You can bike, hike, or run along the historic route of the Ohio and Erie Canal. It is the same path where mules walked, ...

Before the Erie Canal and the locks that gave the city its name, Lockport was famous in the 1800s for its stone quarries. The stone was used to build many of the houses here, as well as buildings ...

The nematode, known to ecologists as Litylenchus crenatae mccannii and first discovered in 2012, causes beech leaf disease. It nests in the beech’s buds, replicates wildly, and causes havoc for its ...

This summer marks the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal, a historic waterway that has played a significant role in ...

A flotilla of kayaks and canoes are seen during the Paddle the Canals: Erie Canal 200! on Sunday, June 22, 2025, in Waterford, N.Y. Participants paddled the five locks of the Waterford Flight to ...

The state Canal Corporation on Friday announced the completion of a construction project to address persistent seepage along the Erie Canal’s earthen embankment in the town of Royalton. With the ...

The Erie Canal was full of kayakers and canoers this weekend as people celebrated the 200th anniversary of the canal’s opening. People went on a tour of the locks as part of the “Paddle the ...

The newly opened “Waterway of Change: Complex Legacies of the Erie Canal,” at Canalside in Buffalo commemorates the Erie Canal Bicentennial. The engaging new visitor experience, a 2,900-square ...

The Erie Canal Museum will host an event on Saturday, June 7 remembering the Revolutionary War hero, the Marquis de Lafayette, and his 1825 visit through Upstate New York.

BROCKPORT, N.Y. – The Erie Canal may be 200 years old this year, but it is still celebrating new additions! A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held for a new pedestrian bridge over the canal on ...

A. Trick question! Well, there were three versions of the canal built and a half-hearted and poorly planned and funded fourth. The first version of the Erie was 4 feet deep and 40 feet wide.