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Credit: AFBorchert Letchworth State Park is a New York state park located 35 miles (56 km) south of Rochester, New York. The park is roughly 17 miles (24 km) long, covering 14,350 acres (22.42 square miles or 58.07 km²) of land along the Genesee River. Within the park there are three large waterfalls on the river and perhaps as many as 50 waterfalls found on tributaries that flow into it; the gorge formed by the river, with rock walls rising up to 550 ft in places and which narrow to 400 ft across above the middle of the three falls, prompted the area's reputation as the "Grand Canyon of the East". Archives • Read more...