Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Upstate New York’s Erie Canal offers countless ways to explore its scenic beauty and history. Whether you prefer to walk, bike, ...

The Empire State Trail, including the Erie Canalway, offers 750 miles of recreation from NYC to Buffalo, and from Albany to the Canadian border.

The city of Utica and the town of Lyons were selected for the Empire State Trail Town program, the nonprofit organization Parks & Trails New York announced. Utica and Lyons will now join 11 other ...

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Residents and visitors gathered at Canalside to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the "Wedding of the Waters," marking the official opening of the Erie Canal and honoring its lasting ...

(The Conversation) — Two hundred years ago, the Erie Canal was often derided as a ‘folly.’ Yet the waterway went on to transform the American frontier. (The Conversation) — Two hundred years ago, on ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The Erie Canal, once mocked as “Clinton’s Ditch,” was built 200 years ago by Governor DeWitt Clinton. Now, his five times great grandson DeWitt Silber joined Governor Hochul for a ...

An Upstate New York man has collected a $1 million prize from the New York Lottery’s Million Dollar Raffle drawn in late ...

I recently read “The Mohawk” by Codman Hislop,  who taught American Civilization at Union College in Schenectady, New York.

A News10NBC photojournalist saw crews pulling a truck out of the Erie Canal Tuesday afternoon. The truck was by Winton Road in Brighton. According to New York State Canal Corporation spokesperson ...

Two hundred years ago, on Oct. 26, 1825, New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton boarded a canal boat by the shores of Lake Erie. Amid boisterous festivities, his vessel, the Seneca Chief, embarked from Buffalo, ...