Some folks dream of riding along canals in Europe, but we can do the same thing much closer to home. Two of my friends and I navigated a 41-foot packet boat for a round-trip voyage of 88 miles on the ...
A litter-picking boat designed to help keep Walsall's canal network clean is a "fantastic addition", the borough's mayor has said. The custom-built Sister Dora craft will be used by volunteers to ...
Georgetown Heritage’s Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal boat tours will return for a second season sooner than initially expected. The tours along the Georgetown waterway will resume May 5, Georgetown ...
A scenic fall view of the Erie Canal in Pittsford, New York. “Slow travel” is trending, and from my experience, there’s nothing slower—or more relaxing—than canal cruising. And it's not just because ...
FAIRPORT, N.Y. – The Erie Canal, once a vital commercial waterway, has transformed into a hub for outdoor recreation. News10NBC’s Brett Davidsen is familiar with the trails and even rode his bike ...
Over the coming weeks and months, Paul Miles will be following in the wake of narrowboating pioneer L.T.C. Rolt, retracing a journey he made – and wrote about – more than 80 years ago and reflecting ...
In April 1835, an elegant new vessel entered the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal at Dam No. 5 and descended about six miles to the boat basin at Williamsport, Md. It was the Lady Washington, a “handsomely ...
Oct. 15—The full-sized replica of the Erie Canal boat "Seneca Chief" is wintering in Lockport's Flight of Five Locks before it leaves again for Buffalo in May. The Buffalo Maritime Center built the ...
Restoration of the C&O Canal through Georgetown, a project being funded by the National Park Service, gets underway early next year, dry-docking the guided tour boat until 2025. But, tours will still ...
More people are calling England’s canals — and the narrow boats used to navigate them — home as remote work options in the pandemic’s wake make a mobile lifestyle more possible. By Megan Specia LITTLE ...
The Georgetown canal now has water flowing through it, and soon you will be able to ride in a brand new boat on it. “We hope to get as many visitors to travel the roughly one-mile trip up on the canal ...