Long considered the "jewel" of New York
State's Livingston County, Conesus Lake
is located approximately 25 miles
south of Rochester and parallels
Interstate 390 as it runs from Lake
Ontario south toward the
Pennsylvania border.

Conesus Lake is the most westward of
New York's Finger Lakes chain. The
shoreline of Conesus Lake includes portions of the towns of Conesus, Geneseo, Groveland, and Livonia. Despite its modest size, Conesus is one of the most heavily populated Finger Lakes, largely due to the fact that the entire lake is served by public sewers and water, electricity, natural gas, and cable television access, and is within a short drive of New York's third-largest city (Rochester). Although seasonal cottages still make up a noteworthy percentage of the lake's dwellings, approximately 65% of the lake's residents now live here throughout the year.

Conesus Lake also serves as the public water supply for the villages of Avon and Geneseo, providing drinking water to approximately 15,000 people (22% of the total population of Livingston County). For residents and visitors alike, Conesus Lake is renowned as a year-round sporting and water-based recreation destination. Fishing, power boating, sailing, canoeing/kayaking, swimming, and cycling (around the lake) are enjoyed in the warmer months; waterfowl hunting in the autumn; and ice fishing, ice skating, and snowmobiling when the lake is frozen. It is only in the rarest of winters when the lake fails to freeze from one end to the other.

Exerpt from www.conesuslake.org/about_lake.htm