Some weeks ago, a few friends and I took a trip out to Olean in southwestern New York. Here we visited Rock City Park, a privately-owned parcel in the town of Allegany consisting of a number of interesting rock formations. Miles of trails loop through deep crevasses and canyons cut through the rocks of the Allegheny Plateau.
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| Autumnal shrubbery grows atop a cleared rock outcrop. |
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| The park's main trail winds through many crevasses like this one. |
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| Autumn colors seen from within a cavernous area. |
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| Massive rock outcrops like this one characterize the park. |
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| These pine trees, known as the Three Sisters, grow in sparse soil atop solid rock. |
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| Old farm equipment, reclaimed by nature, is scattered throughout the park. |
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| For every crevasse that led to a new trail, there seemed to be countless that dead-ended like this one, sometimes after hundreds of feet. |
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| This rock structure juts out from the maple forest it inhabits, its tip rising above the treetops. |
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| The Sphinx, a natural formation that bisects another dead-end corridor. |
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| The bare rock atop the formations is home mostly to low-lying shrubs, although a few brave trees eek out a life there as well. |
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| Geiger Ridge overlooks some colorful shrubs on the rock structures' tops. |
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| This formation, known as the Moray Eel, was more prominent from below, but very difficult to photograph. |
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| A view northwest into Lippert Hollow. |
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| A much closer look at the above scene. Despite extensive research, I have been unable to identify the complex near center. |
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