page_title: Erie Canal
section_title: Parks and museums
hierarchical_section_title: Erie Canal / Old Erie Canal / Parks and museums
caption_attribution_description: English: Old Erie Canal State Historic Park, at Cedar Bay Park, DeWitt, NY.
context_page_description: The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System. It originally ran 363 miles from the Hudson River in Albany to Lake Erie in Buffalo. It was built to create a navigable water route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. It was completed in 1825 and was the second longest canal in the world, and it greatly enhanced the development and economy of New York, New York City, and the United States.
  The canal was first proposed in the 1780s, then re-proposed in 1807. A survey was authorized, funded, and executed in 1808. Proponents of the project gradually wore down opponents; its construction began in 1817, and it opened on October 26, 1825. The canal has 34 numbered locks starting with Black Rock Lock and ending downstream with the Troy Federal Lock. Both are owned by the federal government. It has an elevation difference of about 565 feet.
  At the time, bulk goods were limited to pack animals with a 250-pound maximum and there were no railways, so water was the most cost-effective way to ship bulk goods.
context_section_description: Parks and museums related to the old Erie Canal include (listed from East to West):
  Day Peckinpaugh ship; restoration and conversion to a floating museum was planned for completion in 2012 by the New York State Museum
  Watervliet Side Cut Locks, located at Watervliet and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971
  Enlarged Erie Canal Historic District (Discontiguous), a national historic district located at Cohoes, New York listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004
  Cohoes Falls Park, 231 N. Mohawk St., Cohoes, New York, offers, looking away from the river, a dramatic view of abandoned and dry Erie Canal lock 18, high above.
  Enlarged Double Lock No. 23, Old Erie Canal, Rotterdam
  Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site at Fort Hunter
  Old Erie Canal State Historic Park, 36-mile linear park from Rome to DeWitt
  Erie Canal Village, near Rome
  Canastota Canal Town Museum, Canastota
  Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum, near Chittenango
  Erie Canal Museum in downtown Syracuse
  Camillus Erie Canal Park in Camillus
  Jordan Canal Park in Jordan, town of Elbridge
  Enlarged Double Lock No. 33 Old Erie Canal, St. Johnsville
  Erie Canal Lock 52 Complex, a national historic district located at Port Byron and Mentz in Cayuga County; listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998
  Seneca River Crossing Canals Historic District, a national historic district located at Montezuma and Tyre in Cayuga County; listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005
  Centerport Aqueduct Park near Weedsport; listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000
  Lock Berlin Park near Clyde
  Macedon Aqueduct Park near Palmyra
  Old Erie Canal Lock 60 Park in Macedon
  Perinton Park in Perinton near Fairport
  Genesee Valley Park in the city of Rochester
  Spencerport Depot & Canal Museum, Spencerport
  Niagara Escarpment "Flight of Five" locks at Lockport
  Erie Canal Discovery Center, 24 Church Street, Lockport (Locks 34 and 35)
  Canalside Buffalo at the Canal's "Western Terminus"
caption: Old Erie Canal State Historic Park, DeWitt, New York
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