Finger Lakes - Rochester, NY area 

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Consider the Finger Lakes and how each affects our local environment.   

 

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Finger LakesThe Rochester area is near all eleven of the Finger Lakes.  These lakes not only make our area one of the most beautiful, they also frame the environment as one of water and wetlands and thousands of plant and wildlife conducive to this type of ecology. 

Finger Lakes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "The Finger Lakes are a chain of lakes in the west-central section of Upstate New York that are a popular tourist destination. The lakes mainly are linear in shape, each lake oriented on a north-south axis. The two longest, Cayuga Lake and Seneca Lake, are among the deepest in America. Both are close to 40 miles (64 km) from end to end, but never more than 3.5 miles (5,600 m) wide. Cayuga is the longest (38.1 miles, 61.3 km), but Seneca the largest in total area. Seneca is the deepest (618 feet, 188.4 m), followed by Cayuga (435 feet, 132.6 m), with the bottoms well below sea level. These largest lakes resemble the others in shape, which collectively reminded early map-makers of the fingers of a hand. Oneida Lake is generally not considered one of the Finger Lakes, but it is sometimes called the "thumb". "

 

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Finger Lakes in the local media

The NewsLinks below refer to NewsLinks on the collective lakes region.  For separate NewsLinks for each lake, go to the individual lakes pages.   

 

The Finger Lakes

(Of course, these are not all of the eleven Finger Lakes, but only the lakes that have appeared in Rochester-area news.)

  • Honeoye Lake  Get photographs of this Finger Lake, news, and resources, which include various environmental groups which help to maintain the health of this lake.
  • Cayuga Lake Get photographs of this Finger Lake, news, and resources, which include various environmental groups which help to maintain the health of this lake.
  • Canandaigua Lake Get photographs of this Finger Lake, news, and resources, which include various environmental groups which help to maintain the health of this lake.
  • Seneca Lake Get photographs of this Finger Lake, news, and resources, which include various environmental groups which help to maintain the health of this lake.
  • Keuka Lake  Get photographs of this Finger Lake, news, and resources, which include various environmental groups which help to maintain the health of this lake.
  • Conesus Lake Conesus Lake is one of Western New York's smaller Finger Lakes
  • Hemlock Lake Located in southeast Livingston County, Hemlock Lake lies 25 miles south of Rochester. Hemlock is one of the two Finger Lakes whose shorelines are virtually undeveloped
  • Canadice Lake Located in southwest Ontario County, Canadice Lake lies 30 miles south of Rochester. It is the smallest of the Finger Lakes whose shorelines are virtually undeveloped.