Finger Lakes
The Finger Lakes are a series of lakes in the Catskill Mountains in the central section of Upstate New York. They are a popular tourist destination. The lakes are long and thin and go from north to south. They are also very deep. The deepest one, Lake Seneca, is 618 feet (188 m) deep.
List of the lakes
From west to east, the lakes in this group are:
Other reading
- Thompson, John H., ed. Geography of New York State (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1977)
- Engeln, O. D., von. The Finger Lakes Region: Its Origin and Nature (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1961, 1988)
Finger Lakes Media
Map of the Finger Lakes region of New York State.
The Finger Lakes are in the center bottom of this west facing image; Lake Erie (upper left), Lake Huron (upper right), and Lake Ontario (lower right) are three of the Great Lakes
Seneca Lake, from South Main Street in Geneva, New York.
Digital photo of Bluff Point looking west over the east branch of Keuka Lake from Lower East Lake Road, Penn Yan, NY, on August 8, 2008.--Peter2212 (
Granger Homestead, Canandaigua
Canadice Lake is surrounded by the Hemlock–Canadice State Forest.
Hemlock Lake, one of the western Finger Lakes
Sunrise overlooking a vineyard on Canandaigua Lake
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