Birkmayer's Travel Agency

All aboard! Invite your friends for a train ride through the Adirondack Mountains and along the Hudson River to enjoy breathtaking views, great food and good conversation. The Saratoga and North Creek Railway offer packages that include trips to area shops, art galleries and restaurants at its premier destination Gore Mountain.

Explore an underground adventure! Step inside an elevator to travel 156 feet underground to enter a prehistoric cave in the making for a mere 6 million years. Howe Caverns Adventure Park is home to the most remarkable and mesmerizing limestone. The stalactites, stalagmites and flowstone formations are the best you'll ever see.

Escape with someone special on a romantic hot-air balloon ride. Adirondack Balloon Flights float over breathtaking vistas of the Adirondacks, Lake George, Saratoga Springs Region of New York and the Green Mountains of Vermont. Soar with a 30-year-old company that goes to great heights to make sure couples enjoy the date of a lifetime.

All aboard! The New Netherland Museum operates The Half Moon, a ship of exploration that sailed from Holland to the New World in 1609. Learn about the travels of Captain Henry Hudson, a famous explorer of Arctic waters and his exploits across Asia. Step onto what seems like a pirate ship for a different kind of museum adventure.