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Finger Lakes
Ithaca, Watkins Glen and Corning pair waterfall country with lakefront breaks and remarkable museums.
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Finger Lakes, a little closer.
Ithaca, Watkins Glen and Corning pair waterfall country with lakefront breaks and remarkable museums. Choose a base, then check seasonal gorge access and actual travel time between the lakes.
Highlighted counties locate these featured towns. These six WTDO discovery areas are editorial groupings. Markers indicate approximate town centers, not entrances or driving routes. Select a town to open its guide. County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau.
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Photo credits & visitor sources
Real New York photographs. Photo dates vary; images illustrate places, not current weather or operating conditions.
- Ithaca Falls on Fall Creek, one of two prominent cascades that support a local slogan, "Ithaca is Gorges" (a play on the word "gorgeous") in Ithaca, New York — Carol M. Highsmith. Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- Watkins Glen State Park - 050 - Gorge Trail - Rainbow Bridge and Rainbow Falls.jpg — Photo by Joe Mabel. Photograph by Joe Mabel CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York — Carol M. Highsmith. Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
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County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb, New York FIPS36. Six WTDO areas are editorial discovery groupings.