Going Places, Near & Far
"Going Places, Near & Far" is a travel series by Karen Rubin featured on the Long Island online news source, TheIslandNow.com. In 2015 she featured several articles based on her experience cycling the 400-mile trek from Buffalo to Albany along the Erie Canalway Trail. Photo credits: Karen Rubin
Lockport, a Town Birthed by the Erie Canal
The Erie Canal was the marvel of its age when the 353-mile "Clinton's Folly" opened in 1825 just eight years after construction began and on budget of $7.7 million. At long last, the Atlantic Ocean was linked to the interior of the Continent by water, by way of the Hudson River.
Syracuse's Erie Canal Museum highlights Day 5 of bike tour
The 600 cyclists who have joined the 17th Annual Cycle the Erie tour, organized by Parks & Trails NY in July, get to visit several fascinating museums in small canal towns which each contribute to our understanding of the significance of the Erie Canal as a technological marvel and a force propelling the United States as a global industrial power.
Diamond Mining, Robotics, Erie Canal Cruises at Herkimer KOA Camping Resort
Here I am, swinging a small sledgehammer, quarrying for diamonds – Herkimer Diamonds, that is, extraordinary quartz crystal nuggets that emerge (even pop right out) of their rocky prison with 18 facets, as if they had been cut by a jeweler.
Journey by Boat and Bike Along the Erie Canal
I am at the helm of a 41-foot canal boat, a boat so enchanting and lovely, it turns heads and evokes waves, smiles, and snapped photos as it chugs pleasantly along at a top speed of 6 mph.
Seneca Falls to Syracuse
We are in the Finger Lakes, and off the Erie Canal trail which is not restored in this area and we ride on roads through the beautiful rolling countryside (and hilly). In fact, this, the 17th Annual Cycle the Erie bike tour is organized by Parks & Trails NY, a nonprofit dedicated to raising funds and awareness of the need to complete the trail.
National Women's Hall of Fame
Seneca Falls is regarded as the birthplace of the Women's Rights Movement for having held the first Women's Rights Convention here in July 1848, but after visiting the Women's Rights National Historical Park, I felt I learned more about the Women's Movement from the women themselves in the Women's National Hall of Fame.
Remington Arms Museum Makes Historic Links to Current Issues
It is Day 6 of our eight-day, 400-mile bike tour from Buffalo to Albany following the Erie Canal trail except where it no longer exists. This is the 17th annual Cycle the Erie bike tour offered by Parks & Trails NY, which uses it as its major fundraiser to raise funds as well as awareness to finish the trail, presently about 70 percent complete. Once finished, the Erie Canalway would become one of the longest multi-purpose trails in the country.
Cycle the Erie 400 Mile Biketour Reaches Seneca Falls
Seneca Falls is the birthplace of the Women's Rights movement and for the longest time, had been a sort of mecca in my mind.
Revolutionary War Era Comes to Life
The Cycle the Erie bike tour, 400 miles from Buffalo to Albany organized annually through Parks & Trails NY, takes us back to the very beginning of the United States, to its colonial days and its emergence as an independent nation. It is 400 miles and 400 years of history.