Genesee Valley Greenway State Park Management Plan complete 90-mile corridor creates open space through five counties
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation has completed a comprehensive plan that will provide direction for the management and use of the Genesee Valley Greenway State Park.
Passing through historic villages in sixteen towns located in Monroe, Livingston, Wyoming, Allegany and Cattaragus counties, The Genesee Valley Greenway State Park is a 90-mile long open space corridor operated by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and follows the route of the Genesee Valley Canal (1840-1878) and the Pennsylvania Railroad Rochester Branch (1882-1963/1971).
Starting in the north at the Erie Canalway Trail in Rochester’s Genesee Valley Park and extending south to the Town of Cuba in Allegany County, the park will include a public, multi-use trail, and a variety of natural and historic resources. The management plan will be in effect for the next 10-15 years and recommends strategies to enhance the recreation and economic benefits to the public and local communities, provide and further develop an alternative transportation corridor, preserve physical links between ecological communities and to provide environmental protection and preserve historic and cultural resources.
Funding for the maintenance and operation of the Greenway will come from New York State Parks and the Friends of the Genesee Valley Greenway who have been planning for the Greenway since the early 1990s.
The plan is available on line at http://www.nysparks.com/inside-our-agency/masterplans.aspx or at the Regional Park Offices at Letchworth and Allegany State Parks.
