Canalway Trail and Corridor
Other PTNY Canal Corridor ActivitiesParks & Trails New York carries out additional programs and activities to promote sound planning along the canal corridor, and to publicize and promote its recreational, historic, and natural resources.
This annual eight-day bicycle tour from Buffalo to Albany, New York was initiated in 1999 to help publicize the Canalway Trail and promote its completion. Riders enjoy great scenery, interesting history, and unparalleled cycling, while learning about the canal and enjoying canal historians' stories about the people, places and things that made life along the Erie Canal so unique in its day and so important to the history of New York State and the country. Join us!
Inn to Inn Touring Along the Erie Canalway Trail
Produced in partnership with NPS Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program, this brochure gives information on bicycle touring along the 85 miles of New York's Canalway Trail between Lockport and Palmyra in western New York. Order a copy from PTNY or download pdf.
Oswego Canal Community Council
In 2000, PTNY undertook a pilot project along the Oswego Canal to help communities work together to capitalize on their existing canal-related natural and historic resources and on the state and federal economic and tourism development programs both underway and proposed. PTNY organized a series of workshops, which resulted in the identification of "Opportunities to Forward the Vision." Project groups are now addressing these opportunities: Tourism, Regional Cooperation, Environmental quality, Access and Linkage, and Boater Services.
Promoting Protection of Natural Areas along the Canal Corridor
Parks & Trails New York is undertaking a project to research, call attention to, and point to the need to protect key natural areas along the canal. The results will be published and made available on our web site.