May 1, 2025
The Wyoming County Chamber & Tourism office is encouraging everyone to again vote for Letchworth State Park in the 2025 USA Today Readers’ Choice Award for Best State Park. Letchworth State Park is one of the top nominees selected by US travel experts and was nominated among the top state parks nationwide. Letchworth State Park won the top designation in this contest in 2015. As of May 1, 2025, Letchworth is in the #2 leaderboard position for the 2025 contest out of 20 state parks.
“Letchworth State Park is a well-known, locally loved and internationally recognized attraction that receives approximately 1 million visitors every year, said Scott Gardner, President of the Chamber and Tourism office. The Park’s visitors and local fans voted overwhelmingly in 2015 for this beautiful state park, and we encourage everyone to keep the voting going so that we can win this coveted designation again this year.”
Voting for Letchworth State Park is easy; simply visit USA Today’s contest website https://10best.usatoday.com/awards/best-state-park/, then scroll down the page and cast a vote for Letchworth State Park. You can vote for the park once per day until the contest ends on Monday, May 12, 2025 at noon ET. The winning state parks will be announced on Wednesday, May 21.
The earliest state parks in the United States date back to the mid-1800s, and today, the 50 states collectively manage nearly 10,000 state park units, attracting over 867 million visitors annually.
For more information, please call 585-786-0307 or visit the websites at www.wycochamber.org or www.ExploreLetchworth.com.
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