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Adventures
- Empire State Trail
- 75% off-road multi-use route that links 27 New York counties across 750 miles.
- New York’s Finger Lakes Region
- On the drive along Highway 20 from Avon to Cardiff you’ll experience an array of glacier-carved marvels. Ice-age remnants range from deep gorges and soaring waterfalls to the region’s main attraction: 11 long slivers of lakes, the longest, Cayuga, reaches 38 miles in length, while neighbouring Seneca Lake is 618 feet deep, one of the deepest in the USA.
- Finger Lakes Trail
- Passes through Finger Lakes National Forest (below)
- Letchworth State Park
- US$10 entrance fee
- Gorge Trail
- Geneva (Google Maps), on Seneca Lake’s northern end, is a good location to base camp in that area
- Seneca Lake State Park
- Seneca Lake Loop, a 78-mile bike trail that runs along its namesake – Starts in Geneva
- Around the Farm Trail
- a 33-mile cycle route across rolling hills through the Finger Lakes’ farmlands
- Cayuga-Seneca Canal Trail
- Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
- Erie Canalway Trail
- 365-mile, mostly off-road multipurpose trail, that follows the Erie Canal
- Seneca Lake State Park
- Central New York’s best biking runs just east of the Finger Lakes region
- The 235-mile Triple Divide Trail System is a mixed-surface path that connects Rochester and central Pennsylvania.
- Watkins Glen State Park (Finger Lakes Region site) (Google Maps)
- Boasts having 19 waterfalls
- Watkins Glen International is near (Google Maps)
- Finger Lakes National Forest (Google Maps)
- Camping is free throughout Finger Lakes National Forest, with three developed campgrounds and primitive campsites and shelters.
- 30 hiking trail miles
- Burnt Hill Loop – 4 miles
- Finger Lakes Trail
- Interloken Trail – 12-miles
- Taughannock Falls State Park
- Rim Trail Loop, a 2.7-mile hike to the falls
- Popular paddling destination
- Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
- 10,000-acre sanctuary
- Resource » Outside Magazine article