⭐️USA Today’s #1 state park in America and #1 attraction in New York State. 💦Plan your adventure with us: https://on.ny.gov/3M8BlW6 | Letchworth State Park
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⭐️USA Today’s #1 state park in America and #1 attraction in New York State. 💦Plan your adventure with us: https://on.ny.gov/3M8BlW6 | Letchworth State Park
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🥞Tickets to 2025’s final pancake breakfasts available now: friendsofletchworth.org ☕️Includes pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage, and choice of coffee, tea, hot chocolate, orange juice, or milk. 🎟️Activities and demos are free, breakfast tickets $12, free for kids age 4 and under. Proceeds go to park preservation projects. 🍁Maple Weekends pancake breakfasts, sugarbush tours, and maple making demos are March 22-23 and March 29-30, 10am to 2pm. 📍All of these festivities are at the Humphrey Natu
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🥞Tickets to 2025’s final pancake breakfasts available now: friendsofletchworth.org ☕️Includes pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage, and choice of coffee, tea, hot chocolate, orange juice, or milk. 🎟️Activities and demos are free, breakfast tickets $12, free for kids age 4 and under. Proceeds go to park preservation projects. 🍁Maple Weekends pancake breakfasts, sugarbush tours, and maple making demos are March 22-23 and March 29-30, 10am to 2pm. 📍All of these festivities are at the Humphrey Natu
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10 things to do at Letchworth State Park
10 things to do at Letchworth State Park
Jun 17, 2015
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💦 Upper Falls is the southernmost large waterfall in Letchworth State Park. 🚂 The arched bridge above it is an active railroad bridge for the Norfolk Southern rail company. While you can’t walk on it, the bridge sure does frame the falls well. 🔥 This bridge was finished in 2017 as a replacement for “Old Shaky,” the iron trestle bridge built in 1875. Old Shaky was itself a replacement bridge, built as an emergency replacement for the wooden railroad bridge built there in 1952. In 1875, the woo
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💦 Upper Falls is the southernmost large waterfall in Letchworth State Park. 🚂 The arched bridge above it is an active railroad bridge for the Norfolk Southern rail company. While you can’t walk on it, the bridge sure does frame the falls well. 🔥 This bridge was finished in 2017 as a replacement for “Old Shaky,” the iron trestle bridge built in 1875. Old Shaky was itself a replacement bridge, built as an emergency replacement for the wooden railroad bridge built there in 1952. In 1875, the woo
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Aerial Pull Back at Upper Falls with Bridge in Letchworth State Park. Wide shot aerial drone shot pull back of the upper falls and bridge at Letchworth State Park
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Aerial Pull Back at Upper Falls with Bridge in Letchworth State Park. Wide shot aerial drone shot pull back of the upper falls and bridge at Letchworth State Park
May 13, 2023
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❄️Letchworth State Park is one of America’s must-sees. 🎿Come hike, tube, cross country ski, snowshoe, snowmobile (check hotlines below), and learn from our educators and winter lectures how the Genesee Valley connects us all. ✏️Tips for exploring this beautiful place in the winter: 🚻Comfort stations, or restrooms, are available year-round at Middle Falls, Inspiration Point, Highbanks picnic shelter area, Mount Morris Dam Overlook, Trailside Lodge, and during business hours at the Visitor Cente
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❄️Letchworth State Park is one of America’s must-sees. 🎿Come hike, tube, cross country ski, snowshoe, snowmobile (check hotlines below), and learn from our educators and winter lectures how the Genesee Valley connects us all. ✏️Tips for exploring this beautiful place in the winter: 🚻Comfort stations, or restrooms, are available year-round at Middle Falls, Inspiration Point, Highbanks picnic shelter area, Mount Morris Dam Overlook, Trailside Lodge, and during business hours at the Visitor Cente
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📍Genesee Arch bridge, the active railroad bridge over Upper Falls, one of the largest waterfalls in Letchworth State Park. 🚂This is the third railroad bridge to stand here. The first was a wooden bridge built in 1852. It was the tallest, longest railroad bridge in the world at the time. 🔥A mysterious fire destroyed the wooden bridge in 1875, but in just two months, a new iron bridge was finished and operational, the Portage Viaduct. 💦In December 2017, after standing for 142 years over the Ge
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📍Genesee Arch bridge, the active railroad bridge over Upper Falls, one of the largest waterfalls in Letchworth State Park. 🚂This is the third railroad bridge to stand here. The first was a wooden bridge built in 1852. It was the tallest, longest railroad bridge in the world at the time. 🔥A mysterious fire destroyed the wooden bridge in 1875, but in just two months, a new iron bridge was finished and operational, the Portage Viaduct. 💦In December 2017, after standing for 142 years over the Ge
