Deans Cove Marine State Park Dual Boat Launch Cayuga Lake Royalty-Free Stock Photo

Dean`s Cove Boat Launch is a boat launch site located on the Northwest side of Cayuga Lake near Seneca Falls in the town of Romulus NYS FingerLakes region. Dean`s Cove is located on the site of Swah-Ya-Wa-Nah, an Indian village destroyed on 22 September 1779 by General John Sullivan`s army as part of a successful attempt to remove the various Indian tribes from the Finger Lakes region because of their alliance with the British during the American Revolutionary War.The park is designed specifically to provide boaters with access to Cayuga Lake. The cove is constructed of two semi-circles of large granite boulders that provides calm water in which to launch boats, kayaks, and canoes. The boat launch is the principal purpose of the park, but the rest of the land around the boat launch is also open to the public. Large, tall trees, including tulip poplar, cherry, ash, aspen, sycamore, and hickory. Birding hotspot.