A strange spectacle continues to drift along the Erie Canal this week. Noelle Evans with WXXI News and the New York Public News Network joined the Flotsam River Circus as they puttered along the ...

Explore the 300-mile route through Upstate New York by foot, bike, boat or car with attractions just steps from the water.

The 363-mile-long Erie Canal, which linked farmlands and merchants in remote areas in and around the Great Lakes region with lucrative markets of the Eastern Seaboard, was completed on Oct. 26, 1825 — ...

Rome welcomes the replica "Seneca Chief,"Oct. 8, as the vessel traces the 500-mile maiden voyage of the original mini-barge, carrying NY Gov. Clinton to mark the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825. An ...

FAIRPORT, N.Y. – The Erie Canal is celebrating its 200th anniversary, and News10NBC is highlighting its significance as a gateway for boaters across the country. Jennifer Lewke reported from Fairport ...

Democrat and Chronicle photographer Tina MacIntyre-Yee spent the nice weather months of 2025 on a grand tour along the Erie Canal, on a journey to experience the rhythms and sights of this manmade ...

In 1995, Tammee Poinan Grimes’s parents purchased a 60-foot-long tour boat to use for sightseeing cruises along the Erie Canal. The expense of shipping the boat from San Francisco to Upstate New York ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The Buffalo Maritime Center is recreating the historic maiden voyage of the Seneca Chief, the first boat to travel the entire Erie Canal. The replica of the Seneca Chief is traveling ...