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❄️Here’s to the best winter we’ve had in years! 🎿Great xc skiing, snowmobiling, tubing, and one of the first years we could actually snowshoe! 🌋And of course, the mighty “ice volcano,” really a garden fountain put in by William Pryor Letchworth in 1860. 🌨️When he donated the land he had so carefully landscaped and re-wilded for decades, Mr. Letchworth couldn’t have known how many millions of people this awesome natural landscape would touch. Just a little snow wraps these magical canyons and
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❄️Ice reveals one of Letchworth State Park’s tallest waterfalls, Inspiration Falls! 💦 Inspiration Falls’ 150-foot freefall makes it a treasure of the Portageville Canyon. 🔭 Because Inspiration Falls is an “ephemeral waterfall” and mostly flows at a trickle, if at all, the ice makes makes it much easier to see. | Letchworth State Park
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🚍 Experience the South end of Letchworth State Park by a free shuttle drop off and pick up when you're in the park! 📅 First three weekends of October, Saturdays & Sundays from 11am to 5pm. 🗺️ Ask the staff on entry for a map of the shuttle stops. The five main stops are: Lower Falls, Trailside Lodge/Humphrey Nature Center, Inspiration Point, Glen Iris Inn and Middle/Upper Falls. 📍 Remember what stop you parked at and plan accordingly to make it back to your vehicle by 5pm. 💼 Pack your patie
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Letchworth State Park is the home of year round adventure🥾🏔️🌄 @letchworthstatepark Letchworth State Park, renowned as the “Grand Canyon of the East,” is one of the most scenic spots in WNY with tons of outdoor spaces to explore!🙌🏼🍁 Trails are available for horseback riding, biking, snowmobiling, and cross-country skiing. Letchworth offers nature, history and performing arts programs, guided walks, tours, a summer lecture series, whitewater rafting, kayaking, a pool for swimming and hot air
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🪵 The wooden railroad bridge over the Genesee River was the biggest wooden railroad bridge in the world at the time. Built in 1852, this bridge was a critical bottleneck for trains traveling east-west to the south of Lake Ontario. The Genesee River is long and meanders widely…it is the only river that completely crosses the borders of New York State and would have taken a significant detour to get around otherwise. 🔥 And the day did come when trains would have to take the long way for awhile…A
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Letchworth State Park's iconic trestle bridge over Genesee River is being torn down
Jan 25, 2018
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🎇Happy 4th!🎆 📍Check the official website, parks.ny.gov/parks/letchworth and the NYS Parks Explorer app for FAQs, maps, and seasonal updates. ⛺️ It’s worth noting that to reserve any campsites or cabins, you have to use reserveamerica.com. ✅Follow us on IG and FB, @letchworthstatepark on both, for updates, behind the scenes content, job postings, and educational videos. 📞Questions? Call the Visitor Center, (585)493-3600. See you soon! | Letchworth State Park
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🥾To get in on all the cool adventures including moss walks at Letchworth State Park and other state parks by the Genesee River, email genesee.education@parks.ny.gov. ▶️ Check out over 100 more videos like by visiting our YouTube channel, link found in our Linktree: linktr.ee/LetchworthStatePark | Letchworth State Park
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Six Years Ago Today: One of the coolest trains to ever pass through Letchworth State Park made the passenger excursion on August 1, 2015. The Nickel Plate 765 steam engine led nostalgic passenger cars, many of them Pullman cars, on a trip from Buffalo to Corning and back each day that weekend. It was the first steam engine to cross the Genesee River there in years on the old 1875 trestle--and the last one. Less than three years later the trestle was gone, the new Genesee Arch Bridge taking its p
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Throwback Thursday: It was five years ago this week that I saw one of the most fascinating sights in my documentation of the new bridge build at Letchworth State Park and subsequent removal of the 1875 trestle there. The new railroad arch had been open a month and the piece by piece dismantling of the iconic trestle was underway. Tommy Belford of Nunda, NY did a masterful job on the excavator removing the old (and heavy) timbers, little by little. He was on this machine, some 240 feet above the
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🌷New to the park? Been awhile? We got you. Here’s what you need to know: 👀The park is about the size of Manhattan with over 100 waterfalls and once-in-a-lifetime experiences year-round, especially May 1 to Oct. 31. Check our social media (@letchworthstatepark on Facebook and Instagram, website parks.ny.gov/parks/letchworth), and the NYS Parks Explorer app for updates about all information below. Open in April: ✅ Through-park vehicle access. ✅ Typical one-way traffic pattern through Upper and M
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📍Wolf Creek is now accessible by car for the season! 💎 This gem within a gem of a park is in a steep stretch of road toward the south end that is only accessible by foot, snowmobile, or cross country skis in the winter. 💦 Keep in mind that Wolf Creek flows into the park from farm fields…and it’s manure season! Please stay clean and safe, don’t wade or swim in Wolf Creek at any time of year. 🌱 Parks biologists are restoring sensitive streamside habitat near the vehicle bridge. Look for the ye
