Everything about Taughannock Falls State Park totally explained
Taughannock Falls State Park is located in the
Town of Ulysses in
Tompkins County, New York in the
USA. The park is northwest of
Ithaca, New York near
Trumansburg, New York. The name "Taughannock" comes from the
Delaware Indians, referring either to chief Taughannock or the word
taghkanic, meaning "great fall in the woods".
The main
cataract of the falls is an astounding 215 ft drop, making it 33 ft taller than
Niagara Falls and the largest single drop waterfall east of the Rocky Mountains. The water then flows through a long
gorge with cliffs up to 400 ft high, characteristic of the area's gorges that give rise to the common "Ithaca is Gorges" bumper stickers and t-shirts. The waterfall and gorge is an example of a
hanging valley that developed in a very similar fashion to the one at nearby
Watkins Glen State Park. None of the local gorges were "carved by glaciers." In fact all of the gorges are post-glacial valleys carved by the streams that are still in them. It is the valleys over which the waterfalls hang that were eroded (over-deepened) by the advance of the Pleistocene ice sheets.
Visitors can reach an excellent view of the waterfall by walking along a 3/4 mile long trail. Visit in autumn is particularly interesting because of the picturesque colors of the surrounding trees.
The Park offers
hiking and nature trails,
camping, picnicking, swimming, fishing, and a boat launch, as well as ice-skating, sledding, cross-country skiing in the winter.
Photo Gallery
Image:Taughannock_Falls.jpg|Taughannock Falls in summer 1995
Image:Taughannock_Falls.JPG|Taughannock Falls in autumn 2003
Image:Taughannock_Falls2.jpg|Taughannock Falls in autumn 2005
Image:Taughannock 02.JPG|Taughannock Falls in summer 2007
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