Destinations · New York
Ithaca
NY · 42.4430, -76.5000
Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway and Scenic Route 90 are signed byways within 30 miles of Ithaca, New York.
Understand
Ithaca is a town of contrasts, and it attracts many different types of visitors. The city is very much a college town, but is also home to a vibrant permanent community. Ithaca is compact yet surrounded by and filled with extensive outdoor attractions. Even Cornell University is a contrast, being the only Ivy League University that is also a Land Grant, state sponsored, University.
Day-trip loops
Ready-made loops for Ithaca are growing. What is within reach is measured today; plan a live day trip and the engine routes it now.
Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway · inside
- Scenic Route 90 · 14 mi
Public land
Campgrounds
- Potomac Group Campground · 15 mi
- Backbone Horse Campground · 16 mi
- Blueberry Patch Campground · 16 mi
Lookouts
- Fuertes Swan Pond Overlook · 1 mi
- Taughannock Falls Overlook · 9 mi
Named places
- DeWitt Park · 0 mi
- Markels Flats · 0 mi
- Thompson Park · 0 mi
- Tompkins Center for History & Culture · 0 mi
- Treman Triangle Park · 0 mi
- Black Lives Matter · 0 mi
- Conway Park · 0 mi
- Washington Park · 0 mi
A day out of Ithaca, planned on real roads
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Trumansburg · 11 mi
- Eastern Finger Lakes · 16 mi
- Watkins Glen · 19 mi
- Cortland · 20 mi