Gull Lake is a 3.5 mile hike from the Bear Creek Parking Area at the Wild Forest Boundary. Alternatively, with a 4x4 truck or ATV and a dry season, you can drive almost to the shoreline of the Gull Lake on a series of designated truck trails.
http://www.cnyhiking.com/GullLake.htm
http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/75310.html
The Second Pond Trail is a 2.5 mile hike back from Chatiemac Lake Road in Bakers Mills. While the trail can be muddy, especially in the spring, this remote lake is good for solitude and brookies.
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Shallow Lake is a two mile relatively flat hike back along the Sucker Brook Bay Trail and Shallow Lake Trail is a large, remote lake in the Pigeon Lake Wilderness.
https://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/102484.html
https://andyarthur.org/explore/pigeon-lake-wilderness
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/
The white-dashed line shows the route of the Wilson Ridge Trail, which is an old logging road that is maintained nowadays as a mountain bike trail.
The first wilderness part of the Northville Placid Trail is remarkably steep for this part of Adirondacks, climbing 700 feet over a ridge on the first mile, then dropping down 100 feet to Mud Lake over a half mile, then over the next four miles you lose about 550 feet elevation until you reach West Stoney Creek and the lean-to.
https://andyarthur.org/shaker-mountain
https://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/100874.html