The Finger Lakes has quietly become one of New York's strongest craft beer regions, with more than 100 breweries spanning Belgian-inspired ales, lakeside IPAs, and farm breweries growing their own hops.

At just 30 feet deep, Honeoye Lake is the shallowest of the Finger Lakes — which makes it the warmest, the first to freeze, and one of the best lakes in the region for families with young children.

With a population under 700, Aurora occupies a sliver of Cayuga Lake's eastern shore and packs in a liberal arts college, a luxury inn, and the MacKenzie-Childs factory — all set against one of the most beautiful stretches of lakeshore in the Finger Lakes.

A trail-by-trail guide to the Finger Lakes wine region, covering 20 standout wineries across the Seneca, Cayuga, Keuka, and Canandaigua wine trails — from pioneering Riesling producers to innovative natural winemakers.

At the southern end of Canandaigua Lake, the small town of Naples is defined by three things: a grape pie tradition found nowhere else on Earth, the Finger Lakes' premier ski mountain, and a box canyon with two 60-foot waterfalls.

Canadice Lake is the smallest of the eleven Finger Lakes at 649 acres — and with no motorized boats, no development, and no swimming permitted, it's the closest thing to wilderness the region offers.

Hemlock Lake has served as part of Rochester's drinking water supply since 1876, and that protected status means no motorized boats, no lakeside development, and some of the most undisturbed shoreline in the Finger Lakes.

A working agricultural town at the northern tip of Keuka Lake, Penn Yan is home to the world's largest buckwheat mill, a gateway to Amish and Mennonite farm country, and a seven-mile trail that follows water from one Finger Lake toward another.

Conesus Lake anchors the western edge of the Finger Lakes — 8 miles long, 66 feet deep, and the warmest of the larger lakes, with a strong warm-water fishery and a laid-back, family-oriented character.

The town where Elizabeth Cady Stanton and 300 others gathered in 1848 to demand women's suffrage, Seneca Falls preserves that history in a National Historical Park and carries an unexpected connection to one of America's favorite films.