Outdoors writer Gillian Scott and her daughter at Lower Falls in Letchworth State Park in western New York.

Middle Falls at Letchworth State Park, with Upper Falls in the background.

As a college student at the State University of New York at Geneseo (“In the Dark Ages,” according to my teenager), I lived just a few miles from Letchworth State Park. Unfortunately, because I didn’t have a car while in college, I only got to visit its impressive gorges and waterfalls once.

Being without a car in a rural setting meant I spent almost all of my time on campus, with excursions limited to walking into town. So as an adult, Letchworth, sometimes called the “Grand Canyon of the East,” was high on the list of places to go during a return trip to Geneseo.

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1 Letchworth State Park, Castile, NY

https://parks.ny.gov/parks/79

To learn more about Letchworth’s many waterfalls, see Letchworth Waterfall List - All the Waterfalls in the Park

Decades after my graduation, my recollections of Letchworth were vague. Most of the students on my dorm floor........

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