Environment
Tremble in the Shadow of New York's 50-Foot 'Ice Volcano'
The massive, frozen cone is the product of this winter's bitter temperatures.
Years down the road, New York natives are going to remember how their parents dragged them into a bitterly cold forest to see this: a towering ice prong spitting blasts of water 50 feet in the air.
The "ice volcano" or "frozen geyser," as it's been incorrectly dubbed, splurts in chilly majesty in Letchworth State Park, located about an hour's drive east of Buffalo. The park is marketed as the "Grand Canyon of the East" for its impressive vistas, but during the winter it sometimes grows this second attraction. And thanks to bone-chilling temperatures, 2015's glacial stalagmite is truly immense.