Cuyahoga Valley, Ohio's only National Park, sits between Cleveland and Akron it offers a verdant oasis, quaint villages and ...

The Woodbury Wildlife Area provides nearly 20,000 acres of public land for outdoor recreation, making it one of Ohio’s largest wildlife areas. Hunters, anglers, birdwatchers, and hikers find ample ...

This charming town in east-central Ohio sits at the confluence of the Tuscarawas and Walhonding rivers, which join to form the Muskingum River – a geographical detail that might sound boring until you ...

The opening of the Erie Canal was touted as an incredible achievement of human ingenuity, a 363-mile engineering marvel built 200 years ago. When Gov. DeWitt Clinton completed his journey from Buffalo ...

There’s a lot of time to ponder the past and future of the Erie Canal as the Seneca Chief crawls its way through the channels and locks of the 200-year-old marvel. That’s on purpose, said Brian ...

GLENVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Two centuries after New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton opened the Erie Canal with a triumphant boat trip from Buffalo to New York City, a brightly painted replica of the vessel is ...

When the original Erie Canal was built between 1817 and 1825, it was both the longest artificial waterway in North America and its most significant public works project. Since no one had ever ...

In the mid-1820s, Ohio Gov. Ethan Allen Brown praised America's canals "as veins and arteries to the body politic" and commissioned two canals of his own: one to link the Ohio River to the Erie Canal, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) If you visit ...