Chautauqua Travel Guide

Stepping through the gates of Chautauqua, New York, is like pushing aside the pages of history, like so much underbrush in the forest of time.  Chautauqua is a city that is found within the gates of the Chautauqua Institution, founded in 1874 by Methodist minister (and later, bishop) John Heyl Vincent, as a summer training camp for Sunday school teachers.

An amazing array of architecture, graphic arts, performing arts, music, and religion is cultivated as Chautauqua's main import and export alike.  It is open to the public for nine weeks in the summer for programming of all sorts of cultural, educational, and entertainment events.  Many families from New York and surrounding states own homes there where they spend their time in the summer.