Letchworth State Park August 2015

We first visited Letchworth State Park (New York) in the spring of 2014 (posted about it here). It was a cook, wet day then. It was time for a return trip. This time we got a hotel in Mt. Morris which is near the northern entrance to the park. We drove all the way through the park to the upper falls and worked our way back.

The upper falls has a high railroad trestle overhead. The force of the water causes mist to rise from the base of the falls and the cliff walls to support tiny green plants.

The middle falls also creates lots of mist - enough to dampen the walkways to the side of the falls. The Inn is located near the middle falls.

The lower falls is narrower and there is a path to a footbridge over the river below it. There are 127 steps (or more the way we made our way down) to get to the bridge.

I’ve picked more pictures of our morning at Letchworth State Park for the slideshow below. I’ve kept them in chronological order.

• The mists over the river valley when we first drove into the park (1)
• The flowers, one red leaf on the dogwood, and hickory nuts at the visitor center (2-4)
• More views around the upper falls (included a spider with its shadow that was scurrying across a step) (5-8)
• Some birds from the walk I made between the upper and middle falls: blue jay and flicker in a picnic area, crows on the rocks at the top of the middle falls (9-10)
• Vegetation along the paths around the middle falls; my favorite is the macro of the underside of the morning glory (11-14)
• Plants and views from the hike down to the lower falls (15-19)