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Penned by a University retiree, the guide to getting out into the region\u2019s natural beauty features maps by a recent grad<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBear Hugs\u201d celebrates heartwarming stories of Cornellians on the Hill and around the world. Have an idea? Email us at cornellians@cornell.edu<\/strong><\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Beth Saulnier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cornellians with even the mildest interest in the great outdoors are likely familiar with the Ithaca area\u2019s \u201cbig three\u201d state parks\u2014Buttermilk Falls, Treman, and Taughannock Falls\u2014as well as the Cascadilla Gorge Trail, which offers a quick route between Collegetown and Downtown for those willing to tackle its many (many!) stairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But how about Lick Brook? Or Shindagin Hollow? Or the Black Diamond Trail? Or Connecticut Hill? These and many more are detailed in Best 50 Hikes in and around Ithaca NY<\/em><\/a>, a new guidebook from the Cayuga Trails Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Penned by Big Red retiree and longtime club member Myra Shulman, the softcover volume features dozens of custom maps by Russell Kwong \u201925, a former urban and regional studies major in AAP who tackled the project his senior spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI started with a naive idea that, \u2018I\u2019ll just do 25 hikes; how hard can this be?\u2019\u201d says Shulman, a retired senior researcher in ecology and evolutionary biology who long taught at Shoals Marine Lab<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>

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\u201cI made a list of 25 places, and immediately realized that many of them have multiple great hikes. So I ended up with 50, before I finally made myself stop.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Available only in physical form and priced around $28, the book is carried by several Ithaca retailers; at shops on campus (the Cornell Store, the Botanic Gardens welcome center, and Wild Birds Unlimited at the Lab of Ornithology); or via the Trails Club\u2019s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I made a list of 25 places, and immediately realized that many of them have multiple great hikes. So I ended up with 50, before I finally made myself stop.<\/p>\nAuthor Myra Shulman<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s divided into two sections: hikes located in and around Downtown Ithaca, and those that are farther flung into the countryside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For each one, it offers detailed information\u2014not just on typical topics like mileage, elevation, difficulty level, fees, seasonal closures, and the availability of facilities like restrooms, but also whether the routes are wheelchair accessible and if the trailhead can be reached via local TCAT buses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shulman in Shindagin Hollow State Forest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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In a grid toward the end, Shulman ranks the hikes by difficulty, from easy\u2014like the nearly flat Gorge Trail at Taughannock Falls State Park, a two-mile round trip alongside a meandering creek bed\u2014to strenuous, such as a 7.4-mile trek on the Finger Lakes Trail through Robinson Hollow State Forest with a 1,650-foot gain in elevation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s so much great nature in and around Ithaca, and everyone should get out there and enjoy it,\u201d Shulman says. \u201cThere are health benefits to being out there; there\u2019s joy in being out there. So being able to share information about where to go to have those benefits is just wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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As Shulman notes, part of the impetus for the project was to counter the misconception that since many of the state parks’ most popular and scenic trails aren’t open part of the year for safety reasons, the region’s winter hiking options are paltry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“But there are so many interesting places to go,” she says, “including other trails at those same state parks that you can<\/em> hike on through the winter\u2014some of which provide you with views of the waterfalls, just not on the closed gorge trails.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book is divided into two sections: hikes located in and around Downtown Ithaca, and those that are farther flung into the countryside.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Shulman recruited Kwong to the project through his membership in the Cornell Mapping Society, a small group of students who meet weekly to share their love of cartography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also play geographic games like GeoGuessr<\/a>, in which players are \u201cdropped\u201d somewhere around the globe and have to figure out their location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Happy Trails: A Sampling of Kwong’s Maps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

(Story continues below)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Cascadilla Gorge Trail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\"A
Fall Creek Gorge and Cornell’s Newman Arboretum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve in West Danby.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lime Hollow Nature Center in Cortland.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI thought it was a perfect opportunity to tie in my educational experiences learning GIS [geographic information systems] in the classroom,\u201d says the NYC-based Kwong, \u201cand getting myself more exposed to the Ithaca surroundings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kwong spent more than a year iterating the book\u2019s illustrations, using a program called ArcGIS Pro he\u2019d learned from a freshman-year class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I thought it was a perfect opportunity to tie in my educational experiences learning GIS in the classroom and getting myself more exposed to the Ithaca surroundings.<\/p>\nRussell Kwong \u201925<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

He drew on such resources as the New York State Parks system, the state\u2019s Department of Environmental Conservation, the Finger Lakes Land Trust, Cornell Botanic Gardens, Google Maps, and previous Trails Club publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Shulman \u201cground-truthed\u201d all the trail maps, he says, he went on a number of the hikes himself\u2014and for those he didn\u2019t, he traversed them virtually using Google Maps satellite view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Russell
Kwong in Treman State Park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMaps are amazing\u2014I really love how they tell a story,\u201d says Kwong, who was recently hired as an environmental specialist at the state Department of Transportation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are so many stylistic choices involved in making maps. They\u2019re like a mystery you can uncover to understand more about the world around you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top: A Cascadilla Gorge hike during Reunion 2023<\/em> (Jason Koski \/ Cornell University); all other images provided.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published July 8, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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