Chittenango Falls State Park Quick Hike

This waterfall is one of my favorites! Sometimes you can walk down to the bottom (there was one time I was there and the trail was closed off.) Great picnic place, spread out somewhere green and enjoy your meal. I usually bring a book and find a place near the falls, where I can listen to the water, take a ton of photos and play around with video. Families love it here, I always see many children running around enjoying the views.

Beautiful area, well maintained. Good view of waterfall from up top without walking down. Even better view going down to bottom. Lots of steps going down, good workout coming back up.

We went when it had been raining pretty steady all day. We went counter clockwise from the parking lot and the way down was super Slippery, which added a lot of time to our trip. The rain slowed when we got down to the bridge so we stayed a bit. What a beautiful waterfall! Very quick hike, the incline and decline is very fast but over quick. Even with the rain, we saw lots of people of all ages and sizes going down and up. Definitely worth the stop

Great place to visit. Rode bikes there towards the end of the summer with The Envy Killz Motorcycle Club and had nothing short of a great time. The ride was awesome, and the falls were even more pleasant to see. Well worth the visit. Will definitely be back again!

I went to this park today and I have to say, it was way more than I ever could have hoped! After paying the (very reasonable) $5 per car entry fee and finding a place to park, which was easy seeing as it was 10 am on a Tuesday, I started down the Gorge Trail. (Side note: the bathrooms here are very clean and look newly constructed.) A word of warning: the trails are quite slippery, especially after rain, so I would strongly suggest wearing hiking boots or some type of grippy footwear. There are 5 main viewing points: 2 on either side of the top of the waterfall, 2 on either side about halfway down the waterfall and a footbridge at the base of the waterfall. All of them offer gorgeous views of the waterfall, but in my opinion the view from the footbridge outpaces all the others. The hike itself isn’t very difficult but it might offer some challenges for beginners due to how steep it is. I slipped a couple times on the way down but thankfully didn’t hurt myself. It might be difficult to tell from some of the pictures but the falls themselves are huge! I mean I know it says that they’re 167 feet tall but you don’t really realize how tall that actually is until you are staring it in the eye! The sheer amount of vegetation that is to be growing out of the rocks was also shocking to me! Like everywhere you look, there is some kind of plant that seems to be completely at home in a place you never would have thought possible! At first glance, I honestly thought I was in the Amazon rainforest, not central New York! In conclusion, I would very strongly recommend to anyone!