Boaters wait to enter Erie Canal Lock E-2 to begin the first day of the 2023 navigation season for the state’s canal system on Friday morning, May 19, 2023, in Waterford, N.Y.

Biking New York’s Erie Canal: Lessons from two cross-state journeys One writer's advice on biking the state's Canalway Trail, including manners on the trail, staying safe By Gary Hahn , Former ...

When it was completed about seven years later, the Erie Canal was 363 miles long, 40 feet wide and four feet deep, according to “A Brief History of the Erie Canal,” published by the New York ...

In 1995, Tammee Poinan Grimes’s parents purchased a 60-foot-long tour boat to use for sightseeing cruises along the Erie Canal. The expense of shipping the boat from San Francisco to Upstate New ...

The Erie Canal is turning 200. New York is throwing a summer-long party. The waterway, one of the continent’s most significant, has a history full of abolitionism, commerce and cultural connection.

A boat makes a morning trip through the Erie Canal in Rochester, New York, October 2021. Johnny Milano. Former President Thomas Jefferson considered the proposal “little short of madness.” ...

Workers spend winter on the Erie Canal preparing for its bicentennial navigation season. The New York State Canal System is open to the public May-October each year. But what happens when the ...

It’s our first morning on the Erie Canal, a waterway slicing through the countryside of upstate New York, from Lake Erie to the Hudson River, for nearly 600 kilometres.