Onondaga Park — Attraction in Town of Salina

We spent a long weekend with our grandchildren ages 7 and 11 in Syracuse and were delighted to spend part of it at Onondaga Lake. While it appears not to be a good swimming spot it certainly makes up for this in having very creative activities on its shores. The Salt Museum, though very small, gives kids a chance to see a film on salt production in the area and has remnants of the brine pots and models of the manufacture of salt. Our kids were delighted to see salt in its raw form and to see the fire pits which heated the pots. A visit to a reproduction early colonial village at Sainte Marie was instructive with carpenter's shop, early kitchen and museum. Seeing table construction from beginning to end was an eye-opener for our...

Lower onondaga park have so much yard when they rebuilt the park they didn't do anything interesting, the kids don't really have fun there they get bored after a while of swinging on the swings and sliding in the slides because there's not anything for them to do or play with. Compared to all other parks this park is nothing, they should have just left it the way it was before they touched it. The water sprinkler should have been built bigger than it is because in the summertime it gets so crowded that you have to wait hours before you or your kids can go under the sprinklers ,Would have been nice if more exercise machines was added...

In the more interesting parts of Syracuse lies this guilty pleasure called Onondaga Park. Very beautiful landscape and architecture and I recommend if you live around the area or just visiting to take pictures here. It reminds me of my childhood experiences in parks similar to this (if you've ever walked around Seneca lake near Geneva, I'm talking about that place) and it feels like my home away from home after all the business and hustling in the city. I recommend to visit it, but it may be hard finding a place to park as the roads here are weird. It was...