page_title: Niagara River
section_title: Parks
hierarchical_section_title: Niagara River / Parks
caption_attribution_description: English: Niagara River at the Niagara Glen. It was taken downstream from Niagara Falls on the Canadian side of the river in the Niagara Glen. The photograph was shot on a 35mm camera and scanned to JPG.
context_page_description: The Niagara River is a river that flows north from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. It forms part of the border between the province of Ontario in Canada and the state of New York in the United States. There are differing theories as to the origin of the river's name. According to Iroquoian scholar Bruce Trigger, Niagara is derived from the name given to a branch of the locally residing native Neutral Confederacy, who are described as being called the Niagagarega people on several late-17th-century French maps of the area. According to George R. Stewart, it comes from the name of an Iroquois town called Ongniaahra, meaning "point of land cut in two".
  The river, which is occasionally described as a strait, is about 58 kilometres long and includes Niagara Falls in its course. The falls have moved approximately 11 kilometres upstream from the Niagara Escarpment in the last 12,000 years, resulting in a gorge below the falls. Today, the diversion of the river for electrical generation has significantly reduced the rate of erosion. The total drop in elevation along the river is 99 metres.
context_section_description: The following parks are located along the Niagara River:
  A Niagara River Greenway Plan is in progress in the United States.
caption: Niagara Glen features many rapids downstream of Niagara Falls
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