Fredonia

Get in

By car

Fredonia is right off exit 59 on the New York State Thruway (I-90), it can also be reached via NYS Route 60 from Jamestown and other parts of Chautauqua County.

By bus

Coach USA (Erie) serves Fredonia with five daily round trips (two on Sunday) to the Buffalo Metropolitan Transportation Center. Bus departs from the Mason Hall traffic circle on the SUNY Fredonia campus, purchase tickets at the main campus box-office in the Williams Center, or when that building is closed, from the driver. At Buffalo, connections can be made to Greyhound, New York Trailways, Megabus.

By plane

Buffalo-Niagara International Airport (BUF) has non-stop, mainline service to many destinations primarily on the east coast, although Southwest has direct flights to Phoenix and Las Vegas. Erie International Airport (ERI) in Northwestern Pennsylvania on the other hand is primarily served by smaller regional carriers. Both are around a 45 minute drive from Fredonia, or from Buffalo you can take NFTA to the Metro Transit Center to grab a bus to Fredonia (see above).

There is also a small airport in the neighboring City of Dunkirk (DKK). There is no scheduled passenger service, but the airport is a viable option for private aviation and charters.

By train

Despite the plethora of rail lines intersecting through Fredonia and Dunkirk, Penn-Central discontinued rail service to Dunkirk in the early 1970s leaving only freight service primarily for the power plant and the City's few remaining factories. Although there are discussions to have Amtrak's existing Lake Shore Limited stop in Dunkirk and the infrastructure (station house and platform) already exist, of 2011 this has yet to materialize. The nearest Amtrak stations are in Buffalo (Buffalo-Depew), with direct service to Boston, Chicago, New York City, Toronto, and many points in between and in Erie, although the latter is unstaffed with the only departures being between midnight and 6AM.

Get around

• Walk - The Village of Fredonia is fairly compact, and most attractions worth seeing, including the University, are easily walkable.
• SUNY Fredonia operates a community shuttle service serving Fredonia. Free if you're a student, faculty or staff member; $0.75 for everybody else.
• Several bus lines of CARTS (Chautauqua Area Regional Transit System) do run through Fredonia. They are not city lines, however, and are more useful for reaching some of the more rural areas of the county rather than travelling point to point in Fredonia.

Go next

• Jamestown
• Buffalo
• Erie
• Canada