Labrador Hollow Gives Truxton a Pond, Bog, and Falls Landmark

Labrador Hollow sits where the Cortland and Onondaga County maps start talking to each other. DEC locates the Unique Area in Truxton and Fabius, and the place has the feel of a narrow glacial room: Labrador Pond on the floor, steep valley walls, boardwalk habitat, and Tinker Falls nearby.

That gives Truxton and Fabius a public landscape with more memory than state-route mileage alone. Labrador Pond has a hand launch on the west side, an accessible fishing pier, and panfish and largemouth bass fishing in a pond averaging about four feet deep.

The short routes make the hollow approachable. The Labrador Hollow Boardwalk is a 0.4-mile accessible loop from the main parking area, while the Tinker Falls Trail is a 0.25-mile one-way accessible route from the Route 91 parking area.

The rules keep the place specific. No swimming or bathing is allowed, motorized boats are prohibited, shoreline fishing is limited to protect vegetation, and hunting and trapping are split by zone. Pond, boardwalk, falls, and habitat all work best when people treat the hollow as a real place with its own limits, not a scenic pull-off.