Have you ever felt like you need a vacation the moment you get back from a vacation? It seems silly to say, but sometimes travel can be exhausting. Catching a flight, booking accommodations, navigating through an unknown city - it’s a lot of work for someone looking...

Every year, no matter how cold and bitter the winter, the flowers finally bloom, the birds begin to sing and the animals prepare for warmer weather. While signs of spring may seem constant, they are highly susceptible to our changing climate. Red maples, one of the...

DCL Director Bill, teaching virtually in our office building at the Tompkins Center for History & Culture After more than a year of the COVID-19 pandemic and a cold winter, most of us are a bit stir crazy and feeling ready for a vacation! Many of us have been...

While snow still covers the ground in some places, the first signs of spring have already arrived in Ithaca. As temperatures rise, the robins begin to welcome the morning with song: Cheerily, cheer up, cheer up, cheerily, cheer up! Brightly-colored buds burst out from...

Are you itching to get outside? Between the cold weather and the global pandemic, many of us have found ourselves craving time in nature. While some have found respite in skiing or snowshoeing during the long winter, others long for green foliage and warm...

At Discover Cayuga Lake, we are all about education. We work with teachers year round in partnership with our Trout in the Classroom and Floating Classroom programs. As nature-lovers, many of us spent our childhood digging in the dirt and splashing in streams. Now,...