Lockport Locks & Buffalo Cruisin

Today we will travel to Lockport, NY. Lockport is both a city and the town that surrounds it in Niagara County, New York.

in the main building that was originally built in the 1840's. The building has been renovated to resemble an 1800's Canal town. With over 100 windows overlooking the historic Erie Canal. The original stone walls are the remains of what was once Niagara Preserving Company, one of the first companies to effectively preserve food in metal contaniers. The property was also at one time Western Block Company, a business that manufactured block and tackle for pulleys used on canal boats. Many of those artifacts can still be found throughout the spacious building.

Your fun and informative cruise will sail past five of the original 1800s locks. Three milllion gallons of water will fill the locks between Locks 34 & 35, the only double set on the Erie Canal, and raise the boat 50 feet. You'll pass under Lockport's "Big Bridge" (the widest bridge in the U.S at 399 feet wide), through the deep rock cut and under lift bridges.

You will hear the story of the Erie Canal, Buffalo's history as the largest grain port in the world, and experience the nation's largest collection of standing grain elevators from just a few feet away. You will travel along the waterway that made buffalo on e of the biggest and richest cities in the world while you gaze up at the magnificent structures that drove it's growth.