ALBANY, N.Y. — With the 202nd navigation season now in the books, the Canal Corporation and the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor are already looking toward 2027. Applications are open through November 20, 2026 for a competitive grant program that will award $229,757 to tourism projects and events along the New York State Canal System,…
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Just days before the Erie Canal closed to boats for the winter, the towpath got its turn. On Tuesday, October 6, the New York State Canal Corporation reopened a four-mile stretch of the Erie Canalway Trail in Rochester, between Lyell Avenue and Mount Hope Avenue, following a $3.9 million rehabilitation. The project,…
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Erie Canal’s 202nd navigation season is ending the way it spent most of its life: with people on top of the water and others working beneath it. On Saturday and Sunday, October 10 and 11, roughly 200 rowing boats crossed the canal channel in Rochester during a Genesee Rowing Club regatta….
ALBANY, N.Y. — The Erie Canal’s 202nd navigation season is down to its final nine days. The New York State Canal Corporation announced on October 2 that the 524-mile canal system will close to navigation at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 14, 2026, and that every recreational vessel must be out of the system by…
SYRACUSE — The Erie Canal Museum closed the book this past weekend on Canal as Collaborator: Works by Sarah Cameron Sunde and Kari Varner, a five-month exhibition that asked visitors to see the 200-year-old waterway not merely as infrastructure, but as a living partner in New York’s history. Housed in the museum’s landmark 1850s weighlock…
For three days this past weekend, the front door of the Erie Canal belonged to the tugboats. The 2026 Waterford Tugboat Roundup ran Friday, September 11 through Sunday, September 13 along a quarter mile of canal frontage at Lock E-2 Park in Waterford, the Saratoga County village where the Hudson and Mohawk rivers meet and…
On Thursday, September 10, the Erie Canal quietly loses three hours of daylight operation. That is the last date of the 2026 season’s extended lock and lift-bridge hours, and after it, the entire 524-mile New York State Canal System settles into its standard schedule of 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily for the remainder of…
From a full trail closure in Rochester to a five-month rebuild at the Utica Harbor Lock and an October culvert replacement outside Rome, the Canal Corporation has turned the shoulder season into its busiest construction push in years — the visible edge of a $50 million capital program.
A small rope board in Syracuse’s 1850 Weighlock Building borrows its design from the Seneca Chief replica — and marks the start of a broader effort to tell the other 192 years of Erie Canal history.
ALBANY, N.Y. — For more than a century it was a rumor under a parking lot. This month it became a fact. Archaeologists working in the shadow of Albany’s Central Warehouse have uncovered the southeast end of the original Erie Canal’s Lock One — and confirmed that the structure where the Erie Canal met the…