Cascadilla Gorge
The iconic Cascadilla Gorge Trail connects downtown Ithaca with the Cornell Campus through one of the most picturesque gorges in the Finger Lakes Region. https://cornellbotanicgardens.org/location/cascadilla-gorge/
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The iconic Cascadilla Gorge Trail connects downtown Ithaca with the Cornell Campus through one of the most picturesque gorges in the Finger Lakes Region. https://cornellbotanicgardens.org/location/cascadilla-gorge/
There are two large brine storage ponds at the Enterprise Products Propane Storage facility in Harford Mills NY, outside of Ithaca and Cortland. They pump brine out of underground storage caverns and use it to store 680,000 BbLs of Propane.
https://www.enterpriseproducts.com/customers/natural-gas-liquids/#HarfordMillsNY
More about Brine Storage Ponds: https://www.layfieldgroup.com/geosynthetics/project-profiles/brine-storage-pond-storage-of-natural-gas-liquids-.aspx
New York Route 10 is often said to be the last paved state highway in New York when the Glen Harris Highway was paved north of Arietta up through Piseco Lake in the early 1980s.
Due to constitutional constraints relating to the road running through forest preserve, with few exceptions, almost all of modern asphalt road follows the path of the dirt road, although during construction they did bank the curves and widen the road slightly from the horse and buggy road that existed in almost the same form since the 1800s.
I have the 1904 topographic maps of the area too but due to issues with the original map survey, the overlay is more difficult to do accurately compared to the more modern 1954 survey.
The modern alignment is shown in orange while the topographic map below is from 1954.
From Bronx to the Canadian border.
The end of Interstate 684 which becomes NY 22 north of the expressway.
Looking across Reynoldsville towards the southern part of the Finger Lakes National Forest towards Burnt Hill.