Robert H. Treman State Park Lucifer Falls
— — the gorge that keeps a cold breath even in August.
Not only on a wall.
“A 115-foot drop at the head of a long shale gorge, reached by a stone staircase the Civilian Conservation Corps cut into the rock in the 1930s. The water is loud at the rim and a held hush at the lower pools. The trail keeps its own weather, ten degrees cooler than the road. — from the studio
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Robert H. Treman State Park sits in Enfield Glen, about five miles southwest of Ithaca in the Finger Lakes region. Enfield Creek cuts through Devonian shale for more than two miles, dropping over twelve named waterfalls. Lucifer Falls is the headline drop, roughly 115 feet, near the head of the upper gorge. The land was donated by Robert H. Treman in 1920 and became a state park in 1929. New York State Parks manages it today, with a swimming area at the lower falls fed directly by the creek.
Enfield Creek is a small stream doing slow geology in fast motion. The shale and sandstone of the gorge wall is roughly 380 million years old, soft enough that the water has cut a deep, narrow channel with a stepped floor. After heavy rain the falls go thick brown and loud; in late summer the flow thins and the rock pools below Lucifer Falls turn clear enough to see the bed. The CCC stonework on the Gorge Trail keeps the path tight to the water for almost the whole climb.
The park is open year-round; the Gorge Trail closes from late autumn through mid-May when ice makes the stone steps unsafe. The Rim Trail stays open through winter. A vehicle entrance fee applies in summer, typically eight dollars per car. The swimming area at the lower falls is staffed Memorial Day through Labor Day. The upper entrance, off Route 327, puts you closest to Lucifer Falls; the lower entrance, off Route 13, is the swimming and camping side.