Explorer's Guide Erie Canal: A Great Destination: Exploring New York's Great Canals (Explorer's Great Destinations)

The Erie Canal: Great Destinations is the first comprehensive travel guide to New York State Canals and the communities and attractions found along them.

Each chapter covers one canal, providing historical background as well as information on wineries, canal museums, restaurants, lodging, canal cruises and bike paths in all the major cities, many of the small towns and villages, and the two biggest Finger Lakes. The guide offers separate sections on Buffalo, Albany, Syracuse, Utica, and Rochester and their outlying areas, as well as a chapter on Niagara Falls. With coverage of three smaller canals in the region (the Oswego, Champlain, and Cayuga-Seneca) this is undoubtedly the most extensive guide to the canalways of the state. 100 black-and-white photographs and maps

Deborah Williams is an award-winning travel writer. This is her fourth travel book on New York State, she was the former editor at the Buffalo Courier Express, and she has contributed articles to a wide range of magazines, newspapers and websites in the U.S. and Canada. She attended Mount Holyoke College, is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers (who awarded her the Lowell Thomas Gold Award), and makes her home in Holland, New York.