Charlotte Pier - Rochester, NY
Posted by: 
sagefemme
N 43° 15.515 W 077° 36.226
18T E 288658 N 4792822
This pier at the Rochester Harbor in Charlotte is 721 meters long (go to N 43° 15.840 W 077° 35.933) with a lighthouse at the end (well, a structure that houses a harbor light).
Waymark Code: WME7C4
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 04/13/2012
Views: 6
At least a half dozen fisherman were catching perch on my visit in mid-April. One of them told me that trout and salmon could also be pulled out here.
Another pier supports the eastern side of the Genesee River. Opposite the land side of the pier is the Coast Guard station. Opposite the Lake Ontario end is the end of the other pier, which appears to have a weather station on the end of it.
Lake barges pass through the Rochester Harbor, up to Turning Point Park. For awhile, the ferry that serviced Rochester to Toronto traffic from the Port of Rochester, and these piers protect the mouth of the Genesee River from an invasion of sand from the beach to the west.
The light "house" at the northern end of the pier also represents the northern terminus of the Genesee Riverway Trail that takes a hiker from the north end of the City of Rochester to the south end (Town of Brighten boundary line) and joins with the Genesee Greenway trail that can tak a hiker to Lockport, intersecting with the main Finger Lakes Trail. The caviate is that the hiker must walk the pier twice (out and back) to count the whole 18 miles of the Genesee Riverway Trail as complete!
Type of pier: Public
Expenses: none
Parking is available: Yes
Contact information:
Public pier attached to Charlotte Park
Handicap Accessible: Yes
Fishing Regulations: standard NYS fishing license
Web site: Not listed
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