Christine A. Smyczynski is a native western New Yorker with a longtime interest in regional history and local attractions. In addition to being the author of several travel guides about western New York and New York State, she is the author of hundreds of articles about the region. She writes regularly for Forever Young Magazine and Buffalo Spree and contributes to Western New York Family Magazine and several other publications. In addition, she has written numerous travel articles for the Buffalo News.
She has also written for the National Catholic Register, Rochester Magazine, and a number of other local and regional publications. Mrs. Smyczynski lives outside of Buffalo, NY with her husband. They have four adult children.
Her latest book, Backroads and Byways of Upstate New York (second edition) was released in July 2025. The first edition of Backroads and Byways of Upstate New York came out in September 2017 and Explorer's Guide Buffalo & Niagara Falls in May 2018. She is also the author of Western New York Explorer's Guide (2005,2008).
Please take a look around the website to read some of her travel articles that have been published over the years.
There is also a blog on this website, see the above header bar for the link to that page.
Follow this link to her previous blog http://www.explorewesternnewyork.blogspot.com
Check out this great video about Buffalo put together in August 2019 by Cushman Wakefield
http://video.cushmanwakefield.com/watch/8DLDceWWEYJCxRPagFZqhT?custom_id&fbclid=IwAR1iMGr_1c6zbGzgnEsghJwfUlxvpzqsgLDwWWlYrUyTyhgfKUt53Q6N-KI
She has also written for the National Catholic Register, Rochester Magazine, and a number of other local and regional publications. Mrs. Smyczynski lives outside of Buffalo, NY with her husband. They have four adult children.
Her latest book, Backroads and Byways of Upstate New York (second edition) was released in July 2025. The first edition of Backroads and Byways of Upstate New York came out in September 2017 and Explorer's Guide Buffalo & Niagara Falls in May 2018. She is also the author of Western New York Explorer's Guide (2005,2008).
Please take a look around the website to read some of her travel articles that have been published over the years.
There is also a blog on this website, see the above header bar for the link to that page.
Follow this link to her previous blog http://www.explorewesternnewyork.blogspot.com
Check out this great video about Buffalo put together in August 2019 by Cushman Wakefield
http://video.cushmanwakefield.com/watch/8DLDceWWEYJCxRPagFZqhT?custom_id&fbclid=IwAR1iMGr_1c6zbGzgnEsghJwfUlxvpzqsgLDwWWlYrUyTyhgfKUt53Q6N-KI
