Welcome to Homecoming 2009
To all our friends that have gone away, we want you to know how much we miss you and want you to come home!…even if it is just for a short visit!
Please join your Cataract City friends and family for the first annual citywide reunion 
Niagara Homecoming Citybration – June 25-28, 2009!
The four days will be filled with a bevy of free or low-cost events. Please navigate these pages and plan out your long weekend. It’s time to invite back the 50,000 residents who have left over the past five decades and remind them of why Niagara Falls is such a great place to live.
Can you imagine a pizza tastier than that produced by Aldo at La Hacienda? A better steak and cheese sub than Mrs. Mariposa makes out on Military Road? Try to find a beef on weck or Haddock fish fry outside of Western New York. The Como is known from coast to coast, and John’s Flaming Hearth can’t be beat for food quality and ambiance.
Want a view with your meal? Schimschack’s offers a panoramic look over the dales of Sanborn. Mark Turgeon’s Riverside Inn allows you to drink in the lower Niagara along with a glass of Chablis from their award-winning wine cellar. Let’s not forget the Falls themselves. The Penthouse Restaurant high atop the Sheraton on the Falls in Ontario brings together views of all three waterfalls with an exquisite all-you-can-eat buffet.
If none of the activities we have planned for you this weekend, perhaps you might enjoy:
1. Climb down the Devil’s Hole–or lesser known Vanderbilt–steps to the bottom of the Niagara Gorge.
2. Stand on Hurricane Deck at the Cave of the Winds and take off your hood.
3. Hop on board the Whirlpool Jetboat and experience the rapids up close and personal.
4. Cross the bridge to Canada and stroll through the grounds of the Botanical Gardens.
5. Go to the precipice of Whirlpool State Park and watch the world’s largest whirlpool swirl below you.
Created by Niagara Rises the Niagara Homecoming Celebration promises to be the best time to invite back your loved ones to the city of their youth.
Read Also: History of Niagara Homecoming
Come on up for the rising!
“Citybration is a family-friendly, smoke-free event”
