ITHACA, N.Y. – The tourism office of Ithaca, New York, is waving the white flag on winter and advising visitors to its website to check out the ******* Keys instead.

VisitIthaca.com’s home page displays Sunshine State vacation photos and provides links to the website for tourism information about the ******* Keys and Key West.

The top of the Ithaca page reads: “That’s it. We surrender. Winter, you win. Key West anyone?”

Referring to “this ridiculously stupid winter,” the Ithaca website suggests visiting the ******* Keys this week and returning “when things thaw out.”

Ithaca and the rest of upstate New York have been in the grips of a snowy and brutally cold winter. The most recent cold snap sent temperatures plunging as low as 28 degrees below zero in the Adirondacks early Tuesday.