Things to Do Within a Few Hours of Baldwinsville, NY




Visit the following 11 Wonders of the Erie Canalway Trail


  1. “Flight of Five”: The c. 1862 “staircase” locks are seen alongside two deep, consecutive modern locks (34 & 35), Lockport.
  2. 1850 Syracuse Weighlock Building, last remaining structure of its kind (houses Erie Canal Museum).
  3. Lift Lock 17, "One of the highest lift locks in the world," Little Falls.
  4. Nine Mile Creek Aqueduct, only restored, navigable aqueduct in New York, Camillus.
  5. Lift Bridges (there are 15, but the Fairport Lift Bridge, an irregular decagon, is the contender).
  6. Movable Dams (there are eight - not sure which one should be a contender).
  7. Richmond Aqueduct, Montezuma Heritage Park (though on the active Erie Canal, a slight detour is needed from the Canalway Trail to see it). 
  8. Drydocks (the active Lyons Drydock or the historic dry dock complex in Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum).
  9. "Upside-Down Bridge", Lockport. A railroad bridge with the truss upside-down.
  10. Tiny Locktender’s House, Jordan.
  11. Mural Mania: "longest mural trail in the world of over 85 miles along the Erie Canal.”

Also worth a road trip
  1. Baldwinsville, NY - Rent a Kayak
  2. Seneca Falls, NY, Women's Rights National Historical Park (Wesleyan Chapel building where the women's rights movement began) and It's a Wonderful Life Museum.
  3. Oswego, NY -Fort Ontario State Historic Site (closed for winter, but still interesting to walk around): 1 East Fourth Street, Oswego, https://parks.ny.gov/historic-sites/fortontario/details.aspxH Lee White Maritime Museum  (hours 1-5pm) on Lake Ontario, 1 West First Street, Oswego NY, 13126, (315) 342-0480
  4. https://hlwmm.org/
  5. Skaneateles (cute village)
  6. Fair Haven, NY
  7. Auburn, NY (Seward House)
  8. Cazenovia, NY (cute village)
  9. Niagara Falls, NY
  10. Alexandria Bay, NY (St. Lawrence Seaway)
  11. Sackets Harbor, NY
  12. Ithaca, NY (Ithaca is "gorges"), Cornell campus, the commons and Taughannock Falls, Ithaca Falls
  13. Seneca Lake  wine trail, NY
  14. Cayuga Lake Wine Trail, NY
  15. Letchworth State Park (Grand Canyon of the East), NY
  16. Jamestown, NY (I love Lucy Museum)
  17. Watkins Glen, NY
  18. Saratoga Springs, NY
  19. Lake George, NY
  20. Ausable Chasm, NY
  21. Cooperstown, NY

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