Home to Lake Erie Wine Country, Buffalo, Barcelona, Dunkirk and Niagara Falls, there is no shortage of ways to discover the best that our Great Lake has to offer in Western New York. Located about 15 miles off of the Lake Erie coast, another epicenter of excellence exists in Chautauqua Lake, featuring the world-renowned Chautauqua Institution and Jamestown's National Comedy Center, voted one of the world's greatest places by Time Magazine.