Lake Erie Wine Country & Chautauqua: The Northeast Ohio Shore

The Lake Erie shore east of Cleveland runs along the Grand River wine corridor into Pennsylvania and the Chautauqua Lake region of New York. Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio, is one of the oldest summer resort communities in the Midwest (established 1869); the surrounding Grand River valley has become the most concentrated wine appellation east of the Finger Lakes. Chautauqua Institution, 2.5 hours east in western New York, is a 19th-century educational and cultural summer community that has run an uninterrupted program of lectures, concerts, and education since 1874 — the most unusual cultural destination in the eastern United States, with a Victorian resort town of 7,500 residents who live in a 9-week lecture and performance series.