McIntyre’s Bluff
McIntyre’s Bluff is one of several large, dramatic, wave-eroded earthen cliffs along the south shore of Lake Ontario. In episode 209 (from 2018) last week, we looked at Sitts Bluff in Fair Haven Beach State Park in northern Cayuga County, NY in the Town of Sterling and near the village of Fair Haven. In this episode 210, we go a short distance east along the same shore and within sight of the state park to Sterling Nature Center, a 1428-acre Cayuga County park. And there we walk southwest below the imposing heights of McIntyre’s Bluff. Along with Chimney Bluffs, a few miles west of Fair Haven Beach State Park, these are three of the most prominent and publicly accessible wave-eroded Ice Age hills called drumlins along the Lake Ontario shore; and they are among more than 10,000 drumlins left south of the lake by the most recent Ice Age glacier that covered New York State more than 10,000 years ago.
Also in this episode, we look at the history of conservation battles to create Sterling Nature Center following threats to build coal and later nuclear power plants and a radioactive waste disposal site on the property.
Walk in the Park is a non-commercial, public access TV series in the Ithaca-Tompkins County area at the south end of Cayuga Lake in New York's Finger Lakes region. It is produced by Owl Gorge Productions in Ithaca.
