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About Ithaca Trails

Wildflowers and green plants grow by a riverbank under a cloudy sky, with hills and trees in the distance.

This website is an ongoing project of the Tompkins County Parks and Trails Network. Project management is a group effort, provided by the Town of Ulysses, Cornell Botanic Gardens, Bike Walk Tompkins, and Tompkins County Planning and Sustainability Department.

Our trail data is maintained by the Tompkins County Planning and Sustainability Department, in partnership with trail owners, stewardship organizations, and even hikers themselves. For more information about the Ithaca and Tompkins County area, see VisitIthaca.com.

We are grateful that this project is funded by the Tompkins County Tourism Program.

Current Trail Alerts

Roy H. Park Preserve

  • The north entrance to the Roy H. Park Preserve and the boardwalk will be closed to the public from Monday, July 7, through September 2025 as work is underway to install an ADA-accessible path. The south entrance will remain open during this time. Thank you for your patience.

Fall Creek Gorge Natural Area

  • The section of trail in Fall Creek Gorge west of the suspension bridge to Chi Psi is unstable and closed until further notice.

Cascadilla Gorge Natural Area

  • A portion of the Cascadilla Gorge Trail between Stewart Avenue and College Avenue will be closed until mid- to late-October 2025. The trail between Linn Street (Treman Triangle) up to the Stewart Avenue Bridge is now open.

Beebe Lake Natural Area

  • Hemlock Gorge trail upstream of Sackett Bridge is closed.

Black Diamond Trail

  • Starting September 2, 2025 park staff will be performing trail maintenance on the Black Diamond Trail between Perry City Road and Garrett Road. Sections of the trail will be intermittently closed between the hours of 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Monday – Thursday. Please use alternate routes during that time. The work is expected to last several weeks.