Catharine Cottages

04/13/2026

02/21/2026

Ever hear of the Catharine Valley Trail? It goes through a beautiful part of the state including Watkins Glen, Horseheads, Montour Falls, and other historic towns. For details visit gofingerlakes.org/catharine
Photo: Bill Hecht

08/23/2025

In recent years, farm-to-table businesses have become a cultural phenomenon in the Finger Lakes Region rediscovering its roots. Many restaurant owners and chefs take pride in supporting their local farms and producers. In the surrounding Finger Lakes Region, over 50 percent of businesses and restaur...

08/20/2025

08/17/2025

07/28/2025

Exploring the Finger Lakes to help you plan the perfect wine tour!

06/19/2025

05/04/2025

Walking distance from Catharine Cottages.

04/24/2025

“Scaling Our Gorges,” online now (via https://www.fingerlakes.org/events/scaling-our-gorges) and on Ithaca cable channel 13 at the following times:
Thursday, April 24, at 9 p.m.
Friday, at 3 p.m.
Saturday, at 9 a.m. & 5 p.m.
Sunday, April 27, at 9:30 a.m. & 5 p.m.
Or stream online anytime, anywhere.

Each spring, the Finger Lakes State Parks Scaling Teams rappel down cliffs over Gorge Trails, manually removing shards of shale that winter freezing has left perched on ledges. If they didn’t do this hard, dangerous work, called “scaling,” it would not be safe enough for us to walk in the gorges, for fear of falling rock. Scaling must be conducted annually in six state parks in the Finger Lakes region. In this encore episode (167) of Walk in the Park from 2017, we take a close look at the scalers at work on the high cliffs in the upper gorge of Enfield Glen in Robert H. Treman State Park near Ithaca, NY. The scalers tell us and show us what’s involved.

Photo: Scaler cleans a high cliff over the Gorge Trail in Watkins Glen State Park.

Walk in the Park is a non-commercial, public access television series cablecast on channel 13 in Ithaca, NY, and streamed online. It is produced by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions, Owlgorge.com, a Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance partner.