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PRESS RELEASE: July 6, 2009
Contact: Teresa Mitchell, Great Lakes Seaway Trail, 315-646-1000
Follow America’s Byway to 50th Anniversary Celebration for Seaway
Massena, NY - July 9-12, 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of engineering feat that created the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The best way to reach the festivities at Massena, New York, is by traveling along the America’s Byway that shares part of its name with the Seaway. The 518-mile Great Lakes Seaway Trail parallels the St. Lawrence River, Lake Ontario, Niagara River and Lake Erie in New York and Pennsylvania.
A journey along the Great Lakes Seaway Trail offers an authentic American experience of the fresh waters and shoreline landscapes that has shaped much of America’s history. Fifty years ago Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower opened the powerful manmade waterway route into the North American interior.
In 2009, the Seaway’s 50th anniversary celebration includes author and historian programs, a parade, and concert. Learn more at www.greatlakes-seaway.com.
The Saint Lawrence Seaway has been called “the Gateway to North America” and the 120-mile east-to-west start of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail is its road-based parallel. The byway then continues another 398 miles to the Pennsylvania-Ohio border along Lake Erie.
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Locks Visitor Center, from which you can watch the world’s oceangoing vessels rise and lower the equivalent of a six-story building in the locks at Massena, NY, is one of many iconic destinations on the Great Lakes Seaway Trail. Other popular destinations include the 1000 Islands, small harbors along the Lake Ontario and Lake Erie shorelines, Niagara Falls, and the Seaway Trail Pennsylvania Erie Bayfront. Learn more online at www.seawaytrail.com or call 315-646-1000. #