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The Erie Canal is a destination for tourists from all over the world, and has inspired guidebooks dedicated to exploration of the waterway. [43] [59] An Erie Canal Cruise company, based in Herkimer, operates from mid-May until mid-October with daily cruises. The cruise goes through the history of the canal and also takes passengers through Lock 18.
This is a route-map template for the Erie Canal, a waterway in New York (state), the United States.. For a key to symbols, see {{waterways legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The New York State Canal System (formerly known as the New York State Barge Canal) is a successor to the Erie Canal and other canals within New York.The 525-mile (845 km) system is composed of the Erie Canal, the Oswego Canal, the Cayuga–Seneca Canal, and the Champlain Canal. [2]
The Great Loop is a system of waterways that encompasses the eastern portion of the United States and part of Canada. It is made up of both natural and man-made waterways, including the Atlantic and Gulf Intracoastal Waterways, the Great Lakes, the Erie Canal, and the Mississippi and Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. [1]
A mule-drawn tourist barge operates at the National Canal Museum: Leiper Canal: PA: 1829 1852 3 mi (4.8 km) Love Canal: NY: Main Line of Public Works: PA: Miami Canal: FL: Miami and Erie Canal: OH: 1844 1913 274 mi (441 km) Middlesex Canal: MA: 1803 1851 27 mi (43 km) Milan Canal: OH: 1839 1868 Mississippi River–Gulf Outlet Canal: LA: 1968 ...
New Castle, which the Beaver and Erie served, was the eastern terminus of Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal, which ran 91 miles (146 km) west to the Ohio and Erie Canal in Ohio. Another east–west canal, the French Creek Feeder, brought additional water into Conneaut Lake at the same time it provided a transportation corridor.
Five miles (8.0 km) east of Butternut Creek, the canal passes by the entrance to Green Lakes State Park. The park's terminus is at the Erie Canal Village, a now defunct privately operated museum and historic recreation of a 19th-century canal village located outside of Rome, [2] which featured a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway. [3]
Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site, also known as Erie Canal National Historic Landmark, is a historic district that includes the ruins of the Erie Canal aqueduct over Schoharie Creek, and a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) long part of the Erie Canal, in the towns of Glen and Florida within Montgomery County, New York.