Erie Canal

The New York Lottery is celebrating the Erie Canal’s 200th anniversary with a new Million Dollar Raffle that offers the best odds of winning $1 million among all available Lottery games. The canal-themed raffle tickets ... more

The holiday weekend kicks off with free music and activities all day long in Seneca Falls culminating with a drone show and concert by the Albany Symphony Orchestra on July 4th. Enjoy music, art, artisan ... more

Director of the NYS Canal Corporation, Brian Stratton and Joell Murney-Karsten, Community Relations Manager for New York State Canal Corporation join the show to discuss this summer’s bicentennial celebration of the Erie Canal which connected ... more

On Wednesday the environmental review and management plan was released that showed the New York State Canal Corp. would not complete a total tree removal along the Erie Canal. For five years there has been ... more

Amanda Holchuck is enjoying a cruise along the Erie Canal. She’s seeing a side of the Finger Lakes she hasn’t before. "Well it’s the first time I’ve ever seen a heron, a blue heron," Holchuck ... more

A group called Stop the Canal Clear-Cut met Sunday in Pittsford to have a rally in opposition to plans by the Canal Corporation to cut down trees along the Erie Canal. The plan began four ... more

The 23rd annual Cycle the Erie Canal tour held by the statewide nonprofit Parks & Trails New York has cyclists from 34 different states crossing the state along the canal. The cyclists stopped in Seneca ... more

Canals played a very important part in the rapid and huge economic development of the Finger Lakes in the decades before the Civil War. The Erie Canal was clearly the most important of the canals ... more