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When you search for an RV in Ithaca, you’ll find yourself in New York State’s Finger Lakes region, between the cities of Rochester, Syracuse, and Binghamton. You’ll be able to visit the Ithaca College Natural Lands and Cayuga Lake. Make sure to visit the staffed, well-stocked Ithaca Visitors Center for maps, up-to-date information, other resources, and a warm welcome. No matter if you are traveling with family, with friends, or on a solo adventure, there is plenty to see, do, and play here.

If you choose not to drive your RV rental in Ithaca all the time, there are numerous public bus lines that you can make use of. Intercity bus routes are operated by OurBus, Greyhound Lines, New York Trailways, Shortline, Chemung County Transit (C-TRAN), Cortland Transit, and Tioga County Public Transit. Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT) serves Ithaca and Tompkins County.

The Great Outdoors

The Newman Municipal Golf Course is a challenging, nine-hole course with four sets of tees and beautiful views of hills, sailboats, Cass Park, and Stewart Park. Pull and power carts can be rented at the pro shop. Concessions include food and both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. If you rent an RV and love to golf, this is the place for you.

Cass Park features an ice rink, swimming pool, tennis courts and sports fields, playground equipment, an exercise trail, and a large picnic pavilion. Stewart Park offers pavilions, tennis courts, a playground with several play structures, a carousel, athletic fields, a duck pond, a spray pool, a municipal golf course, a bird sanctuary, and a wide array of trees, which can be seen in the Virtual Tree Tour.

The Ithaca area boasts over 150 waterfalls within 10 square miles, including Lick Brook Falls in the Sweedler Nature Preserve, Ithaca Falls on Fall Creek, and the falls at Taughannock Falls State Park. Cayuga Lake offers fishing, boating, swimming, beaches, lake cruises and boat tours, and boat and paddle boat rentals. You will enjoy exploring the area with your motorhome rental in Ithaca.

RV Parks

When you book an RV rental in Ithaca, you may want to also book a stay at the Pinecreek Campground. RV sites offer full hookups and WiFi. The campground features restrooms and hot showers, laundry facilities, a swimming pool, a trout stream, a catch-and-release fishing pond, an indoor arcade, recreational facilities, a playground, a dump station, and planned activities and themed weekends.

The Robert H. Treman State Park can also be a temporary home for your travel trailer rental near Ithaca. Sites provide electrical hookups. The park offers restrooms and showers, grills, picnic tables, a playground, a dumping station, swimming, fishing, hiking, hunting, and recreational and educational programming.

When you rent a motorhome in Ithaca, you can park and stay at the Sned-Acres Family Campground. RV sites feature full hookups with WiFi. Campground amenities include restrooms and showers, laundry facilities, a pool, a playground, an 18-hole disc golf course, an arcade, movie rentals and a book exchange, recreational facilities, a dump station, and a camp store.

The Spruce Row Campground could also be a good choice for your rental camper in Ithaca. This is a family-friendly and pet-friendly campground, so all are welcome. Sites include full hookups with WiFi. Campground amenities include restrooms and showers, laundry facilities, a pool, a playground, a “fun hut,” recreational facilities, a dog run, a camp store, hayrides, and planned activities and themed weekends.

Exploring the City

Adults can partake in the first and oldest running wine trail that features 15 award-winning wineries, a cidery, a meadery, and four distilleries. For those looking for something more conventional, there are also food tours, boat tours, fishing tours, and hot air balloon tours. The Discovery Trail appeals to visitors of all ages and consists of eight excellent attractions: the Sciencenter of Ithaca, the Museum of the Earth, the Cayuga Nature Center, the Cornell Johnson Museum of Art, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the History Center in Tompkins County, the Tompkins County Public Library, and the Cornell Botanic Gardens.

You may want to plan your Ithaca rental RV vacation so you are able to participate in some of the special events that the city hosts every year. Among the highlights are Wizarding Weekend, the Treleaven Winery Garden Concert Series, the Hair and Self-Care Festival, the Apple Harvest Festival, and the Downtown Ithaca Ice Festival, a National Ice Carving Association-sanctioned event. Ithaca is also home to Cornell University and Ithaca College and both these institutions offer a wide variety of educational, artistic, and cultural events and programming to the general public.

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