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With summer in the home stretch and hot weather on the horizon, now is the time to head to the canals. Enjoy boat tours, paddling, cycling, and events, or pair a visit to a canal-related museum or historic site with a meal at a local restaurant. It's easy to plan an afternoon or an entire vacation along the canals! | |
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Enter the Erie Canalway Photo Contest
Deadline for Entries: 8/30/24
We look forward to seeing your view of the places and activities you love along the canals for this year’s photo contest. Images may be submitted in four contest categories: On the Water, Along the Trail, Canal Celebrations & Communities, and Classic Canal. Judges will select first, second, and third place winning images in each category, as well as 12 honorable mentions. Winners will be featured in the special bicentennial edition of the 2025 Erie Canalway Calendar. Please submit images in horizontal format.
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2023 Photo Contest winning image by Dan Judd | |
Erie Canal Amenities Study Update
Work is well underway on our Amenities Study with significant progress made this summer to evaluate existing conditions and develop long-term plans for recreational amenities along the Erie Canal and Erie Canalway Trail. The NYS Canal Corporation and NYS DEC's Mohawk River Watershed Basin Program are providing technical and funding support and Colliers Engineering & Design is conducting the assessment. Between May and July, we facilitated stakeholder meetings with cycling, boating, paddling, and rowing user groups; and partners representing tourism, accessibility, businesses, and municipalities. Field work, which began in June, is nearly done. The study will be completed in early 2025.
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Canal promenade in Waterford | |
Join the Canalway Challenge
Canalway Challenge participants are racking up miles, with 270,800 miles reported from finishers so far this year. You can still get in on the action by signing up, setting your personal mileage goal, and getting out on the water or Canalway Trail.
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"Unbelievable trip. I loved the hospitality of the small towns along the Erie Canal. I loved how the towns had made it possible to camp. The locks were gorgeous. It was amazing to not have to worry really about cars when biking. New York did an amazing job here."
- Stephen P., Miami Beach, FL, 360-Mile End-to-Ender
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Choose 1st Mile, 15, 30, 90, 180, or 360 miles as your goal. You can walk, run, cycle, paddle, or roll to achieve it. | |
Online Bicentennial Preview,
August 13, 11am
The Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor and the NYS Canal Corporation are hosting an online Bicentennial Preview to share the latest updates on a variety of commemorations and activities planned for 2025. We’ll also preview a bicentennial promotional video that will become part of the Erie Canal Bicentennial Marketing Toolkit. Please sign up to attend.
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Replica 1825 canal boat Seneca Chief at Canalside in Buffalo. | |
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Heads up for grants!
Applications for NYS Canal System Tourism Infrastructure and Event Grants open on October 7, 2024. The program provides funding to support tourism infrastructure and amenity improvements, and events. Grant funding is open to counties, municipalities, units of local government, not-for-profit organizations and federally recognized Native American tribes. Grants are provided by the NYS Canal Corporation and the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor.
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Paddle the Canals:
Mohawk River Expedition
Friday-Sunday, September 13 - 15, 2024
We have a few spots open for this multiday guided paddling trip from Canajoharie to Schenectady. Paddle through history on the scenic Mohawk River and celebrate 200 years of the Erie Canal! LEARN MORE >
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37th Annual Little Falls Canal Celebration
August 7 – 11 >> Multiple Locations, City of Little Falls
Canalside Walking Tours
August 8, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20 >> Canalside, Buffalo
Beers, Bikes & Barges
August 8 >> Lock 32 Bar and Grill, Lockport
August 15 >> Swiftwater Brewing Company, Rochester
August 22 >> Erie Canal Museum, Syracuse
August 29 >> Troy
Sylvan Beach Canal Fest
August 9 – 11 >> Multiple Locations, Sylvan Beach
18th Annual Cardboard Boat Races: Great Explorations
August 10 >> Fort Hardy Park, Schuylerville
Carnegie Art Spree Festival
August 17 & 18 >> Webster/Canal Streets, Tonawanda & North Tonawanda
Color Wayne-- An accessible, 1st Mile event
August 31 >> T. Spencer Knight Park, Newark
Music in the Park
THURSDAYS THROUGH AUG 29 >> PEOPLE’S PARK, SENECA FALLS
On the Canals
MULTIPLE DATES AND LOCATIONS
The NYS Canal Corporation offers FREE, accessible and welcoming recreational excursions.
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Your gift today will have an immediate impact in our work to create an ever more vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable future along New York's extraordinary canals.
The Erie Canalway Heritage Fund is the 501(c)3 nonprofit partner of the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor working to elevate projects and programs across our 500 miles of connected waterways and trails.
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www.eriecanalway.org
Phone: (518) 237-7000
NOTE: We recently changed to a new computer network and our email addresses are now first_last@eriecanalway.org. Please update your contact lists to ensure that we stay connected.
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