Destinations · New York
Watkins Glen
NY · 42.3811, -76.8711
From Watkins Glen, New York, Byway's registries place 2 scenic byways, 1 public land unit and 3 campgrounds within 30 miles.
Get in
From Ithaca, Watkins Glen is roughly half an hour west on NY 79.
Day-trip loops
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Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway · 17 mi
- Scenic Route 90 · 23 mi
Public land
Campgrounds
- Blueberry Patch Campground · 8 mi
- Potomac Group Campground · 9 mi
- Backbone Horse Campground · 10 mi
Lookouts
- Taughannock Falls Overlook · 17 mi
- Fuertes Swan Pond Overlook · 19 mi
Named places
- Seneca Lake Pier House · 0 mi
- Central Cascade · 1 mi
- Rainbow Falls · 1 mi
- Rainbow Falls · 1 mi
- Watkins Hill · 2 mi
- Aunt Sarah's Falls · 2 mi
- Hectors Falls · 3 mi
- Schuyler County Historical Society · 3 mi
A day out of Watkins Glen, planned on real roads
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Trumansburg · 15 mi
- Ithaca · 19 mi
- Southern Tier · 19 mi
- Eastern Finger Lakes · 21 mi
- Finger Lakes · 30 mi