Wyoming Co.,
New York
Hiking Trails:
Highbanks Trail: Yellow blaze
Total Time: 1:00 hour
Estimated Distance: 2.3 Miles
Pros: Nice gorge scenery
Cons: Trail goes on grass and has many paved areas
Level of Difficulty: Very Easy
Continuing our camping trip in Letchworth State Park and the Genesee River Gorge, I went to explore the northern area of the park. I parked at the pullout for the Hogsback, a formation of rock jutting into the river where it forms a bend around it, resembles the back of a hog. At the parking area there is a nice view. I took the Highbanks Trail north, where it goes along western rim of the gorge.
The trail starts mostly as a standard hiking trail, but then goes into some grassy areas approaching the pool area, and then goes on a paved path for much of the way behind the pool. There are some excellent views at this part where the rock formation juts into the gorge as a high peninsula. I continued further north past the pool area towards the dam, but ran out of time at this point to get all the way to the dam lookout, so only got some poor views of it through the trees. I then turned around, cut across the grassy picnic areas by the pool for a straighter route, and then back to the trail and back to my car.
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| Map of the Route |
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| Plaque Explaining the Hogsback Overlook |
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| Hogsback from the Hogsback Overlook |
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| View of the Marshy Area from the Highbanks Recreation Area |
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| Genesee River in the Gorge from the Highbanks Area |
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| Peninsula Extending from the Hogsback |
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| Genesee River and Marsh |
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| Hogsback from the Highbanks Area |
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| View from Highbanks |
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| View of Dam from Trees |
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