I wanted Dear Hubby (DH) to see Niagara Falls since he’d never been there, and I had only been there in 6th grade. We also wanted to check out the Finger Lakes of New York. Since we had to fly out of DC on our return trip (Thing 2 was doing a summer internship there), we quickly traveled to the Hudson River Valley and Philly. This is a fast-paced itinerary with lots of waterfall hikes!
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Home to Cornell University, Ithaca is a fun and quirky college town with its own sense of identity. We booked three nights in Ithaca because it is close to Taughannock Falls, Buttermilk Falls, and Robert Treman State Parks, which were on our itinerary.
Travel brochures and T-shirts around town proudly proclaim, “Ithaca is Gorges.” It’s true. Melting glaciers from the Ice Age cut deep gorges, producing over 150 waterfalls in the area. Add 30,000 residents and another 25,000 college students from Cornell and Ithaca College, and you’ve got a multicultural town filled with restaurants and cutting-edge technology.
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One thing that attracted us to staying in Ithaca was the location near three state parks with waterfalls: Buttermilk Falls, Taughannock Falls, and Robert Treman. In addition, the town of…