James Potorti Interpretive Gorge Walks

Explore our local geology throughout August with special interpretive gorge walks led by Museum educators. You can journey into the rock at a different state park each Friday in August  from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. No registration is required! Free for everyone!

August 6th: Taughannock Falls State Park
Meet at the parking lot near Lower Falls and start of the Gorge Trail.

August 13th: Robert H. Treman State Park
Meet at the end of the Upper Treman parking lot, near the start of the Gorge Trail

August 20th: Watkins Glen State Park
Meet at the end of the lower (main) parking lot, near the beginning of the trail.

August 27th: Buttermilk Falls State Park
Meet near the bottom of Buttermilk Falls and the start of the Gorge Trail 

About the James Potorti Interpretive Gorge Walks:

PRI has been offering summer gorge walks for 12 years. They were officially renamed in 2005 to the James Potorti Interpretive Gorge Walks in memory of Ithaca native James E. Potorti, who died in the September 11, 2001 attacks. The renaming of the walks was a result of an endowment gift to the Museum from his widow, Nikki Stern, Executive Director of Families of September 11. Potorti, 52, was a vice president at Marsh & McLennan, a financial services company, and worked on the 94th floor of 1 World Trade Center. His first career, however, was as a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. He grew up in Ithaca and attended SUNY Oswego.