Letchworth State Park, the glorious "Grand Canyon of the East", is a 17-mile, 14,427-acre park in Western New York. It is filled with stunning waterfalls, steep gorges and endless places to explore.

Nicknamed the “Grand Canyon of the East”, Letchworth is full of towering cliffs, roaring waterfalls and lush forests. The sprawling park in Western New York is bisected by the Genesee River ...

The Grand Canyon of the East really can't compete with the Grand Canyon of the West. But as I was ascending a steep portion of the 7-mile Gorge Trail at Letchworth State Park in western New York, ...

Western New York's Letchworth State Park isn't the only gorge that calls itself grand. At least a dozen other chasms in the eastern United States also claim to be the Grand Canyon of the East.