Taughannock Falls Trumansburg
— — a single white drop in a quiet stone room.
Not only on a wall.
“A 215-foot waterfall in a sandstone gorge in the Finger Lakes, taller than Niagara by 33 feet and dropping in one clean ribbon into a circular plunge pool. The trail in from the main road is flat, three-quarters of a mile along the creek, and the gorge walls climb 400 feet on either side as you walk. Taughannock Falls State Park sits just north of Trumansburg, a few miles west of Cayuga Lake's western shore. Best on a still morning, when the spray rises and the gorge holds it. From the studio.
Taughannock Falls Trumansburg, on ceramic.
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Taughannock Falls is a 215-foot single-drop waterfall in a sandstone gorge in Taughannock Falls State Park, in the Town of Ulysses, Tompkins County, about ten miles north of Ithaca and just outside Trumansburg. It is 33 feet taller than Niagara Falls and one of the tallest single-drop falls east of the Rocky Mountains. The creek empties into Cayuga Lake, the longest of New York's Finger Lakes. The park covers about 750 acres and is managed by New York State Parks.
The gorge walls are Devonian sedimentary rock about 380 million years old, layered shale, siltstone, and sandstone deposited at the bottom of a shallow inland sea. The falls drop over a more resistant Sherburne Sandstone caprock onto softer Geneseo Shale below, and that hardness contrast is why the rim has held its shape while the gorge has cut back almost a mile from Cayuga Lake. The plunge pool at the base is roughly thirty feet deep, carved by the same erosion that retreated the falls upstream.
The Gorge Trail runs 0.75 miles flat along Taughannock Creek from the lower parking lot to a viewing platform at the base of the falls, and is open year-round. The North and South Rim trails climb to overlooks above the gorge and total about 2.5 miles. Parking is free in the off season and around ten dollars per vehicle in summer. The water flow is heaviest in spring; the falls freeze into a column some winters, and the ice tower is a regional draw in cold years.