Ithaca
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Interesting things to do
- Belle Sherman Elementary Playground
- Lots of spinning things.
- Cinemapolis
- Cornell Orchard Store
- Fruits, cider, and local produce, free samples
- Cornell campus
- Apple Vending Machine in Plant Science
- Beebe Lake
- Cornell Cinema
- Cornell Plantations
- Dairy Bar (Closed for renovations, 2011)
- Johnson Art Museum
- Mann Library
- Olin Library
- Snee Hall (Geological Science and Engineering)
- McGraw Tower, bell concerts
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Dewitt Mall
- Sew Green's Rescued for Re-use
- Pastimes:Antiques
- Sola Gallery:Japanese and other art
- Farmers' Market
- Saturday and Sunday at Steamboat Landing. Great vietnamese, sri lankan, other food. Honey, quilts, clothing, vegetables, and friendly faces.
- Floating Classroom
- Thursdays & Sundays, 4:00-6:00pm, from Steamboat Landing. Ecotours open to the public, just show up or call ahead and reserve. http://floatingclassroom.blogspot.com/
- Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College
- Hiking the gorges
- Ithaca Falls
- Cascadilla Gorge. As of 2011, you can hike much of the way up from the bottom, but not down from College Ave.
- Buttermilk Falls:Tied with Treman for best hike. Nice little campground. official web site
- Ludlowville Falls:One big fall, nice and laid back, near the playground.
- Six Mile Creek:Wildflower Preserve
- Taughannock Falls:official web site
- Robert Treman State Park:Enfield Glen. Awesome hike, campsites, swimming at bottom is allowed, very cold. official web site
- History Center
- The Commons
- Shopping, dining, events, and services
- The Sciencenter
- Museum of the Earth
- Stewart Park
- Picnics on the lake, tennis, soccer, frisbee, and events
- Cross Country Skiing
- Hammond Hill
- Connecticut Hill
- Cornell Plantations
Dining
- Alladin's Natural Eatery
- Consistently good mediterranean. Awesome (trucked in) desserts. Best felafel in town by far.
- Asia Cuisine
- Korean and Sushi.
- Asian Noodle House
- Shares a kitchen with Little Thai House, but bigger menu
- Carriage House Cafe
- Fancy food
- Collegetown Bagels
- Fast, best bagels and breads.
- Diamond's
- Diner-style Indian.
- Garcia's Mexican Restaurant
- Traditional American-Mexican dishes, friendly.
- Gimme Coffee–Green Street Station
- Designed by Alison for JS3.
- Ithaca Bakery
- Same as Collegetown Bagels, more room.
- Koko
- Home style Korean. Make your own cotton candy for free after your meal.
- Little Thai House
- Cheapest place to get a giant plate of food:pad thai, yellow curry tofu, sweet eggplant, string beans
- Manndible Cafe
- Excellent quality and flavor. Fun being in Mann Library.
- Mehak
- 410 Eddy St, great indian dishes.
- Moosewood Cafe
- Ithaca's most famous restaurant, be prepared to wait 10-30 minutes. http://www.moosewoodrestaurant.com/
- Pizza Aroma
- Corner of Cayuga and Green. Unique, flatbread pizzas and salvadoran specialties, like tamales, vegetarian and not.
- Purity Ice Cream
- Home of the Apple Stix Sundae.
- Risley Dining
- Looks like Hogwarts, convivial.
- Sangam
- Punjabi Indian
- Souvlaki House
- Inexpensive.
- Stella's
- Fancy-pants.
- Taste of Thai (not affiliated with ToTE!)
- Fresh ingredients.
- Taste of Thai Express (not affiliated with ToT!)
- Tellez' Catering
- Mexican food in Center Ithaca, open Monday to Saturday for lunch. Fixings bar is nice. Mexican candies.
- Temple of Zeus
- A lunch joint in Goldwyn Smith Hall, Cornell U. Awesome soups; a sublime tofu sandwich called BLTease. Get there before 12:30, when the soup runs out.
- Tibetan Mo Mo bar
- In Center Ithaca.
- The Nines
- Deep dish pizza excellent, a slice, preferably with several toppings, is a meal.
- Viva Taqueria
- Best flavor, mucho culantro. Sit down service or fast bar.
- ZaZa's. Fancy italian.
Day Trips
Southwest
- Corning
- Corning Museum of Glass
- Thali, buttery Indian fare.
Northwest
- Trumansburg
- Sampson State Park
- WWII Army and Navy Base
- Rochester
- Geneva
- Small college town
Northeast
- Auburn
- Case Research Lab Museum, the birthplace of sound on film. http://www.cayuganet.org/cayugamuseum/researchlab.htm
- Skaneateles
- Syracuse
- Westcott area:Alternative college-town, vintage clothing, cheap eateries
- Marshall Street:Collegetown-like atmosphere, Alladin's Eatery, etc.
- Carousel Mall
- Armory Square
- NY State Fair
- Two weeks around Labor Day
