Sodus Bay
Sodus Bay is a natural embayment on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in Wayne County, New York, United States. The bay is separated from Lake Ontario by a barrier beach approximately 7,500 feet in length and extends roughly 4.4 miles inland, with a maximum width of about 2.4 miles.Photo: DanielPenfield, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Lake
- Description: bay on the south shore of Lake Ontario, Wayne County, New York
- Also known as: “Baye de Goyogoins”, “Big Sodus Bay”, “Cha-ra-ton”, “Ga-na-at-i-o”, “Great Sodus Bay”, and “Se-o-dose”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sodus Point Light.
Sodus Point Light
Lighthouse
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sodus Point Light is a historic lighthouse located in the village of Sodus Point in Wayne County, New York, marking the eastern entrance to Sodus Bay on Lake Ontario. Sodus Point Light is situated 2 miles northwest of Sodus Bay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sodus Point and Alton.
Sodus Point
Photo: Andre Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sodus Point is a village of 860 people in the Finger Lakes Apple Country region of New York. It is a lakeside community surrounded on three sides by water, and part of the Rochester metropolitan area. The village is on Sodus Bay, an arm of Lake Ontario.
Alton
Hamlet
Alton is a hamlet in the Town of Sodus in Wayne County, New York, United States. Located at an inland crossroads approximately 6 miles southeast of the Village of Sodus, the community developed in the early nineteenth century as agricultural settlement expanded into the interior of western New York following the Revolutionary War. Alton is situated 3 miles south of Sodus Bay.
Wallington
Village
Wallington is a hamlet in the Town of Sodus, Wayne County, New York, United States. It is located along Ridge Road approximately 3 miles southeast of the Village of Sodus and 6 miles south-southwest of Sodus Point. Wallington is situated 3½ miles southwest of Sodus Bay.
Sodus Bay
- Categories: bay and body of water
- Location: Wayne, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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