| Chittenango Falls State Park | |
|---|---|
 Chittenango Falls in May 2007 | |
  Location of Chittenango Falls State Park within New York State | |
| Type | State park |
| Location | 2300 Rathbun Road Cazenovia, New York[1] |
| Nearest city | Syracuse, New York |
| Coordinates | 42°59′N 75°51′W / 42.98°N 75.85°W |
| Area | 193 acres (0.78 km2)[2] |
| Created | 1922[3] |
| Operated by | New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation |
| Visitors | 46,988 (in 2014)[4] |
| Open | All year |
| Website | Chittenango Falls State Park |
Chittenango Falls State Park is a 193-acre (0.78 km2) state park located in Madison County, New York,[2][5] east of Cazenovia Lake. The park features a 167-foot (51 m) waterfall that cascades over roughly 400-million-year-old bedrock. At the bottom of the falls Chittenango Creek flows underneath a wooden bridge.[6] The park offers a variety of activities including picnic tables with pavilions, a playground, a nature trail, hiking, and fishing.
Approximately 45,000 visitors come to the park each year to engage in a variety of outdoor recreational activities.[4] Although many camping guides still mistakenly list it as a campground, the park's campground was closed in the mid-2000s.
Chittenango Falls State Park is also home to the endemic and endangered Chittenango ovate amber snail (Novisuccinea chittenangoensis).[6]
Chittenango Falls once marked the boundary between the lands of the Oneida people and the Onondaga people. In 1784 the Oneidas called it “a Place where the Water runs over a Ledge of Rocks” when explaining their homeland’s boundaries to commissioners from New York.[7]
- ^ "Chittenango Falls State Park". NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
- ^ a b "Section O: Environmental Conservation and Recreation, Table O-9". 2014 New York State Statistical Yearbook (PDF). The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government. 2014. p. 671. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 16, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
- ^ "Chittenango Falls State Park Brochure" (PDF). NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 1, 2016. Retrieved April 28, 2015.
- ^ a b "State Park Annual Attendance Figures by Facility: Beginning 2003". Data.ny.gov. Retrieved May 27, 2015.
- ^ "Chittenango Falls State Park". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved April 28, 2015.
- ^ a b Breisch, Alvin; Niver, Robin (2006). "Chittenango Ovate Amber Snail (Novisuccinea chittenangoensis) Recovery Plan, First Revision" (PDF). Hadley, Massachusetts: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
- ^ Koch, Daniel (April 1, 2023). Land of the Oneidas: Central New York State and the Creation of America, From Prehistory to the Present. State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-9270-4.