Welcome to the on-line home of the ITHACA SOUND MAZE!!

Our self-serve kiosk is now open and we have extended our season! **

The ITHACA SOUND MAZE is Tompkins County's first corn maze and sound garden. This 'kinder and gentler' style corn maze features a number of interactive 'instruments' and sound installations hidden throughout. The instruments were built by musician Walter White and metal artist David Mazzarella, and were created out of found and recycled materials collected at Steep Hollow Farm and other farms and sites around the Tompkins County region. There are no dead-ends... every path leads somewhere!

The ITHACA SOUND MAZE is located on the grounds of Steep Hollow Farm, three miles south of downtown Ithaca on Calkins Road just west of Route 13 (Elmira Road) in the Town of Ithaca, between Buttermilk Falls and Robert Treman State Park (see map below or click for more details and directions).

Through Sunday, November 2 * Due to popular demand and the nice weather, we've decided to stay open a couple extra weeks - stay tuned for the closing date! It's self-serve only from this point unless special arrangements are made.

ADMISSION: $5/person. Anyone under 5, FREE!

* The self-serve kiosk is available any day during daylight hours! Look for the colorful umbrella in a spool and please pay the little black box. Click here to download information sheets and checklists.

We'd like to thank George Sheldrake from Earlybird Farms for planting the corn and contributing raw materials for the instruments, Bob and Richard Mazourek from Mazourek Farms for the harrow teeth (they sound great), Heather and the crew at Eddydale Farm Stand for the cider and grapes, and especially our good buddy, musician and educator, Frank Youngman, whose original sound gardens were the inspiration for our own version here in Ithaca. Thanks, Frank! (More about Frank's work in Park City, Utah, and Cadillac, MI).

Thanks for visiting the website! We hope to see you soon in person! Stop on by and lend us your 'ear'!

Your friends at the ITHACA SOUND MAZE!!

Instrument builder, Walter White, play-testing the stainless-steel pressure-washer 'gongs'.

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