Watkins Glen-Corning
KOA Camping Resort

Area Attractions

Watkins Glen Gorge

Finger Lakes Wineries & Vineyards

Sailing on Seneca Lake

Waterfalls & Parks

• Watkins Glen Gorge.  The #1 attraction in the Southern Finger Lakes, the world-famous gorge features 19 waterfalls along a 1 1/2 mile well-maintained trail with 832 steps from the bottom to the top.  In the heart of Watkins Glen.
• Taughannock Falls.  The highest single-cascading waterfall east of the Rocky Mountains located near Trumansburg. 
• Buttermilk Falls.  A multi-cascading waterfall just south of Ithaca.
• Robert Treman State Park.  Waterfalls that form natural "swimming hole" help beat the summer heat.  A few miles south of Ithaca.
• Chequaga Falls.  Waterfalls at the end of main street in Montour Falls.
• Eagle Cliff Falls.  A waterfall located in the Havana Glen municipal part just south of Montour Falls.

Wineries & Vineyards

• The beautiful, deep Finger Lakes create an ideal environment for growing grapes.  There are more than 30 vineyards and wineries within an hour of the campground.  These wineries are better associated with the lake they are near rather than the town.  Some of the more prominent wineries include:
   
  • Lakewood Vineyards (Seneca Lake)
  • Glenora Wine Cellars (Seneca Lake)
  • Wagner Vineyards (Seneca Lake)
  • Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards (Seneca Lake)
  • Logan Ridge Winery (Seneca Lake)
  • Swedish Hill Vineyard (Cayuga Lake)
  • Bully Hill Vineyards (Keuka Lake)
  • Dr. Franks Wine Cellars (Keuka Lake)

Links to several individual wineries are provided on our Links page.

Museums

• Corning Museum of Glass and the Steuben Factory.  Home to the world's most comprehensive and celebrated collection of glass, as well as the Hot Glass Show, a live, narrated demonstration of hot glassblowing offered all day.
   
• Wings of Eagles Discovery Center.  The museum collects, maintains, exhibits and flies vintage and historical military aircraft, even offering rides to the public ($).
   
• Rockwell Museum of Western Art.  This museum, known as "The best of the West in the East!", features American Western and Native American art.
   
• National Soaring Museum.  A museum of "engineless" flight, you can also take a ride in a glider ($).
   
• Glenn Curtiss Museum.  A museum celebrating the accomplishments of Glenn Curtiss, "father of naval aviation" and prolific inventor.

Other Attractions

• Watkins Glen International.  America's original road course, WGI today hosts a NASCAR Sprint Cup race in August and an IndyCar race in July.  The "Thunder Road Tour" is a session where you can drive your own vehicle on the racetrack (RVs not allowed).
   
• Captain Bill's Seneca Lakes Cruises.  Both sightseeing and dinner cruises sail from Watkins Glen from May through October.
   
• Fishing on Seneca Lake.  Boat rentals & charters as well as boat launches for your own boat are available.
   
• Hiking.  The Finger Lakes Trail & Finger Lakes National Forest offer the best.

Captain Bill's Seneca Lake Cruises

Rockwell Museum

Watkins Glen International Racetrack

Some area photographs by Doug Brazie