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New York s Finger Lakes: The region that helped inspire American democracy CNN 1/22/2021 © CNN A traditional Haudenosaunee longhouse in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. You ll find it almost everywhere you turn on T-shirts, bumper stickers, magnets and all types of tourist trinkets the three words: Ithaca is gorges. © Library of Congress/Corbis/Getty Images American suffragist and writer Matilda Joslyn Gage. After all, who doesn t love a good pun? Ithaca, New York, is gorgeous, peppered with steep gorges (get it?), plunging waterfalls, and a tapestry of tree-covered mountains that turn vibrant shades of yellow, orange and red when the leaves change in the fall. If you can time your visit just right, at the peak of leaf peeping season, it is a wonder to behold.

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