Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor
Industrial Heritage · Syracuse, New York
The 363-mile canal that opened in 1825 and connected the Hudson to Lake Erie, cutting the cost of moving a ton of freight from the Great Lakes to New York from roughly a hundred dollars to ten and making New York City the dominant American port. It was dismissed as Clinton's Ditch before it was built and paid for itself within a decade; the corridor now protects the canal, its successor the Erie Canal, and the towns that exist because of it.
318 Erie Boulevard East, Syracuse, New York, 13202, United States
⚠ A 363-MILE CORRIDOR, NOT A SINGLE SITE. THE CANALWAY TRAIL IS FREE AND OPEN YEAR ROUND. THE NAVIGATION AND THE LOCKS OPERATE ROUGHLY MAY TO OCTOBER and close for the winter, taking boat hire and most canal-town seasonal attractions with them. This pin is the ERIE CANAL MUSEUM in Syracuse — the last surviving weighlock building in the United States — which keeps its own hours on a suggested donation. ⚠ NOT VERIFIED FOR THIS FILE.
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