Ithaca's waterfalls were an early source of power for local industry. A gun-barrel factory at the base of Fall Creek tapped the Triphammer Falls in the 1820s. A few decades later, Jeremiah Beebe's plaster and flour mills relied on the force of water flowing through the gorge.
A young Ezra Cornell engineered the blasting of a tunnel through the solid rock walls of Fall Creek Gorge. His 15-foot-high tunnel replaced a system of wooden sluices hung from the cliff, which were regularly destroyed by ice and floods.
The coordinates take you to the entrance of a tunnel. BYOP and BYOF (bring your own flashlight) as this is a very dark, rocky tunnel. This is well-camouflaged cache located roughly in the middle of the tunnel cave near the divide of the cave. If you have walked into the river, you have gone too far.
We recommend that you park on Stewart Ave. Do not park on Willard Way the frats are sensitive and will call IPD!