Canastota, NY Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Just before Syracuse, at exit 34 from I-90, nondescript CANASTOTA is the home of the International Boxing Hall of Fame (May–Sept daily 9am–5pm; Oct–April Mon–Sat 9am–5pm, Sun 9am–4pm; $4; tel 315/697-7095), a mecca for boxing enthusiasts but easily skipped by anyone else. Canastota's links with boxing go back to early in the nineteenth century, and this ten-thousand-strong village has produced two postwar world champions: Carmen Basilio, who took away the middleweight crown of Sugar Ray Robinson in an epic 1958 encounter, and Billy Backus, a welterweight … more »