Ithaca (New York) Activities: Nature and Science

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• Cayuga Nature Center www.cayuganaturecenter.org - Visitors to Cayuga Nature Center can explore the wonders of the natural world first hand. Cayuga Nature Center has over five miles of trails and a lodge filled with indoor exhibits including a kids' activity room. Cayuga Nature Center prides itself with our collection of indoor and outdoor live animal exhibits and our seasonal butterfly house. TreeTops, our six-story tree house, and five miles of trails are open from dawn to dusk. Cayuga Nature Center offers a wide range of educational activities including environmental and animal programs, an active outreach program, our TEAM Challenge ropes course, and much more.

• Farmers' Market www.ithacamarket.com
• Sciencenter www.sciencenter.org - The Sciencenter, located at 601 First Street in Ithaca, is a hands-on science museum for people of all ages with over 250 fun exhibits, educational programs, an outdoor science park, a seasonal 18-hole miniature golf course, an animal room, and a gift shop. The Sciencenter is open Tuesdays through Saturdays, from 10AM to 5PM and Sundays from noon to 5PM Admission is $7 for adults, $6 for seniors, and $5 for children ages 3-17. Admission is free to members and children under the age of three. The museum's traveling exhibitions change seasonally and there is always something new to explore. The Sciencenter, named the “2006 Not-for-Profit Organization of the Year” by the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce, welcomes more than 91,000 visitors per year. The Sciencenter is a proud member of Ithaca's Discovery Trail.
• Light in Winter Festival www.lightinwinter.com - Favorite Ithaca resident Carl Sagan once said "Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known." The annual Light in Winter Festival celebrates that possibility by looking at the world through a different lens in the hopes of enlightening, educating and entertaining visitors. LIW takes place the last weekend in January and is one of the few festivals in the world which celebrates the intersections of art and science. In 2007, the Festival theme is "Connections", and will host Pilobolus, the Bang-on-a-Can All Stars with Iva Bittova, Oscar-winning sound designer Gary Rydstrom of Pixar, Christopher Rothko and NPR's "Piano Puzzler" Bruce Adolphe in 'The Tiger's Ear', the NY Times' Andrew Revkin and "The North Pole Was Here", Harvard string theorist Lisa Randall, Wine and the Mind, and more. January 26 - 28, 2007.

• Lab of Ornithology www.birds.cornell.edu

• www.cayuganaturecenter.org
• www.ithacamarket.com
• www.sciencenter.org
• www.lightinwinter.com
• www.birds.cornell.edu