Overall Good minus the Patreon style clips.

Well photographed, well edited, well scripted and well narrated, with a fitting score to boot. Great job for an overview video, just right for the 80th anniversary!

Very informative

CVNP is such a resource for those of us here in northeast Ohio. If you enjoy kayaking, fishing, bird watching, biking, or hiking, you'll find plenty to do.

Why so butt hurt about NP status?

How many days needed?

It’s Absolutely Stunning. And I Love the the fact that it’s Very Rural and Sparse in People 👍🥰

Born and raised in McKean County, have traveled to a lot of places, but still love to come home to northwest Pennsylvania..

You forgot to talk about the Barge Canal and parts of the Erie Canal in Baldwinsville N.Y. The NYS Thruway goes along with the same route as the Erie Canal did. It's very good video though.

Well done

Wow Utica I could hop on my bike and be there in 10 mins but there really is quite an extension network of bike paths most of them have plaques along the paths that I dont really think twice bout 😅

Fantastic video and very insightful/informative and instrumental on anyone new to learning more about this historic battle-myself, included! Thank you for this!

Im here because of the movie, How the West was Won

Awesome video! I love camping in the forest when I can. Kayaked from Tidioute to Tionesta this past summer, and camped right on the river across from the lighthouse. Got to enjoy the fireworks from the Indian Festival!

How can I fly my own drone to take beautiful shots like you did?

Great research and presentation. Thanks for the time and energy in producing it. Extremely educational. A magnificent piece of history.

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Great tour. Thanks for sharing

Great journey. Congratulations and thanks for sharing this.

In many developing countries, such solutions are more effective than roads or even railroads. Emerging economies produce raw materials that are highly susceptible to transportation costs. Canalizing rivers would make these economies very competitive without indebting future generations.

Gracias por los distintos videos wue nos muestran estos lugares tan importantes

Most diverse national park 😂. You need to visit more parks sir if you think that. The restoration aspect of the park is very cool.

I grew up a mile away from Bushnell's Basin and attended school in Pittsford. The canal has always been a part of everyday life.

thank you, very interesting. (from UK)

I spent many of my weekends and holidays in the Allegheny National Forest. I knew a couple families that owned a multi family camp. It was just a 2 room shack with a bunch of home made bunk beds, but we were there for the outdoors. We saw a lot of wildlife there the coolest sighting I had was of a pretty good sized bobcat. It's a beautiful place for sure.

Nice video. Wish you showed the low bridge in Lockport that is part of the Eerie Canal song. All should visit and take a ride on the Eerie Canal.

I lived in Rochester for several years in the 90’s and biked and ran on the towpath. It was only sporadically developed at that point. Towns like Pittsfield and Fairport (my home) had paved park sections. Interestingly, the current path through Rochester was a result of the 1916 revamp for barges. The canal path was shifted south and Today, the I-480 freeway spur through downtown runs in the old canal bed.

grew up in Lockport, instantly recognized that old green metal lock in the beginning lol also, just fyi Medina is pronounced "Dye-Na" not "Dee-Na". great video!

Did I miss your discussion on the Chenago Canal that ran north from Binghamton in to Utica (downtown) into the ORIGINAL Erie / or the Black River Canal System that ran north from Rome ? Also the starting point of construction of the Original Erie in Rome where the first shovel full of dirt was removed ?

You start in Buffalo - I am disappointed that you did not talk more about Clinton’s Ditch and the difference between todays modern updated / larger BARGE Canal vs the old original Erie Canal “ditch” As it still goes thru Canastota NY

Thank you

We built similar canals in Ontario. I assure everybody that the Erie Canal was not for business although, like any infrastructure, it did add a lot of business. But that is not why it was built. Like in Ontario it was meant to avoid possible military conflict while sailing on Lake Ontario and the St-Lawrence river. These constructions were funded by governments as a result of the war of 1812.

It's pronounced "Os-Wee-Go.

Dude...that IS NOT the Erie Canal. It is the Barge Canal. The Erie Canal was abandoned in 1913 for its successor the Barge Canal. There are only a few pieces parts of the ORIGINAL REAL Erie Canal still intact but you certainly can not navigate on them. Why does NY and history buffs insist on telling the lies about it being the Erie Canal??? That's like telling the world the Titanic was a tugboat captained by Skipper Sam that sank in Lake Erie from a tidal wave.... Do some research so you know what you are talking about if you want to do historical videos!!! EVERYTHING you are showing here is of the Barge Canal!

Very well done! I learned many new things about the D-Day invasion!! Thanks for sharing.

I live in Bennington Vermont. Though its 40 or so miles from the canal, the battle of bennington is one of the most important, and less known battles of the revolutionary war. The bennington battle Monument was built to commemorate that battle, it is the second talles obelisk in the USA only slightly being beat by the Washington monument. However the bennington battle Monument sits up on a ridge of Mount Anthony. And on clear days from the observation room, you can see, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. If you like history, the monument and town at the base of the monument is worth seeing. The church and hotel was built in the 1600s.

Thanks for the video! I was born and raised in Cohoes and explored the old Erie canal and power canal ruins there. Biking up the Waterford chain of locks and the different types of maintenance facilities and parks along the way was a great local treat too.

Thanks for the tinnitus noise!

Forced out in '78. House burned. CVNP refugee. Now I live next door in Boston Twp.

i grew up in shaker and was a senior in high school....my best friend lived across the street from the bergers...very dark day.....

i went to the 80 year anniversary, but the american semetary was blocked by traffic, but i did go to the german one, and it does somthing to me, somthing emotional, just thinking what these victems of there time went true

Went here today, it’s awesome!!

The ignorance of some of the posters who are skeptical of the facts of the building of the canal is astonishing. It was a far greater engineering feat than the Panama Canal. It’s so easy to look up the facts morons or visit any of the visitors centers. There was three canals built. The original, enlarged and barge canal now renamed back to Erie Canal. Lock 18 is the most historically accurate left in the system. Actually most of the colonist combatants at the Battle of Oriskany were loyalists and Tryon County militia led by General Nicholas Herkimer who was mortally wounded at the battle fighting Indians and British soldiers led by General Barry St Leger.

Thank you.

I live in New York State I know what a canal means I didn’t know it existed in NY state thanks for the wonderful video knowledge is power. God bless this wonderful country USA and planet earth

25:11 Sko-HAIR-ee

18:24 The current Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York was built between 1839 and 1844 - long after the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and War of 1812. It replaced a log palisaded fort.

Hi. Sitting in my garden in Ireland on one of our few warm days, I watched your erie canal journey with pleasure. I feel so attached to it and its history since I researched it for my ebook And They Never Looked Back. The story of an Irish family who used that route to the Midwest payback when. Thank you for that pleasant cruise through history. Anne

The original design had no connection to Lake Ontario, which had these long-term effects: 1. There are few US ports on Lake Ontario; and 2. Canada was "forced" by competitive pressure to construct the Welland Canal (construction 1824-1829).

8:59 The Court Street dam in Rochester. The purpose of the dam is to actually hold back the Genesee River to raise it to the same level as the Erie Canal a few miles south where they cross eachother. This became necessary in 1919 when the canal was moved out of downtown Rochester. The video does not show the actual Erie Canal aqueduct down river from the dam that carried the canal over the Genesee River. It still stands, a testament to the engineers who built 18 original stone aqueducts by hand to bridge obstacles like rivers, streams and rocky terrain.