Amherst
Worth seeing in and around Amherst
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01University at Buffalo
University with campuses in and around Buffalo and Amherst, New York
2.6 km · Wikipedia - 02New York's 26th congressional district
U.S. House District in Buffalo and Niagara Falls, NY
3.8 km · Wikipedia - 03Blessed Trinity Roman Catholic Church Buildings
Church building in New York, United States of America
5.8 km · Wikipedia - 04
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- 10Former Reformed Mennonite Church
Church building in New York, United States of America
3.8 km · Wikipedia
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Getting to Amherst
- Airports
- Buffalo Niagara (BUF), 7 km · Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester (ROC), 93 km · John C. Munro Hamilton (YHM), 94 km
- Stations
- Amherst Street, 5.3 km · University, 3.1 km
- Rochester → Amherst98 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · $9–12
- Syracuse → Amherst216 km · quickest by road, 3h · $18–25
- Pittsburgh → Amherst299 km · quickest by road, 4h 33m · $29–39
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Amherst
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Amherst. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get in and aroundHumboldt Parkway, from which you can get to the Cold Spring business district and Masten Park via East Ferry and East Utica Streets.
- Get in and aroundThe East Side's major east-west crosstown routes are, from north to south: East Amherst Street, East Delavan Avenue, East Ferry Street, East Utica Street, and finally Best Street, which turns into Walden Avenue at its junction with Genesee Street in front of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Get in and aroundElsewhere, parking in the Cold Spring business district is limited to one hour on weekdays between 7AM and 7PM along Jefferson Avenue between East Ferry and Riley Streets, and in Delavan-Grider to two hours on weekdays between 7AM and 7PM along Grider Street from the Kensington Expressway ramps to East Ferry Street.
- Get in and aroundTurning right on Fillmore Avenue, the bus meanders its way through Humboldt Park and Genesee-Moselle via French, Kehr, and East Ferry Streets before turning northward, serving Delavan-Bailey and Kensington-Bailey via Bailey Avenue, Langfield Drive, and Eggert Road.
- Get in and aroundTurning westward down East Ferry Street and from there southward on Main Street, the route proceeds through Hamlin Park, Cold Spring, and Masten Park before ending at the Utica Metro Rail Station.
From Wikivoyage: Buffalo/East Side, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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