Welcome to Ithaca — Where innovation & culture converge. Come experience a quality of life that makes you feel connected and human again. Spend time with your family, build your business, meet your neighbors, expand your education, enjoy the glorious outdoors, and take time for yourself. Breathe!

The Commons, Downtown Ithaca on a typical summer Friday afternoon.
Designated one of the four best small cities in America, the country’s “most enlightened city,” and a superb place to retire, Ithaca is located at the southern tip of beautiful Cayuga Lake, the heart of the Finger Lakes region. With its great natural beauty, and diverse, cosmopolitan, and well educated workforce, the Ithaca area is an attractive and exciting place to work and live. Add to the mix optimistic and pioneering local governments, good schools, an innovative spirit – even its own progressive monetary system, “Ithaca Hours” -- and the kinds of cultural and dining riches that a great university and several top-flight colleges attract, and you come close to perfection.

Ithaca Downtown Partnership

Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce

Tompkins County Visitors Bureau