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.

A New York State Canal Corp. employee uses a torch to cut through steel in one of the valve holes at Lock 2 on the Erie Canal on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019, in Waterford. Lock 2 was going through ...

Day 2 of Ted & Tim's excellent bicycle adventure on the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail: 57 miles to from Akron to New Philadelphia and seeing Ohio from a fresh perspective.

On July 4, 1817, a shovel full of dirt, dug in Rome, marked the start of the original Erie Canal. It was officially completed in the fall of 1825, stretching from Albany to Buffalo. Take a trip ...

The 136-mile man-made canal connected Lake Erie to the Ohio River and Pittsburgh beginning in 1844, when the first boats made the journey up the canal. It stopped operating in 1871, after the Elk ...

All workshops will be held at the Erie Canal Museum at 318 Erie Blvd E, Syracuse, N.Y. 13202. Attendees can donate at check-out or in-person to help cover the cost of supplies and instructor time.

The Erie Canal opened Oct. 26, 1825 and proved one of the most successful public works projects in American history, reshaping large swaths of the national economy.

On Day 1 of Ted & Tim's excellent bicycle adventure from Cleveland to New Philadelphia, using the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail, we rode 44 miles to Akron and traveled through time on a path ...