Place near Ithaca NY

Factual Questions
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In 1993, I got picked up by my mom and her fiance to drive me from Cornell back down to Florida. We got lost on the way and instead of driving southeast like we were supposed to, we drove either south or southwest, IF I RECALL CORRECTLY (I may be mistaken.)

While lost, we came upon a scene with sticks in my mind, but I cannot find the corresponding place either looking for it physically or on online maps.

It was a tiny hill in a semi-residential area, with either a basketball court or a playground at the top. For some reason, I think the main reason it was beautiful was that it was so dry and crisp, and I usually hate dry things. Anyways enough with my raving.

I know this is a long shot, but can anyone here with knowledge of the Ithaca (or anywhere within 100 miles of it) surroundings help me? These are the criteria the place must meet, and I have looked on the USGS online maps at Terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com but cannot find one that matches all of them:
Necessary:

Outside of Ithaca proper.
Not north of Ithaca.
A right hand turn, but the turn is a bit less than 90 degrees, sort of like the right part of a “Y”.
A small hill with a steep slope on the right.
Pulls “around” the hill and upward, curving right.
Basketball court or playground at top of the small hill.
Several houses near the intersection.

Probably:
a “Y” intersection–the street we pulled into starts there.
does not have a stream intersecting it at the intersection.
does not have a stream running to the left of the street.
not east or southeast of Ithaca.
is before any major interstate relative to Ithaca.

Please help save me from more fruitless online searches…or maybe I need something to do at work? :smiley:

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Just s wild guess, but maybe

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Just a wild guess, but maybe Sunset Park ?

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Nope, I remember what that (“Sunset Park”) part of Ithaca looks like, I used to walk around there sometimes as a Cornell student. The place i’m thinking of is actually about the same hilliness and house density, though.

But thanks for the link I’m glad i checked it, as it looks beautiful in Mapquest…not so in Terraserver, as it adds an ugly City Blood-Red Brown Color to it (yeah, I’m weird, I look at maps for aesthetic satisfaction)

Speaking of which, and i’m probably gonna be pitted or moved for hijacking my own topic, but the best-looking town on a map has gotta be Woodstock’s USGS map…perhaps the perfect size town, aesthetically, with a bunch of streams that look like they would make perfect bridges over. Oddly enough, i’ve been through Woodstock 3 times at night but have never seen it during the day, just at night and on a topo map.