 Taughannock Falls in Autumn, 2003 Taughannock Falls State Park (IPA: [təˈgænək]) 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"[citation needed]. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 577 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1200 × 1247 pixel, file size: 453 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Taughannock Falls, taken in Fall, 2003. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 577 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1200 × 1247 pixel, file size: 453 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Taughannock Falls, taken in Fall, 2003. ...
State park is a term used in the United States and in Mexico for an area of land preserved on account of its natural beauty, historic interest, recreation, or other reason, and under the administration of the government of a U.S. state or one of the states of Mexico. ...
For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ...
Ulysses is a town located in northwest Tompkins County, New York at 42. ...
Tompkins County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, and comprises the whole of the Ithaca metropolitan area. ...
The City of Ithaca (named for the Greek island of Ithaca) sits on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, in Central New York State. ...
Trumansburg is a village in Tompkins County, New York, United States. ...
The Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans) were, in the 1600s, loosely organized bands of Native American people practicing small-scale agriculture to augment a largely mobile hunter-gatherer society in the region around the Delaware River, the lower Hudson River, and western Long Island Sound. ...
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 in the Northeastern United States.[citation needed] The water then flows through a long gorge with cliffs up to 400 ft high, giving 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. Visitors can reach an excellent view of the waterfall by walking along a 3/4 mile long trail. Hopetoun Falls near Otway National Park, Victoria, Australia A waterfall is usually a geological formation resulting from water, often in the form of a stream, flowing over an erosion-resistant rock formation that forms a sudden break in elevation. ...
For other uses, see Niagara Falls (disambiguation). ...
A gorge is a narrow passage between steep mountains or hills. ...
Bridal Veil Falls in Yosemite National Park flowing from a hanging valley. ...
Watkins Glen State Park is located on the edge of the village of Watkins Glen, New York, south of Seneca Lake in Schuyler County. ...
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. Two hikers in the Mount Hood National Forest Eagle Creek hiking Hiking is a form of walking, undertaken with the specific purpose of exploring and enjoying the scenery. ...
Car camping is camping in a tent, but nearby the car for easier access and for supply storage. ...
See also
This is a list of state parks in the U.S. state of New York. ...
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