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The Finger Lakes are a group of eleven long, narrow, roughly north–south lakes located directly south of Lake Ontario in an area called the Finger Lakes region in New York, in the United States. This region straddles the northern and transitional edge of the Northern Allegheny Plateau , known as the Finger Lakes Uplands and Gorges ecoregion ...
The Finger Lakes National Forest is a United States National Forest that encompasses 16,259 acres (65.80 km 2) of Seneca and Schuyler counties, nestled between Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes Region of the State of New York. It has over 30 miles (50 km) of interconnecting trails that traverse gorges, ravines, pastures, and ...
Map showing Seneca Lake and the other Finger Lakes in relation to Lake Ontario and upstate New York For comparison, Scotland's famous Loch Ness is 22.5 miles (36.2 km) long, 1.7 miles (2.7 km) wide, has a surface area of 21.8 square miles (56 km 2 ), an average depth of 433 feet (132 m), a maximum depth of 744.6 feet (227.0 m), and total volume ...
The primary attractions of the park are the hiking trails with views of a stream and five waterfalls, in addition to the swimming pond, made by damming the stream. [5] It also features a replica of President Millard Fillmore's boyhood log cabin, as the park is about five miles (8 km) from the former president's birthplace.
The barge leaked oil into the river for more than a day. The spill was carried-over an 80-mile (130 km) section of the St. Lawrence River, by the river’s swift current. Shoreline, wildlife, rocks, and boats were covered with oil, as far downriver as Massena, New York and Brockville, Ontario. [2] Oil penetrated into extensive marshland areas. [3]
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To its west are other minor Finger Lakes: Canadice Lake, Hemlock Lake, and Conesus Lake. As with the other Finger Lakes, Honeoye Lake was created by the advance and subsequent melting of continental glaciation. The lake's surface is 804 feet (245 m) above sea level. The lake is long and narrow with a roughly north-south orientation, and a ...