Seneca Falls and Cayuga Lake New York
NYS Boat Canal in Seneca Falls NY There are many really beautiful parts of NY State, but one of my favorites is the Finger Lakes Region. It is an area of the state that has natural beauty and fascinating past. It has an important place in history and it is unique in its geology. I like traveling around this area because you can start the day in a town like Seneca Falls, home to the Women’s Rights Movement, have lunch at a winery sitting along a beautiful lake, and finish the day in Ithaca, a town that sits in a gorge with lovely waterfalls all around it. The Finger Lakes are a group of 11 long thin lakes that run basically north-south in the western part of New York State. They started as north-flowing rivers, and were formed by the movement of glaciers from north to south and then back again during the last ice-ages. As a result the Finger Lakes include two of the deepest lakes in the United States – Cayuga Lake is 453 feet deep, which means that its bottom is actu...