Five-Star Trails: Finger Lakes and Central New York: Your Guide to the Area’s Most Beautiful Hikes

This guide will help you discover the sometimes subtle, sometimes dramatic landscape of New York’s Finger Lakes region.

Tim Starmer has always been an outdoor enthusiast and spent most of his childhood seeking out remote and wild areas whenever possible. During a brief hiatus from Brown University during 1997, he drove across the United States for six weeks, camping the entire way. Along the way he explored many of the West’s national and state parks, including Canyonlands, Yellowstone, Arches, Bryce Canyon. At the trip’s conclusion, he headed down to Australia, where he backpacked for a few months exploring the eastern Outback, the Great Barrier Reef, and the caves of Tasmania, as well as traversing the Tasmanian World Heritage Area along the Overland Track. Tim currently works in upstate New York as a timber framer and can still be found exploring the wilds whenever possible.