Upstate New York Trip Part II — Women’s Rights National Historical Park
(Translated from the Chinese version with the help of ChatGPT.)
Picking up from last time: after leaving the Cornell campus, we drove north for about an hour along the west side of Cayuga Lake and arrived at Seneca Falls.
The Finger Lakes
The eleven Finger Lakes (blue markers). Nearby smaller lakes even have 'matching' nicknames — the two tiny ones in the lower right black box are sometimes called the 'fingernail lakes,' and Oneida Lake in the upper right red box is occasionally dubbed the 'thumb lake.'
From the map, you can see a series of long, narrow, north–south oriented lakes in this area — aptly named the Finger Lakes.1 Among them, Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake are the largest. Of course, they’re still dwarfed by Lake Ontario to the north, one of the Great Lakes.