Cooperstown Travel Information
The drive to Cooperstown is not a straight highway line from one
city to another, but a minor experience in itself. The small town of
about 2,300 is surrounded by hills, which you will pass through and
over as you arrive. This is baseball town. Cooperstown is the home of
the first baseball diamond in the world, the Doubleday Field, and the
first baseball game was played here in 1839. If you walk along Main
Street, you will see store after store offering baseball t-shirts,
baseball bats, baseball caps. Anything you can buy related to the game
can be found on Main. You can also find the National Baseball
Hall of Fame and Museum on Main Street. You’ll find baseball history
writ large over a display 50,000 feet square, as well as other
exhibits. The town is also famous for James Fenimore Cooper,
famous American author, whose father founded and named Cooperstown.
Fenimore Cooper named the local Otsego Lake “Glimmerglass,” by which
it is better known. The Farmer’s Museum was once Cooper’s working farm
and the Fenimore Art Museum is named for him. The latter is famed to
be one of the best collections of American folk art.
Cooperstown is 65 miles from Albany via Routes 20 and 88. Look
at the navigational bar at the left-hand side of the site for more
information about Cooperstown.
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