There are many hidden treasures and exciting places to visit in Rochester, plus an abundant variety of professional sporting events to pick from. Here are a few.

Interesting Places
Mount Hope Cemetary
Seneca Park Zoo

Sport Teams
Rochester Americans
Rochester Red Wings
Rochester Raging Rhinos

Interesting Places

Mount Hope Cemetary

America's First Municipal Victorian Cemetery
Free guided walking tours of the cemetery are led on Sunday afternoons in the spring, summer, and fall (May-October) by our staff of experienced volunteer guides. Every Sunday, rain or shine, tours begin at 2 PM and 3 PM. The Gatehouse is open at this time for questions, or stop by just to look around. Formed by glaciers, this cemetery has high hills and deep valleys, winding eskers and almost bottomless kettles. The whole place is a forest of trees, many of them rare and specimen. Since 1838, a third of a million people have taken permanent residence in the cemetery's 197 acres. There are mausoleums dug deep into hillsides and everywhere myriad symbols of Victorian funerary art. In stone and bronze are soaring Egyptian obelisks, miniature Greek temples (one sleeps 20 with a lot of dancing room left over), winged angels of mercy, draped urns and broken columns, Gothic towers, and sculptures of everything from Christian saints to favorite pet dogs. They all gloriously decorate more than 350,000 graves that through the sea of vertical monuments, send a mighty chorus of hope heavenward. In fall and winter, Mount Hope becomes a rookery, and the trees appear to be fully leafed with the black bodies of crows. In summer, a high 1875 Florentine fountain cascades water from lions' mouths down through three basins held up by cast-iron caryatids.

Seneca Park Zoo

The Seneca Park Zoo is owned and operated by Monroe County. The Seneca Park Zoo Society is a not-for-profit organization that has, since 1957, provided education, fund raising, special events and public relations support to Monroe County's Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester, New York. The Seneca Park Zoo is accredited by the distinguished American Zoo and Aquarium Association.

Sports Teams

Rochester Americans

The Amerks hochey team have been associated with Rochester for forty years and produced over ten championship teams.

Rochester Red Wings

Rochester Raging Rhinos

The defending A-League champion Rochester Raging Rhinos will open the 2001 season at Frontier Field on Saturday, May 5 at 7:35 p.m. against the Connecticut Wolves.