Cascadilla Gorge/ Cascadilla Falls

This gorge gave its name to "Cascadilla Falls," one of the best-known poems by A.R. Ammons:

"...oh

I do

not know where I am going

that I can live my life

by this single creek."

Ithaca's spectacular gorges are a major motif in its literature. Two Vladimir Nabokov characters meet in a gorge on an outing to "New Wye Falls." The War Between the Tates notes that "...here in Corinth, because of its unique geological history, the means of suicide are always at hand. Wherever claustrophobia strikes, you are seldom far from the easy way out, the traditional Corinth University way, out."