Great Lakes Seaway Trail

PRESS RELEASE: August 21, 2010
Contact: Seaway Trail, Inc. President & CEO Teresa Mitchell, Seaway Trail, Inc. Project Manager Kurt Schumacher, 315-646-1000

New Great Lakes Seaway Trail GeoCoins Celebrate Water and History

The Great Lakes Seaway Trail GeoTrail Coins feature the new Great Lakes Seaway Trail logo on one side and a scene from each of five regions on the other side.

Great Lakes Seaway Trail, NY and PA – The new Great Lakes Seaway Trail GeoTrail Coins are here! The limited edition antique metal-finish square tokens celebrate the waters and history of the 518-mile-long America’s Byway that is host to a new 75-cache adventure for those who enjoy exploring by latitude and longitude. The series of five coins features the Flagship Niagara, Niagara Falls and the Maid of the Mist tour boat, Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse, historic Fort Ontario, and a ship on the St. Lawrence River.

Avid geocachers who have already located at least 10 caches in any of the byway’s five regions (Lake Erie, Buffalo/Niagara Falls, Rochester/Central Lake Ontario, Eastern Lake Ontario, and 1000 Islands/St. Lawrence River) can have their logbooks validated to receive the coin for that region.

All five Great Lakes Seaway Trail GeoCoins are available at the Great Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center in Sackets Harbor, NY. Great Lakes Seaway Trail GeoTrail logbook pickup and validation sites are:

Lake Erie Region — Flagship Niagara GeoCoin
• Tom Ridge Environmental Center, 301 Peninsula Drive, Suite 1, Erie, PA 16505

Buffalo/Niagara Falls Region — Niagara Falls and Maid of the Mist GeoCoin
• Niagara USA Official Visitor Center, 10 Rainbow Blvd., Niagara Falls, NY 14303

Rochester/Central Lake Ontario Region — Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse GeoCoin
• VisitRochester, 45 East Avenue, Suite 400, Rochester, NY 14604
• Wayne County Tourism Office, 9 Pearl Street, Suite 3, Lyons, NY 14489

Eastern Lake Ontario Region — Historic Fort Ontario GeoCoin
• Cayuga County Office of Tourism, 131 Genesee Street, Auburn, NY 13021
• Oswego County Tourism, 3rd Floor, County Office Building, 46 E. Bridge St., Oswego, NY 13126
• Screwy Louie’s Sport Shop, 596 Main St., Fair Haven, NY 13064

Thousand Islands/St. Lawrence River Region — St. Lawrence River Ship GeoCoin
• Seaway Trail Discovery Center, Ray & West Main Streets, Sackets Harbor, NY 13685
• St. Lawrence County Chamber, 101 Main St., Canton, NY 13617
• 1000 Islands International Tourism Council, 3373 Collins Landing, Alexandria Bay, NY 13607.

The Great Lakes Seaway Trail GeoTrail sponsors include VisitErie, the Niagara Tourism and Convention Corporation, VisitRochester, Wayne County Tourism, the Fair Haven Area Chamber of Commerce, the Cayuga County Office of Tourism, Oswego County Tourism, the 1000 Islands International Tourism Council, the St. Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce, and the Great Lakes Seaway Trail.

Great Lakes Seaway Trail President and CEO Teresa Mitchell says, “This new GeoTrail and our new collector coins are generating a geocaching rush on New York and Pennsylvania’s freshwater America’s Byway. This ‘get outdoors on the Great Lakes Seaway Trail’ initiative is ideal for making healthy living more available, accessible and affordable.”

Learn more at www.seawaytrail.com/geotrail. #