Letchworth State Park

[Matt]

Discuss Letchworth State Park and included waterfalls here.

[champy1013]

Great place for camping - often times in the high season you must reserve months in advance. The cabin camping (from reserve america) is really nice. It's also a great place to go mountain biking and of course, hiking....

Really one of my favorite parks. I love going there around mid-May, right before the big crowds and when the leaves start coming out. The place is dripping with Native American history as well -(the White Woman of the Genesee) and interesting facts about the Mount Morris dam down there that prevents Rochester from flooding like it used to.

[Matt]

apparently there are hundreds of cascades, big and small just waiting to be mapped.. Hopefully within a few years and through the combined efforts of this community, we'll have photos, names and locations of each.

[champy1013]

apparently there are hundreds of cascades, big and small just waiting to be mapped.. Hopefully within a few years and through the combined efforts of this community, we'll have photos, names and locations of each.

Past the upper falls, there's a gorgeous one, you have to walk up the gorge to get to it....I'm not sure what the official policy of the state park system is concerning walking the gorge in Letchworth - but we might want to research that before we map and lead anyone to places...I'm not even sure if the place I was, was technically a place I was suppose to be

[cbobcat49]

Don't worry. You were definitely in a place you were allowed to be. There's a lot of intermittent falls spilling into the gorge at Letchworth. The one upstream from Upper Falls you saw was probably Timber Tunnel Cascade. There's a little bit of a trail system on the east side of the park. Hardly anyone knows about it because its undeveloped. You can get interesting views of the 3 main falls from this side. Drive over the bridge over the river in Portageville and the trailhead is immediately on the left. Another notable falls is Deh-ga-ya-soh Falls. The Freeman's book devotes about 20 pages to all the Letchworth falls. Also Scott Ensminger (Falzguy) wrote a book about Letchworth falls which in now out of print, but I bought a pdf copy of it from him last year. Here are photos of Timber Tunnel and Deh-ga-ya-soh.

[cbobcat49]

[cbobcat49]

hmm, I can't seem to post pictures. I've done it before.

[tjconheady]

i corrected it, make sure that you're links have the .jpg in them to be recognized as images