Two centuries after New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton opened the Erie Canal with a triumphant boat trip from Buffalo to New York ...

The Seneca Chief, a replica of the first boat to travel the length of the Erie Canal, arrived in New York City on Sunday, ...

The Seneca Chief moves at 19th-century speed — it took about five hours to travel the roughly 18 miles between Amsterdam and ...

The Erie Canal, once mocked as “Clinton’s Ditch,” was built 200 years ago by Governor DeWitt Clinton. Now, his five times ...

Brave World Media/Visit Rochester The Cayuga boat by Erie Canal Adventures sailing through Pittsford. My adventure began with an hour-long orientation session, complete with videos explaining the do’s ...

Initially, the canal was just 4 feet deep and 40 feet wide, but it cut through fields and forests, cliffs and swamps, and ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — When the replica Erie Canal boat Seneca Chief navigates into the Rondout Creek as part of a statewide tour commemorating the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Erie Canal and ...

Before the Erie canal was completed in 1825, it could take around three weeks to ship perishable goods between New York and ...

Though the movement began at the turn of the century, it flourished in the hinterlands along the Erie Canal, which became ...

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

More than any other historical event, the opening of the Erie Canal, on Oct. 26, 1825, set Chicago on the path to becoming ...

“Slow travel” is trending, and from my experience, there’s nothing slower—or more relaxing—than canal cruising. And it's not just because the average speed is 6 mph. Unlike river cruises, which hop in ...