3-Day Niagara Falls and Boston Tour from New York with Corning Glass and Harvard

Corning

The first day heads to the Corning Museum of Glass, then on to Niagara Falls, with views of the American, Horseshoe and Bridal Veil Falls. Itinerary: New York, Corning Museum of Glass (optional, 90 minutes), Watkins Glen State Park and the Finger Lakes (optional, 90 minutes, skipped when the park is closed), Niagara Falls night view tour (mandatory, 90 minutes). Notes: 1. Watkins Glen State Park is open in summer, usually April to October. Check the park's official website for exact admission dates. 2. Guests are guaranteed a view of the fireworks over the falls that day, unless no show is scheduled.

Corning Museum of Glass

This museum in western New York is devoted to the history, art and science of glassmaking, with a collection of more than 45,000 objects, some thousands of years old. Visitors can watch the Hot Glass Show, performed by professional glassmakers, and learn how ancient Egyptians made the first glass mask some 3,000 years ago.

Extra fee

Watkins Glen State Park

Optional, 90 minutes, skipped when the park is closed. The park has cut a gorge into the hillside, a cavern-like network of rock formations. In two miles the stream drops 400 feet past 200-foot cliffs, with 19 waterfalls along the way.

Extra fee

Niagara Falls State Park

Niagara Falls night view tour. Niagara Falls is three waterfalls, not one, and it sits in the oldest state park in the United States.

Niagara Falls

The second day is for Niagara Falls, three waterfalls at the southern end of Niagara Gorge on the border between Ontario, Canada, and New York State. Later the bus drives to Boston. Summer itinerary (when the Maid of the Mist is running): Niagara Falls Classic Tour (optional, 2 hours 30 minutes, with Whirlpool Park, Cave of the Winds and the Maid of the Mist), then Boston. Winter itinerary (when the Maid of the Mist is closed): Niagara Falls Classic Tour (optional, 2 hours 30 minutes, with Whirlpool Park, Cave of the Winds and Old Fort Niagara State Park), then Boston. Note: the Maid of the Mist usually closes in winter and is not visited then.

Niagara Falls

Summer itinerary, when the Maid of the Mist is running: Niagara Falls Classic Tour (optional, 2 hours 30 minutes) with Whirlpool Park, Cave of the Winds and the Maid of the Mist.

Extra fee

Niagara Falls State Park

Winter itinerary, when the Maid of the Mist is closed: Niagara Falls Classic Tour (optional, 2 hours 30 minutes) with Whirlpool Park, Cave of the Winds and Old Fort Niagara State Park.

Extra fee

Boston

After Niagara Falls, the bus drives to Boston, about 7 to 8 hours.

Boston

Boston has a long history, and the day opens with a first look at it. Quincy Market comes next, surrounded by dozens of restaurants with a range of local cuisines, including New England clam chowder. Then the bus returns to New York. Itinerary: hotel, the Firsts of America Exploration Tour (mandatory, 3 hours), Quincy Market and a Boston lobster meal (lobster meal optional, 70 minutes), New York. The Firsts of America Exploration Tour: Harvard University (official campus tour, 1 hour), the Old State House (the birthplace of the American Revolution, where the Declaration of Independence was first published), the first subway system, the first public park, the first public botanical garden, and the first large free municipal library funded by the public.

Harvard University

The Firsts of America Exploration Tour: Harvard University (official campus tour, 1 hour), the Old State House (the birthplace of the American Revolution, where the Declaration of Independence was first published), then the first subway system, the first public park, the first public botanical garden and the first large free municipal library funded by the public.