Skaneateles, NY Shirts

The water explains everything about Skaneateles. The lake is famously among the cleanest in the country, so clear that a nearby city has drawn its drinking water from it, unfiltered, since the 1890s. On a bright day the shallows go a startling teal, a color that looks borrowed from somewhere tropical and has no business in central New York. The village takes its cue from the lake: a tidy Main Street of shops and porches, a long pier reaching out from the lakeside park where everyone eventually wanders with ice cream, sailboats stitching the blue beyond it. Skaneateles is an Iroquois name usually translated as long lake, and long it is, a slender ribbon of glacial clarity pointed south into the hills. Our Skaneateles design leans into that improbable color: the pier in clean line work, the water banded in teals below it, the lake's narrow outline running through the middle like a signature. When Skaneateles businesses join ShirtMap, you will find them gathered on this page.