Location

The 200-acre Saltonstall Arts Colony and Foundation offices are located near Ithaca, New York in the heart of the beautiful Finger Lakes region.

HOW TO GET HERE

Ithaca, New York is at the base of Cayuga Lake, in the heart of Central New York's Finger Lakes region. We are centrally isolated - only 25 miles west of I-81 and 40 miles south of the NYS Thruway I-90.

Approximate travel time by car: from Albany - 2 1/2 hours; from Buffalo - 3 hours; from NYC - 4 1/2 hours; and from Syracuse - 1 hour.

Planes, Buses, Taxis and Car Rentals

Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport: 607.257.0456
US Airways Express: 607.257.0808
www.usairways.com

Bus Service:
Greyhound: 607.272.7930
www.greyhound.com

New York Trailways: 1.800.295.5555
Shortline: 607.277.8600
www.shortlinebus.com

Local Public Bus Transportation: 607.277.7433
www.tcatbus.com

Taxicabs and Airport Shuttles
Ithaca Dispatch Inc.: 607.277.7777; 1.888.321.1149
www.ithacataxi.biz

Ithaca Airline Limousine: 607.273.3030

MAPQUEST Link

Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts
435 Ellis Hollow Creek Road
Ithaca, New York 14850

DISCOVER ITHACA (lodging, camping, restaurants, etc.) at:

http://www.visitithaca.com

"Ithaca is Gorges" boasts the popular local bumper sticker. We define ourselves by our geography. The gorges and waterfalls, glacier-begotten Cayuga Lake, the hills and the flats all have made us what we are, have shaped and defined our landscape.

The first inhabitants were hunters who came here following the game some 13,000 years ago. They were followed the Iroquois, one of the Five Nations that formed a confederacy in 1450. Early European explorers wrote about the wonders of this place and the peoples who lived here; Jesuit missionaries came to convert the natives. Little changed until the American Revolution, when George Washington sent an army under Generals Sullivan and Clinton to drive the Indians from their lands in 1779.

You will feel at home here in Ithaca -- a lively and progressive upstate New York community at the base of Cayuga Lake. Our community has a rich and diverse history -- we have always been on the cutting edge. We were one of the first communities to have telephones, electric lights and street cars -- partly because Cornell University is here, but also because Ithacans have always been visionaries. Ithaca is also known as the birthplace of the ice cream sundae and, once upon a time, was home to a silent movie studio. They called Ithaca "a director's dream of paradise come true" ~ the exquisite landscape of gorges, hills, waterfalls, and historic buildings captivated the eyes of early movie makers (until they discovered the more temperate zone of Hollywood). Ithaca is also the home to Ithaca College, Ithaca Hours, The Ithaca Festival, I-town Records, The State Theatre, Light in Winter and so much more.