Visiting Lynah guide

[KenP]

I'm planning my first visit to Lynah in over 20 years. Dartmouth and maybe Sucks. Looking for advice to plan the trip.

Where to park and when to get there?

Best sections for seating?

Easy food choices?  (I'll be with my daughter and niece so no bars)

What cheers are most common nowadays?

Any other thoughts for a nice weekend visit?

Thanks for any suggestions. I'll probably have my Shane Hynes sweater on. Feel free to stop and say hi.

[RobinL]

Great questions.

Also, is there a reason the CU ticket office isn't selling single game tickets until ~ 4 days before?  Is that due to the Pick 5 option this year?

[Jim Hyla]

I'm planning my first visit to Lynah in over 20 years. Dartmouth and maybe Sucks. Looking for advice to plan the trip.

Where to park and when to get there?

Best sections for seating?

Easy food choices?  (I'll be with my daughter and niece so no bars)

What cheers are most common nowadays?

Any other thoughts for a nice weekend visit?

Thanks for any suggestions. I'll probably have my Shane Hynes sweater on. Feel free to stop and say hi.

1/2-1 hour before will probably get you parking off Tower Road, behind Alumni Fields. It's easy in and out.

Don't know what tickets they have available, but all seats are reasonable.

Food and others, I'll let the locals answer.

[jts15]

I went out last year.  They were selling tickets on Tuesdays before that weekend's games.  I don't know the reasoning but I don't believe there was a pick 5 last year.

My kids really liked Waffle Frolic (Commons) and Luna Inspired Street Food (Just off the Commons). Both are very casual, laid back places.

[upprdeck]

parking depends on the game.  harvard will be a royal pain.. employee day games all day, bball wrestling too, sometimes i have to park down beyond the dairy in the corner lot on busy days.

CU decided selling no tickets better than letting people plan for games in advance.. the pick 5 is a nice idea but they locked all the tickets and didnt promote it so they sold very few. i think some have moved since this weekend though

still 1-200 left for the harvard game at this point.

in past yrs they have season ticket holders early promotion for the harvard game buy not this yr and no email about the promotion either.

[Iceberg]

Some of the Ag Quad academic building lots should be permit-free after 5 PM on weekdays and all day during the weekends. Easy walk to the rink and should be easy to get out

[KenP]

Thanks for the parking advice. How are the concessions from a price and heartburn perspective?  I'm assuming we cannot bring food in with us?

[upprdeck]

Concessions are limited. Pared down even more this yr.

hot dogs
chips
popcorn
pretzels
soda
coffee
hot choc
candy
nachos
some special things  i think Pizza

sometimes the ice cream booths are open

[marty]

Thanks for the parking advice. How are the concessions from a price and heartburn perspective?  I'm assuming we cannot bring food in with us?

Fish and octopi are considered as bring your own on Saturday.

[billhoward]

The older you are and the bulkier of a parka you wear, the more food one can bring in, within reason. I think Cornell has plenty to eat and prices are okay. This is not Madison Square Garden and the $11 pretzel, or T-Mobile Arena (Las Vegas) and $17 beers / $26 specialty cocktails. The concourse between Lynah Rink and where they play basketball (which is not Barton Hall) has room to stretch your legs, buy stuff, and not wait in line to go pee. Cornell now has created more spaces indoors for times when it's cold.

PSP has an extensive selection of hats, tees, LS tees, scarves, etcetera, and they are quite affordable. I use their concession to stock up on the Cornell hats I've left on planes, in theaters, etcetera.

If you bring a grade school kid with you, you may find some of the cheers a little crude.

If you want to show a youngster the restaurant / bar you frequented in Collegetown, the answer is: It's gone. The food that's there is Asian / fusion. Old farts (Boomers) who lived on pizza and Italian food and thought Chinese food was exotic, this is a whole 'nother Collegetown. Also, the students are smarter than I was, and possibly the rest of us. My programming skills stopped at creating 4-up dBase II mailing labels and suppressing blank address lines. Today's freshmen wrote iPhone apps to monintor grandma's glucose levels.

If your kid asks what was that word screamed out, the answer is "firetruck" or "beats-it."

The Farmers Market near the lake is popular just not open until we're back to sweatshirt-not-parka weather. The Piggery on Route 13 semi-near Purity has incredible pork products, especially the sausages and brined chops. There are a lot restaurants downtown you won't recognize and if you go into a couple of them, you suspect there continues to be a cadre of affluent students including ever more affluent international students.

[The Rancor]

Just go get Hot Truck. now available 24/7 at Short Stop. otherwise, the commons has more food options than you can imagine.

[nmcorm83]

If you want to show a youngster the restaurant / bar you frequented in Collegetown, the answer is: It's gone.

They're not ALL gone - I had dinner at Rulloffs before the Friday Northern Michigan game. Unfortunately, the building that they are in will be torn down in June. College Town Bagels will move across the street to Sheldon Court, but it's not clear if Rulloffs will find another location.

[Dafatone]

Just go get Hot Truck. now available 24/7 at Short Stop. otherwise, the commons has more food options than you can imagine.

Unless they've updated the menu, Short Stop Hot Truck was never as good as actual Hot Truck.

RIP Hot Truck. The only house that consistently ordered delivery in 2004 will miss you.

[billhoward]

The tickets went pretty fast this year. And it was a strain on the capacity of the universityticketing engine Cornell uses.

If you were shut out: I have also had good luck finding an odd ticket getting to the rink an hour before gametime (the Harvard game) and just asking people over and over, but not this year since my wife is coming along too. But I haven't tried that in a season when Cornell is the #1 rated team. Which would be, like, 2003. (It did work at Yale the fall after the champsionship season; I got one ticket at face value and my son in a Cornell hockey jersey got one free from a - was this man drunk? - Yale alum just before the game started. On the other hand, Cornell is just rolling with the supply/demand curve.

Next year I might just swallow hard, buy the five pack times two people, find one more weekend to come back (not a big problem), and then donate the unused fifth game ticket back to the U. But then I suppose this also encourages the bastards.

[upprdeck]

and of course the weather could turn into a major issue if the storm thats trying to build actually comes to fruition. lots wont be plowed and employee day people will be filling lots all over