Such is the winter-wonderland sight that tourists, cameras in hand, are braving the frigid winter to see. Though known for its hundreds of acres of lush terrain and trails conducive to hiking, Niagara Falls State Park, just outside Buffalo, boasts equally stunning views even as temperatures drop and crowds thin.

“I came here in the summertime four years ago,” Zieong Zang, who made the seven-hour drive from Jersey City, told the Buffalo News. “It was good, but it wasn’t like this. This is just outstanding, with all the snow and the trees coated like sugar.”

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Some say the photos don’t do the beauty justice, but here are a few examples, taken by Buffalo News photographer Sharon Cantillon:

And here are a few more, taken from the Canadian side:

In 2014, pictures purporting to show frozen-solid falls circulated online. But as The Washington Post’s Caitlin Dewey, who is from Niagara Falls, noted, these are “either totally misleading or outright false.” Many of the photos, as BuzzFeed News reported, were old ones.

More than 3,000 tons of water flows over Niagara Falls every second. Hundreds of thousands of gallons fall over each of the three falls that make up Niagara Falls.

“It would take a lot more than a few days of cold weather to completely shut that off,” Dewey wrote.

Still, the ice over the Niagara River at the base of the falls sometimes gets so thick that people had been known to build concession stands across it or walk over to Canada. But in 1912, when about three dozen people were standing on what had been called the ice bridge, a large piece of ice fell over and caused the bridge to crack. Three people, including a married couple, were swept to their deaths, and their bodies were never found. Walking over the ice bridge is no longer allowed.

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Snow is expected throughout the week, with temperatures hovering between 8 degrees and 21 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the National Weather Service. Wind chills would bring temperatures to below zero degrees.