Well Traveled Hiking Trail Through The FingerLakes Stock Image

This natural spring fed pond is the headwaters for Buttermilk Falls in Ithaca NYS. Open for free swimming while lifeguards are on duty, the park also contains grills and picnic tables for barbecues, as well as amble space for fishing and kayaking. A large underground rift called the St. Lawrence Seaway Divide runs through the Finger Lakes Region so that bodies of water to the north of the divide drain to the north and bodies of water to the south of the divide drain to the south. The affect of this divide is most evident at Jennings Pond on Bald Hill Road in the Town of Danby Tompkins County where the divide runs under the pond. Fed by a creek from the west, the pond drains both to the north and the south.