Finger Lakes facts for kids

Satellite photo of the Finger Lakes

The Finger Lakes are a series of lakes 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:

• Otisco Lake
• Skaneateles Lake
• Owasco Lake
• Cayuga Lake
• Seneca Lake
• Keuka Lake
• Canandaigua Lake
• Honeoye Lake
• Canadice Lake
• Hemlock Lake
• Conesus Lake

• 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)

Images for kids

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  Map of the Finger Lakes

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  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

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  Seneca Lake, from South Main Street in Geneva, New York.

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  Bluff Point on Keuka Lake

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  Granger Homestead, Canandaigua

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  Canadice Lake is surrounded by the Hemlock–Canadice State Forest.

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  Hemlock Lake, one of the western Finger Lakes

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  Sunrise overlooking a vineyard on Canandaigua Lake

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  Wells College, Aurora

See also

In Spanish: Lagos Finger para niños