Cayuga Lake is the longest of central New York's glacial Finger Lakes, and is the second largest in surface area and second largest in volume. It is just under 39 miles (63 km) long. Its average width is 1.7 miles (2.8 km), and it is 3.5 mi wide (5.6 km) at its widest point, near Aurora. It is approximately 435 ft deep (133 m) at its deepest point, and has over 95 miles (153 km) of shoreline.
Cayuga Lake as viewed in the late afternoon from Cornell University in November 2005
Winter view of the head of Cayuga Lake
AES Cayuga, on the eastern shore of the lake
Cornell West Campus and Cayuga Lake, as seen from McGraw Tower
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, and the Ontario Lowlands ecoregion of the Great Lakes Lowlands.
Satellite view of the Finger Lakes region in late fall. Lake Ontario at the top left.
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
Seneca Lake, from South Main Street in Geneva, New York.
Bluff Point on Keuka Lake
