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# Lackawanna

Lackawanna is a city in Erie County, New York, United States, just south of the city of Buffalo in western New York State.

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## Every way there

- Rochester → Lackawanna 105 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · $10–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/rochester-to-lackawanna) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Rochester&to=Lackawanna)
- Syracuse → Lackawanna 219 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · $19–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/syracuse-to-lackawanna) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Syracuse&to=Lackawanna)
- Pittsburgh → Lackawanna 283 km · quickest by road, 4h 19m · $27–37 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/pittsburgh-to-lackawanna) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Pittsburgh&to=Lackawanna)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Lackawanna, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Lackawanna has

- Y Scheduled flights Buffalo (BUF), 15 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

42.819°, -78.826°

The population was 19,949 at the 2020 census. It is one of the fastest-growing cities in New York, growing in population by 10% from 2010 to 2020. It is part of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area. The city of Lackawanna is in the western part of Erie County.

How locals move

## Getting around Lackawanna the local way

- Get in and around From Memorial Day through Columbus Day, you can also get to the Outer Harbor from Canalside via the Queen City Bike Ferry; the fare is $1.

From [Wikivoyage: Buffalo/South Buffalo](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Buffalo%2FSouth_Buffalo), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lackawanna%2C_New_York), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: King of Hearts (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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