybody with a fishing license is welcome to fish at Mendon Ponds, too. Hamburg features a variety of food
opportunities; a quick search on Yelp turned up the town’s top 10 restaurants, which include Daniel’s, Savory’s,
Waterstone Grill, Cozy Thai, Juicy and more.
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13 miles from Buffalo 110 miles from Toronto 160 miles from Syracuse 180 miles from Cleveland 360 miles from Washington, D.C. 370 miles from New York City 400 miles from Montreal 730 miles from St. Louis 1,030 miles from Jacksonville 1,530 miles from Key West 1,550 miles from Austin 1,780 miles from Billings 1,850 miles from Saskatoon 2,480 miles from Mexico City 2,530 miles from Los Angeles 2,600 miles from Seattle 4,100 miles from Anchorage
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