Gorge Stairs Trailhead — Attraction in City of Niagara Falls

A great trail along an old trolley track. Pretty easy hike, especially going down the stairs near the Whirlpool Bridge and ascending a gentle incline on the old trolley bed back to the gorge rim. Walk back along the rim and be sure to stop by DiCamillo's Bakery a short distance off Whirlpool St. and reward yourself. There's also a branch leading down to the Maid of the Mist drydock. This branch is somewhat more difficult. There's a seasonal elevator from the drydock back up to the rim disembarking next to the former Schellkopf Geological Museum also on the rim...

One of the greatest and longest trail in Niagara Falls that will give you a real taste of life in the wilderness. The peace and relaxation of this park is amazingly unbelievable. Spend a day enjoying the view of the great Niagara Gorge and enjoy the sound of nature away from civilization. Highly recommended to true hikers and family who wants to give their children an educational approach to nature. But careful: small snakes, foxes, and poison ivy plants were visible in the area, although no harm...

I remember the days of My Youth in the 1960’s before they had a stairway here, there was an old steel cable from the original railroad bridge where us youth would repel down to the first dirt trail and walk the old trails to a big rock that was called Butterfly Rock that had a tree with a swinging rope on it where those that were brave swimmers would swing out and jump off that rope into an eddy to swim (not Me I’m still a non swimmer) but the State of NY cut that Tree Down...