Lower Falls of the Genesee River (Rochester, New York, USA)

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Lower Falls of the Genesee River (Rochester)

The Lower Falls of the Genesee River in Rochester has the potential to be a very scenic waterfall, but its urban setting rather takes away from all it can be. Even with that said, it's hard to stop industrial development and to the city's credit, they've surrounded the falls with a park-like atmosphere so at least there's somewhat of an escape from urban chaos even though the park is surrounded by factories, tall buildings, and busy streets.

Once we were finally able to find valid parking, we walked to a couple of spots where we could see the falls from different vantage points. The first way we did it was taking a signed walkway that goes along the river a little below the bridge over the Genesee River. This went past a picnic area and then to a pretty cool lookout showing the falls juxtaposed with a factory and high bridge over the gorge.

Closer look at the falls with a guy at the base Further upstream is the Middle Falls of the Genesee River in Rochester, except that one is completely man-modified for hydroelectric use. When we were there, it wasn't flowing at all, and all that was left was basically the concrete flood channel. This hardly counts as a waterfall in my book so we didn't bother posting it up on this website.

Back at the bridge at the start of this trail, we then decided to walk onto the bridge itself and tried photographing the falls through the chain-linked fence. We saw some guy make it down there, but we weren't sure how, and we didn't bother trying it out.

Directions: We managed to get here by taking the Rochester Inner Loop Hwy (exiting off I-490) to St Paul St. We turned left onto the street and followed the Genesee River towards Driving Park Blvd (or is it Avenue St?) turning left and going over the bridge. I think there was a car park somewhere near the corner of Lake Ave and Driving Park Blvd on the west side of the bridge.

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Looking down at the Lower Falls through the chain-linked fence from the bridge

Pretty flowers blooming before the Lower Falls

Pillars en route to the falls

Pillars in the picnic area en route to the falls

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June 15, 2007

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This is one of my favorite waterfalls mostly because I can visit often. Sometimes I stop by on my lunch break. When the river is running high, there ...

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The Iroquois name for the Rochester area is Cas-con-sha-gon, meaning river with falls upon it." The Genesee River has three waterfalls in Rochester as ...

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