• The 14 counties in the Finger Lakes Region cover more than 9,000 square miles roughly the size of New Hampshire or Vermont, and slightly larger than the state of New Jersey.
  
  
• Ithaca is host to over 150 waterfalls, all of which lie within a 10-mile radius of downtown.
  
  
• Tompkins County is home to 3 gorge parks. (There are only 6 within the entire state of New York.)
  
  
• Taughannock Falls is 215 feet high, a greater vertical drop than Niagara Falls.
  
  
• Ithaca offers more restaurants per capita than New York City.



• The September/October 2003 issue of Organic Style magazine voted Ithaca the "best healthy city in the Northeast."
  
  
• Other cities claim to have invented the ice cream sundae, but none has written evidence predating Ithaca's. A "Cherry Sunday" ad from the Ithaca Daily Journal, april 5, 1892 remains the oldest-known record of the sundae's creation.

Ithaca/Tompkins County Convention & Visitors Bureau
904 East Shore Drive, Ithaca, New York 14850
Phone: 607-272-1313 or 800-28-ITHACA