Posted in Activity, Finger Lakes, Lake Ontario, tagged lake, swim, Long Point State Park, pool, Auburn, YMCA, Casey Park, Cato-Meridian Recreation Center, Emerson Park, Fair Haven Beach State Park, Fillmore State Park, Skaneateles Community Center, Skaneateles Lake, Veteran's Memorial Pool, Jordan on July 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Lakes, public pools offer cheap ways stay cool
By David Wilcox / The Auburn Citizen, link to original article
This summer, there are plenty of places where you can dip into the water without dipping into the deep end of your wallet. Whether it’s a state park brushing up against the Finger Lakes and Lake Ontario, public [...]
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Posted in Hiking, History, Lake Ontario, Rochester, tagged new york, Take A Paddle, ny, take a hike, cobblestone quest, ice age, fair haven, glaciers, sodus, oswego, seaway trail, geology, drumlin, Chimney Bluffs, Sodus Bay, Scotts Bluffs, Sitts Bluffs, Port Bay, McIntyre Bluff, bluff, Sterling Nature Center, beach, cobblestones, cobbles, Fair Haven State Park, Sterling Creek on July 10, 2008 | No Comments »
by Susan Peterson Gately
Along Upstate New York’s Seaway Trail between Rochester and Oswego there exists an unusual landform found in only a few locations in North America. Known by geologists as a drumlin field, hundreds of elongate north south oriented hills shape the countryside. Near Fair Haven a number of these drumlins come to an [...]
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Posted in Bird Watching, Discounts, Education / skills, Hiking, Lake Ontario, tagged Birds of the Great Lakes, Black Pond Wildlife Management Area, Chris Lajewski, Ellisburg., Great Lakes Seaway Trail, National Get Outdoors Day, new york, ny, outdoors, sackets harbor, Seaway Trail Foundation, The Nature Conservancy on June 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Governor David A. Paterson and the New York State Legislature have recognized the Seaway Trail Foundation as the only host of activities for the first National Get Outdoors Day. By joint action the New York State Legislature has declared Saturday, June 14, 2008 as National Get Outdoors Day in the State of New York. Activities [...]
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For nearly 50 years, the levels and flows of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River have been regulated by dams in the river. This regulation has eliminated the natural 15-30 year cycles of low and high levels that have shaped the beaches, dunes and wetlands of the lake’s coastline. The current water regulating [...]
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New York State becomes the first state to offer a non-ocean Underwater Blueway Trail for scuba diving. It involves Lake George, Freeport (Atlantic Ocean coastal waters), Plattsburgh (Lake Champlain); Dunkirk (Lake Erie), Oswego (Lake Ontario) and Geneva (Seneca Lake).
Click here to read all about it.
Also, for more information, read this blog.
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