LOCKPORT, NY (WKBW) — The 27th annual Cycle the Erie Canal bike tour kicked off on July 12 from Buffalo and will arrive in ...

Cycle The Erie Canal bike tour begins ...

The marquee bicentennial event is the re-creation of the journey of the Seneca Chief, the packet boat on which New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton opened the canal in 1825.

Michael Messina-Yauchzy calls this project his "biggest undertaking." He promises a balanced look at the Erie Canal.

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.

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 ...

With Erie Canal turning 200, WMHT brings New York's economic engine back to life. By Larry Rulison, Staff Writer April 12, 2025. From left, Brian Stratton, Canal Corporation director, Catherine ...

I Explored Upstate New York on a Canal Boat — and It Was the Perfect Way to Slow Down. On a narrow-boat journey down New York’s Erie Canal, one writer finds a waterway steeped in history ...

A tour boat capsized in an underground cave along the Erie Canal in upstate New York on Monday, leaving one person dead and sending nearly a dozen others to the hospital, officials said.

A tour boat capsized Monday morning in a cave along the Erie Canal in Upstate New York, authorities said. One person died after being trapped beneath the boat for at least an hour. Fire officials ...