Cornell Botanic Gardens
Choose a garden, arboretum or designated natural-area walk using current university visitor information.
Visitor details ↗
A place worth knowing
Make room for Ithaca.
Balance a garden or waterfall outing with time on the Commons and a local meal. Choose a route suited to your group and let gorge conditions, rather than a checklist, shape the day.
A few good ways to begin.
Choose a stop, then leave room for the unexpected.
Taughannock Falls State Park
Plan a separate drive toward Trumansburg for the park’s viewpoints or designated trails. Check seasonal closures and conditions.
Visitor details ↗Ithaca Commons & local life
Use the visitor guide to choose downtown shops, arts and food. Confirm opening days with individual businesses.
Visitor details ↗Eat & drink
Choose a local food stop around Ithaca using the visitor dining directory. Confirm menus, opening days and reservations with the business.
Explore local dining ↗Stay awhile.
Choose a base for your days around Ithaca. Compare dates, location and the operator’s booking terms.
Local places to stay ↗A little farther along.
Your next good stop.
Find a business. Put yours on the map.
Browse published places around Ithaca. Business details are supplied by their owners.
Photo credits & visitor sources
Real New York photographs. Photo dates vary; images illustrate places, not current weather or operating conditions.
- Ithaca Falls on Fall Creek, one of two prominent cascades that support a local slogan, "Ithaca is Gorges" (a play on the word "gorgeous") in Ithaca, New York — Carol M. Highsmith. Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- Watkins Glen State Park - 050 - Gorge Trail - Rainbow Bridge and Rainbow Falls.jpg — Photo by Joe Mabel. Photograph by Joe Mabel CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
Independent visitor sources; inclusion is not a paid placement or an endorsement by the source.
County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb, New York FIPS36. Six WTDO areas are editorial discovery groupings.