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This is a list of lakes in the state of New York in the United States.Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all. Beaverdam Lake Great Sacandaga Lake Lake Champlain Lake Flower Lake Kanawauke Lake Placid Lower Saranac Lake Notch Lake Lake Otsego Upper St Regis Lake Upper Saranac Lake looking north
The Finger Lakes are a group of eleven long, narrow, roughly north–south lakes located directly south of Lake Ontario in an area called the Finger Lakes region in New York, in the United States. This region straddles the northern and transitional edge of the Northern Allegheny Plateau, known as the Finger Lakes Uplands and Gorges ecoregion ...
Oneida Lake. Oneida Lake is the largest lake entirely within New York state, with a surface area of 79.8 square miles (207 km 2). [1][2] The lake is located northeast of Syracuse and near the Great Lakes. It feeds the Oneida River, a tributary of the Oswego River, which flows into Lake Ontario. From the earliest times until the opening of the ...
Onondaga Lake is a dimictic lake, [3] meaning that the lake water completely mixes from top to bottom twice a year. The lake is 4.6 miles (7.4 km) long and 1 mile (1.6 km) wide making a surface area of 4.6 square miles (12 km 2). [3] The maximum depth of the lake is 63 feet (19 m) with an average depth of 35 feet (11 m). [4]
Map showing Seneca Lake and the other Finger Lakes in relation to Lake Ontario and upstate New York For comparison, Scotland's famous Loch Ness is 22.5 miles (36.2 km) long, 1.7 miles (2.7 km) wide, has a surface area of 21.8 square miles (56 km 2 ), an average depth of 433 feet (132 m), a maximum depth of 744.6 feet (227.0 m), and total volume ...
Cayuga Lake (/ kəˈjuːɡə /, / keɪˈjuːɡə / or / kaɪˈjuːɡə /) is the longest of central New York 's glacial Finger Lakes, and is the second largest in surface area (marginally smaller than Seneca Lake) and second largest in volume. It is just under 39 miles (63 km) long.
Map showing Skaneateles Lake and the other Finger Lakes in relation to Lake Ontario and upstate New York. Skaneateles Lake is separated from two other nearby Finger Lakes, Otisco and Owasco, by ridges some 600 feet above the waters, affording magnificent prospects on both sides. Much of the highland terrain is forested, with several large ...
Conesus Lake / k ə ˈ n iː ʃ ə s / is located in Livingston County, New York. Conesus Lake is the westernmost of New York's eleven Finger Lakes . It is located off Interstate 390 about 15 miles (24 km) south of Interstate 90 .