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Originally Posted by Sean®
Seems like she means just from the NYS Thruway.
The Mohawk River cuts in about Utica and fron that point East its actually a really pretty drive. But from Utica West including her Syracuse area the Thruway is cut your wrists boring.
And off the Thruway from Syracuse to Rochester is pretty prairie like.
But from Rochester on West you don't have to get far off to get into some pretty rugged country. The area around Lecthworth and Watkins Glens and Ithaca don't seem very flat to me.
Western, Eastern, and Northern, and heck Southern NY are none to flat. Just a small circle in the center of the state.
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Very, true, very true.
Before the Erie canal, upstate NY was along side Pennsylvania as being some of the most recognized rugged land in the north. It was thought to be nigh impossible to cross.
In fact, if it weren't for the great lakes position, and the finger lakes/Mohawk valley providing water ways through the hills and mountains (and a path for the canal), upstate would never have developed the way it did.
That would not have been a factor if the land was all flat.
But holy cow are those Ontario plains flat! That's why most of the major upstate cities are on those plains (and the lake of course). A small region of NY, but it feels like a whole new state in that area. Feels like Michigan to me.
I grew up in the hills south of it, at the lower end of the finger lakes. And I always felt lost up on the plains. Even the people are different! XD
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