What’s So Great about Our Crooked Lake?
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At one time, that outlet was developed into a canal, the Crooked Lake Canal. Opened in 1833, it carried local goods to Seneca Lake and then on to the Erie Canal.
euka’s unique “Y” shape causes the water to flow both north and south. Here’s how The canal was later replaced by a it works: water from the west railroad branch line and is now a branch inlet at Sugar/Guyanoga hiking and cycling trail, the Keuka Creek flows south into the east Outlet Trail. branch. There, it combines with north-flowing water from Keuka is the only Finger Lake that the Cold Brook inlet at the exits into another Finger Lake. southern end. The water finally exits north out of The lake is about 20 miles long and varies in the outlet into Seneca width from one-half mile to 2 miles. It has a Lake, at the village of surface area of 11,730 acres, and a maximum Dresden.
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