You’ll pass nearly a dozen old lock sites along the canal, as well as seven former millsites, some deteriorated to crumbling brick walls or a set of rusty gears. After Cherry Street, you’ll soon be on the unpaved portion of the trail. Crossing under Main Street at 0.7 mile, one of the area’s first mills-Birkett Mills-still operates across the stream. The trail begins at a sports complex at Keuka Lake’s northern tip and joins the Keuka Outlet in 0.4 mile. Penn Yan is named for its early transplants from Pennsylvania (PENN) and New England (YAN-kees). Snowmobiling is allowed east of Penn Yan. The Friends of the Outlet have installed numerous interpretive signs along the route. The first 1.3 miles in Penn Yan is paved, and the remainder of the Keuka Outlet Trail is gravel, ballast, and dirt. Both towns are tourist destinations with plenty of services. Later becoming part of the Fall Brook Railway Company, it was acquired by New York Central, which stopped using the route after extensive damage from Tropical Storm Agnes in 1972.įrom Penn Yan, the trail descends at an easy grade to Dresden. The Penn Yan and New York Railway Company opened a branch in 1884 that used the towpath as its corridor. The canal never made money and was abandoned in 1873. New York’s canal-building boom led to construction in 1833 of the Crooked Lake Canal, which required 27 locks along its course. By 1820 more than 20 mills operated along the stream. Settlers moved into the area in the late 1780s, and by 1790 the first mill began operation on Crooked Lake Outlet, as it was then called, based on the “crooked” shape of Keuka Lake. Today, the millsite ruins along the watercourse add another dimension to the natural beauty of cascading waterfalls and rocky ravines. The rail-trail follows a railroad corridor that traced a former canal dug along the natural drainage of Keuka (KYOO-ka) Lake Outlet from Seneca Lake to Keuka Lake. The Keuka Outlet Trail offers a sinuous route of nearly 7 miles between Penn Yan and Dresden in New York’s Finger Lakes region.
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