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August Moon Spa at LaTourelle Print E-mail
August Moon Spa at LaTourelle
256-2772, 1150 Danby Rd., Ithaca
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A sanctuary that seamlessly blends health with luxury. Where you can experience exclusive treatments like our Therapeutic Jacuzzi Soaks & Waterfall Treatments as well as personally tailored traditional therapies. Here we offer an original creation of spa products utilizing organic and local ingredients. Some of the outstanding treatment ingredients are top-grade maple, and vino-therapy from the local wineries. Combining these local harvests creates truly unique therapies. We are inspired by the beauty around us to enhance the natural spirit of the beauty within you. Outside of the August Moon Spa you will find tranquility and green spaces on the surrounding 70 acres. Indulge your mind, soothe your body and revitalize your spirit. Visit August Moon Spa.
  • Organic foods/products
  • Use products locally produced/grown
  • Recycling program for guests
  • Nature trails
Directions:
From Ithaca go north on Rt. 96B, past Ithaca College, August Moon Spa is on the right side along with La Tourelle Resort & Spa and John Thomas Steak House.

From the south take Rt. 96B south, August Moon will be on the left.

 
Bonita Nudist Resort Print E-mail
Bonita Nudist Resort
215 Tuttle Hill Road, Candor, NY 13743
607-659-3868
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Seven rooms, 40 campsites (tent and RV), hook-ups, May-October, moderately priced.
A beautifully wooded, private and secure naturist retreat on 100+ acres of pristine woodland. We are a clothing-optional facility, family-oriented naturist campground. Amenities include heated outdoor pool, hot tub spa, five acre pond in the woods, boating, fishing, hiking trails, snack bar, game room with satellite TV, Wi-Fi and more. Rental cabins and rooms available in addition to 40 RV and tent sites. Affiliated with AANR and other quality nudist organizations.  Privately owned.
Open: May-October.
Directions:  Rt. 96 from Owego to Candor.  Left on Tuttle Hill Road.

 
Lime Hollow Nature Center for Environment and Culture Print E-mail
Glenn Reisweber, Executive Director - Lime Hollow Nature Center for Environment and Culture
338 McLean Rd.
Cortland NY 13045
607 662-4632
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Lime Hollow Nature Center for Environment and Culture purchased an additional 190 acres in 1998 that includes a four-acre pond, beaver pond, old fields and woodlands. In the 2004 “Critters of New York Pocket Guide” listed Lime Hollow’s wildlife viewing blind and Watchable Wildlife interpretative exhibit as one of Wildlife Forever’s highlighted projects in New York. They opened a $1 million Visitor Center facility located on McLean Road in May 2007. The Visitor Center boasts a stunning central exhibit space, a bird education room, several modular educational displays, gift-shop functionality, staff offices, and numerous “green building” features. Outside, the center features a creek-side bird sanctuary, and a “Trail for All” designed to give people with disabilities easy access to one of the center’s groomed trails. A portion of the scenic Tamarack Trail has been set aside for nature inspired outdoor art exhibits created by young people and local artists. The Nature Conservancy deeded 15 acres of woodlands bordering a nearby peat bog (Chicago Bog). A full range of public programs at the education Center on Gracie Road, local schools, senior centers, and other field sites. Popular programs include: Snake Night (real reptiles) and Creatures of the Night (after-dark walks and owl and bat demonstrations, campfire sing-a-long, star gazing and children’s games and activities, Artfest at the Hollow and Music in the Woods, and Maple Sugaring Day. Lime Hollow Nature Center for Environment and Culture is listed in the “Viewing Wildlife in New York” guidebooks as on of 77 choice wildlife-viewing sites. In 2007, the Robert P. Bush Memorial Bird Education Room and Siegle Bird Sanctuary (both at the Visitors Center) were listed on the Finger Lakes Birding Trail which is to be fully implemented in 2008.

Green practices include: natural arts and crafts, use of sustainable forms of energy, recycling program for visitors and nature trails.
Open to the public and the trails are open all year from dawn to dusk.
Approximately 2 miles west of the Route 281 & McLean Rd intersection on McLean Rd. Follow the binocular signs.
 
One Healthy Life Print E-mail
208 S. Main Street
Newark Valley, NY 13811
607-642-5448
www.onehealthylife.net

One Healthy Life offers personal services to you and your family with a Holistic approach focusing on the spiritual, mental/emotional, and physical aspects of health.

We encourage an open dialogue to help you develop a true understanding of health and set goals for obtaining greater wellness, increased mobility, pain reduction and/or improved performance. Our office provides individual privacy and a confidential place to discuss your health objectives.

Taking the time necessary to understand your health concerns allows you to better determine the best modality for optimal health improvement

 
Waterman Conservation Education Center Print E-mail
Waterman Conservation Education Center
Scott MacDonald
403 Hilton Road, Apalachin, NY 13732
607-625-2221
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Waterman Center has five property sites for hiking and a main interpretive center building that includes exhibits, classrooms, offices and a nature store. We have three live birds of prey: a Great-horned Owl, Red-tailed Hawk, and a Harris Hawk.  The wood chips on our trails are chipped from recycled Christmas trees in January. The wood paneling in our library was planed from downed cherry trees in the Waterman woods. Downed tree limbs, brush, etc. are left on the property for animal shelter.  Cross-country skis and snowshoe rentals when snow is available and during open trail hours.

Open Year-round Monday-Friday 9-4 pm, Saturday 10-4. Trails open dawn to dusk.
Directions:  From Rt. 17/I-86, take Exit 66 to Rt. 434 West. Travel 1.5 miles and turn left onto Hilton Road. Waterman Center is .5 miles on the left.
 

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