Erie
Canal Bicyclist & Hiker Tour Guide
c. Harvey Botzman, 1994
Lockport's Triple Locks
Remember the song you learned in kindergarten?
Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal, low bridge
everybody down!
Cyclotour along the famous Erie Canal tow path, now called the Erie
Canalway Trail.
Duck!, as you ride under roadway bridges high above your helmet. Walk
on the original hand hewn stone locks. Take a barge trip on the working Erie Canal or just
bicycle along side this historic waterway on the National Park Service's Erie Canal
National Heritage Corridor Recreationway.
3rd
edition, Erie Canal Bicyclist & Hiker Tour Guide
will be published on April 23, 2008
To reserve your copy of the 3rd Edition: Send us an email with Erie
Canal Bike Book in the subject line, your name, address and telephone number in the
message area. We will not spam you. We will send you two (2) email and one post card when
the book is published. We were about to publish the 3rd edition in January when we
learned of several new significant changes to the Canalway Trail. Thus we have moved the
publication date slightly.
We do not have any copies of the 2nd ed., 2006-07 revision left. You
may be able to locate a copy at one of the stockists listed on the links page.
This is a 625 mi. (1005 km.) romp on the tow paths and parallel rural
roads of the Erie, Lake Champlain, Seneca/Cayuga, and Oswego Canals in NYS; the Chambly
Canal in Québec. Now in the 2nd Edition are the lower Hudson River Valley routes from the
Albany (Waterford) intersection of the Erie & Champlain Canals to New York City. From
Niagara Falls, NY to Montréal, QC or to New York City, NY! Or from New York City,
NY to Niagara Falls, NY or to Montréal, QC! Any way you cyclotour it is a scenic,
historic and wonderful trip. All these canals are still working canals not passive
historic sites!
The 2nd Edition includes the lower Hudson River Valley bicycle routes
from Albany to New York City's airports. Romp on either side of the Hudson River past the
U. S. Military Academy at West Point; visit the Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt homes in
Hyde Park; the Vanderbilt, Mills and other mansions of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
Side Trips: 80 mi. (130 km.) Top O’ the Finger Lakes following the
Seneca-Cayuga Canal; 70 mi. (110 km.) round trip to Lake Ontario via the Oswego Canal; and
156 mi. (251 km.) Vermont side of Lake Champlain. The New York side of Lake Champlain is
included in the main route to Montréal.
The Erie Canal tow path can be traversed on road bikes, mt. bikes,
tandems, recumbents. Heck, any bike.
Much of the Tow Path/NPS Recreationway is surfaced with smooth stone
dust. It is a level route on the tow path.
Have no fear cyclists! This Guide is complete. The
described route provides road cyclotourists with lightly trafficked parallel rural roads
to glide upon when the tow path has a dirt or rough gravel surface; or does not exist.
You'll easily return to the tow path when it has a paved or stone dust surface.
Scroll down or click to see a sample map from
the 1st edition of Erie Canal Bicyclist & Hiker Tour Guide.
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Links to NYS Canal System/Hudson River/Lake Champlain Web Sites related
to our Erie Canal Bicyclist & Hiker Tour Guide
Go to these tourism web sites
for great information
Don't forget to tell them,
Cyclotour Guide Books referred you to their web site!
Canal New
York: http://www.canalnewyork.org
Info
Buffalo: http://www.infobuffalo.com/bike.htm
Hudson River Valley
National Heritage Area: http://www.hudsonrivervalley.com
or
http://www.hudsonrivervalley.com/index.cfm?section_id=3&partner_link_category_id=2
New York State Canal
Corporation: http://www.nyscanals.gov/links/guide.html
New York Canal dot com: http://www.nycanal.com/recreation/nycanalrec.html
NYC biking info.:
Transportation Alternatives: http://www.transalt.org/info/bikeclubs.html
or http://www.transalt.org
New York City Midtown
Manhattan Lodging: http://www.midtownnewyorkcityhotels.com/travel_resources.html
Palmyra, NY: http://www.palmyrany.com/pal_tourism.htm
Info Rochester: http://inforochester.com/bike.htm
@Rochester, NY: http://roch.com/recreation/cyclotour-guide-books-936.html
Seneca County: http://www.fingerlakescentral.com/Pages/Links.cfm#SE_FirstHeading
State (NY) Council on
Waterways: http://www.scow.net/scow_links.htm
Sample Map from Erie Canal Bicyclist & Hiker Tour Guide, 1st
Ed.
Click here: for Finger Lakes
Bicyclist's Tour Guide
Go to Great Lakes to read
about Tour Guides describing circumnavigation routes around
Lakes Ontario, Erie, Michigan, & Huron.