Letchworth State Park, NY questions

I don't really have any experience with biking, but I can talk a bit about hiking in Letchworth. For seven years I lived just outside the park, and during that time I walked just about every marked trail in the park, some of them multiple times. The park includes land on both sides of the Genesee River. The west side is where 90% of the activity of the park takes place. Most hiking on that side of the park will be pretty close to civilization and lots of other people. If you want to have more of a deep-woods feel to your hiking, try the trails on the east side of the river. There's a really nice area down in the southern part of the park, on the east side of the river, where the trail overlooks the upper falls and runs along the track of a former railroad and (more distant past) former canal. If you look closely you'll be able to find remnants of both the railroad and the canal. The overlook to the gorge over the upper falls is a little scary to some because of the lack of guard rails. It could be dangerous to some people. You're also more likely to see wildlife (in addition to white-tailed deer which are everywhere) on the east side. If you hike the Letchworth Branch of the Finger Lakes Trail (on the east side), you may have a 24-mile hike in which you don't see another human being. Pretty unusual in this populated area of the state. It is also approved for biking.

-Speak