Finger Lakes National Forest Parks and Outdoors Travel Guide

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By Karen Berger
  • The Backbone Campground is a tent-only site, primarily intended as a picnic or overnight site for equestrians. Facilities include toilets, cooking grills, and picnic tables as well as a corral, which is located next to the campground.
  • The Blueberry Patch (named for its patch of wild blueberries) is suitable for small campers and tents. Facilities include picnic tables, vault toilets, and a hand-pump well for water. This campground offers convenient access to many forest trails.
  • The Potomac Group Campground is intended for groups of between 10 and 40. It is a short 200- yard hike from the parking area. Facilities include a hand-pump well, a pavilion with four long picnic tables, and two vault toilets.
  • Free dispersed backcountry camping is allowed throughout the forest. You must camp at least 50 feet from the edges of trails, streams, and ponds.

Finger Lakes National Forest

According to Iroquois legend, the Finger Lakes of central New York were made by the impression of the hand of the Great Spirit Manitou. Geologists insist that receding glaciers cut the lakes from calcium-rich seabeds. Either way, the forest preserves a unique shrubland ecosystem that nearly vanished because settlers farmed the land until the soil was depleted. As the only national forest in the state of New York and the smallest in the country, the protected habitat is all the more precious. Nestled on a ridge between Seneca and Cayuga Lakes, the 16,032-acre forest is easy to explore thanks to a web of interconnected trails that traverse gorges, ravines, woodlands, and pastures. Read More

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Hotels

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Hilton Garden Inn Ithaca

130 E. Seneca Street
Ithaca, NY 14850 Map

Distance: 15.7 mi.
(from destination center)

Hotel Class: 3 class stars

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from: $185

Statler Hotel at Cornell University

130 Statler Drive
Ithaca, NY 14853 Map

Distance: 16.3 mi.
(from destination center)

Hotel Class: 3 class stars

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Inn at Glenora Wine Cellars

5435 RT 14
Dundee, NY 14837 Map

Distance: 6.9 mi.
(from destination center)

Hotel Class: 3 class stars
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Attractions

Interloken Trail

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Blueberry Patch Campground area
Ithaca, New York

Distance: 0.4 mi. (from destination center)

Description: Twelve-mile Interloken Trail passes through ponds and forests, curves over steep and level land, and at its southern end, encompasses horse-friendly terrain.... Read More
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Blueberry Patch Campground

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Finger Lakes National Forest
Hector, New York

Distance: 1.9 mi. (from destination center)

Description: Picking fresh berries at Blueberry Patch Campground or admiring the hardwoods ablaze with red and... Read More
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Ballard/Foster/Potomoc ponds

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State Rte. 14
Hector, New York

Distance: 4.4 mi. (from destination center)

Description: Fish at these three ponds in Finger Lakes National Forest.... Read More
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Airports

Major Airports near Finger Lakes National Forest

Distance (mi.)
Syracuse Hancock International Airport 54.1 map
Buffalo Niagara International Airport 103.0 map
Albany International Airport 153.0 map

Other Smaller Airports near Finger Lakes National Forest

Distance (mi.)
Ithaca Tompkins County Airport 15.9 map
Elmira Corning/Regional Airport 24.4 map
Binghamton/Endicott/Johnson City Airport 46.4 map

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