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Utica Train station. Very few people and even less Pokemon. |
New Hartford - Commercial Drive
The best spot I've found to find 5-10 Pokemon instantly is the Verizon store on Commercial Drive. Just pull in and park, start the app and you'll find a mess of Pokemon. I've heard this has something to do with past cell/GPS usage as documented in the Niantic game Ingress. Sangertown Mall & Big Apple Music have had some nice rare spawns as well.
Utica - SUNY Polytech
This area was a ghost town in the evening with school out, but there is a nice cluster of Pokestops and a gym between Kunsella Hall, the library and student center. Once school starts this should be a nice hotspot.
Herkimer - Tri-Pokestop park
I headed to Herkimer in search of a Dragonite but had no luck. There was a nice park in the middle of the city with three Pokestops clustered close together, so a great spot to put down three lures and farm for 30 minutes.
Utica - Train station
A lot of the Pokemon I'm missing allegedly spawn near train stations and railroad tracks, but when I visited the Utica station there were not many people and no Pokemon in sight. The Pokestops were also pretty scarce.
Walmarts
Due to cell usage Walmarts are great spots for finding Pokemon. There are supercenters located in New Hartford, Utica, and Herkimer and worth a quick visit if you're out on a trip.
I'm a little sad that I'm nearing the end of my vacation and heading back to work. The game has been great for exploring places I normally wouldn't visit, but with upstate being such a rural area I'm a little disappointed there aren't more random spawns in the wild. I would love to go on a five mile hike in the wilderness and stumble on a Dragonite (as advertised), but know from playing that - outside of parks - this just isn't the case. Hopefully with some more game updates they'll make the game a bit more accessible to rural players.
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