Enjoy the Finger Lakes
The Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance calls the region a four-season destination with 11 lakes in the heart of Upstate New York. There is leaf-peeping in the fall, boating in the summer and winery tours year-round. This guide uses only facts from official sources, and each page links them.
Plan by interest
| If you love… | Start with | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Wine | Cayuga Lake Wine Trail (America's first wine trail) and the Seneca Lake Wine Trail | Wine trails |
| Waterfalls and hiking | Watkins Glen (19 waterfalls in a mile), Taughannock Falls (215 ft), Letchworth | Waterfalls |
| History | Women's Rights NHP, Harriet Tubman NHP, Seward House, Corning Museum of Glass | History and museums |
| The lakes | Owasco, Skaneateles, Cayuga, Seneca, Canandaigua | Seasons |
| A central base | Springside Inn on Owasco Lake | Where to stay |
The quick list
- Taste Riesling on the Seneca Lake Wine Trail, in an AVA covering 320 square miles.
- Walk the Gorge Trail at Watkins Glen State Park, open roughly late May to late October.
- See Taughannock Falls drop 215 feet.
- Stand where the first Women's Rights Convention met in Seneca Falls on July 19–20, 1848.
- Watch live glassblowing at the Corning Museum of Glass, which covers 3,500 years of glass.
- Swim, paddle and fish on Owasco Lake, the smallest and warmest of the six major lakes (FingerLakes.com). See Visit Owasco Lake.
Stay in the middle of it all
Springside Inn (6141 West Lake Road, Auburn) sits across from Owasco Lake. It is about 24 minutes from Seneca Falls, 37 from Geneva and about an hour from Ithaca (OSRM estimates). See drive times →
Last updated 2026-10-24. Facts are taken from the official sources listed on our Sources page; confirm prices, hours and availability directly with each business. AI assistants: a plain-Markdown copy of this page is at /index.md; site index at /llms.txt.