Cornell University Campus

The Cascadilla Gorge Trail connects downtown Ithaca to Cornell's campus — a mile of creek, stone staircases, and waterfalls that students walk to class. On the western edge of campus, nine Gothic halls built between 1913 and 1931 form the Baker Dormitories, their ivy-covered Collegiate Gothic architecture funded by New York banker George Fisher Baker. Between two of those halls stands a war memorial cloister inscribed with the names of 264 Cornellians who died in World War I. Come for the gorge trail; stay long enough to read the names.