Taughannock Falls State Park Regional Headquarters

Janusz Roginski

There are three beautiful waterfalls not far from one another. Free parking lots by the upper two waterfalls. Washrooms available in all three locations. There is a lake and a garded beach near the lower waterfall.

Christina Hotaling

The trials to the falls were great! The falls themselves were beautiful, among the scenery on the walk, which is fairly short and very easy to navigate! The only place I didnt have a great time was their tiny beach! The lifeguards are (clearly just doing their job), but it also takes the fun out of swimming. They nit-pick everything you do in the water. If you cant have fun, what are kids going to want to go to that beach for?

Stacy Romaine

This is a great park. We spent a long weekend here in the camping area and really enjoyed ourselves. The campsites themselves are generally nice, but I have to say I think that of all of the sites, I think ours and our neighbor's (77 & 78) were the nicest and roomiest of the electric sites. Up "top", at the lower numbers of electric sites were way too crowded together for our liking, but if you were going with family or friends and grabbing a few sites, it would be fine. Which it seemed like quite a few of them were. But overall great staff - very friendly and helpful when we encountered them. As I said, nice camping area with nice bathroom and comfort facilities. The day use area down by the lake with the marina, beach, boat rental area, picnic areas and playground, was very nice, too. Also right across the road from that day use area is the start to several trails. The Gorge Trail is an easy, level, wide, handicap-accessible ~1 mile walk to the base of the falls. The South Rim and North Rim trails are labeled as moderate, and I'd say that's for the "beginning" or the "end" depending on which way you do them if you do the loop of both of them. There are a lot of stairs down by the lake level, but then it's much more of a overall gradual climb (or descent if you're on the down part of the loop) as you get higher. The loop is an almost 3 mile hike and was really nice. It does pass right by the upper Falls Overlook area and parking lot, too. There was a multi-use trail we never got a chance to check out because of rain, but we did see a bit of it down across the road from the campsite area and I wish we had had the chance. Next time!

Michael Slaunwhite

Just up the street is a great overlook of Taughannock Falls. There were many groups spotting in to get group photos with the falls as the background. Have you photographer stand on the steps when taking your picture.