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🤿The swimming pool opens for the season today! 🐡Come swim Mondays through Fridays 11am to 5:45pm, Saturdays and Sundays 11am to 6:45pm. 📍Highbanks Recreation Area, south of the Mount Morris Dam and north of the Hogsback overlook. There is no fee to swim at the pool. Keep in mind that $10 vehicle use fees are collected at the park’s Mount Morris, Perry, Castile, and Portageville gates from 9am to 5pm. The park is open from 6am to 11pm. | Letchworth State Park
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🍎About 150 years ago, a one room schoolhouse stood on what is now Trout Pond Road. 🍁Today, we tap maple trees that might have been saplings in that old photo! They were planted and might even have been tapped by the schoolkids of this District 2 schoolhouse, Genesee Falls, NY, generations ago. 🔨Though the real schoolhouse came down in about 1948, this beautiful replica was built in about 1986. 🪣Tell your friends, every Saturday through March is a SAPturday, with tours of the sugarhouse and g
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❄️Snow can make the falls thunder, just like a rainstorm. 🌊The Genesee River drains rain and snow melt from the foothills of Appalachia in northern PA, flowing north and carving three huge canyons and waterfalls in Letchworth State Park, then another canyon and three more falls in the city of Rochester before its big finish in Lake Ontario. 📍When roads close for winter weather, this view is only accessible through the Castile entrance, 6787 Denton Corners Road, Castile, NY. In season: 🛟Tubing
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💃Ok this is wild. The timberdoodle, woodcock, “Labrador Twister” is rarely seen, rarely photographed, rarely caught doing this iconic funky walk. 📍And in comes a park visitor with this incredible footage from the Gardeau area. A once in a lifetime moment! None of the nature center staff have seen this in person. Awesome! 💫The walk is a meme, it’s hilarious, but for real why do they walk like that? 🪱We don’t really know, but some smart folks think it helps them find worms (major part of their
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🍫 Tropical Storm Debby turned the Genesee River to “chocolate milk.” ⚡️Today, the rumble of the falls pounds in your chest and carries for miles, like rolling thunder and wind. 😱In just 24 hours, from Aug. 9 to Aug. 10, the river flow increased by over 2,000%. 🌱🌳At 8am Aug. 9, river flow was 272 cubic feet per second, about enough to fill 10 hot tubs in a second. Peak flow at 8am on Aug. 10 was 5,720 cubic feet per second, enough to full 250 hot tubs in a second. ⚠️As the biggest rush of sto
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🔥 We have all 8 loops in our campground and 4 of our 5 cabin areas open now. 🔗As you make your plans, many FAQs are answered on our website, parks.ny.gov/parks/letchworth. All booking is done through reserveamerica.com. 🏠There are several historic homes and of course the renowned Glen Iris Inn to stay at too. 🤿Free swimming pool not open yet, but on track. Stay tuned! 🥾 Enjoy the Grand Canyon of the East, the halfway point of the Genesee River as it drains rainwater from the triple continen
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🥾Trail 6, the trail to the stone footbridge at Lower Falls, is open for the season! 📍The closest parking to the footbridge is at the very end of Lower Falls Road, which is south of Great Bend and north of the Visitor Center. 💦 This hike gets you up close and personal with one of the three largest waterfalls in Letchworth State Park, Lower Falls. 🪨 This is also one of the most active erosion zones in the park, with a narrow gorge made of thin shale taking the same or more water than the more
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Letchworth State Park: expect gate closures, delays during holiday weekend
Oct 11, 2020
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🌙🌑One day away from the Eclipse! 👀 What to expect, besides lots (LOTS) of people: 📍The best and most available eclipse viewing in the park will be in the Highbanks Recreation Area at the north end of the park, near swimming pool parking. ⛺️🚫No camping or cabins will be available. You must find other local accommodations. 🅿️Parking is allowed in paved parking spaces only. No roadside parking. 🚪Mount Morris, Perry, Castile, and Portageville entrances (not Parade Grounds) are open. 🚙Park Ro
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Have you seen the hidden face in Middle Falls? Look closely at the rock layers sticking out from the middle of the waterfall. Look for a nose, a mouth, and even a well-formed chin peeking out. Middle Falls’ mist has made a rainbow in its basin every clear afternoon for hundreds of years. In the 1800’s, when William Pryor Letchworth was around, he wanted to come up with a grandiose name for his grand estate and home, now the fully operational historic inn and restaurant with a view of the falls.
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☀️For the first time in over 20 years, Trail 7 is complete and open, with views of the Glen Iris Inn, Middle Falls, and Upper Falls from the east side of Portage Canyon.🌊Big waterfall views.🚂Safe, legal, awesome walk under the active Genesee Arch railroad bridge.🌲Peaceful hiking through young hemlock and oak woods, among the hornbeams.⚠️ Trail 7 was partially closed for decades due to the unstable, sliding slope…but no more!🥾 This December, our trail crew finished cutting new trail around th
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