October 14, 2007 - Fifth Annual Mohawk Towpath Byway Duathlon
This is the time of year to spruce up the Byway.  Your organization can help.  Contact the
Byway about adopting a short section of road in your area.   This is a great way to help the Byway effort and in turn receive much needed recognition for your organization.
        If you have news about something going on in the byway please forward the information to our web master so it can be shared from here.
Byway Improvements
          The Byway has a grant to construct an information kiosk in Crescent Park near the intersection of Route 9 and Crescent Vischer Ferry Road.  The Town of Halfmoon is administering the project and supplying materials and labor.  The Shenendehowa Rotary Club is completing the landscaping as their Centennial Project.  These are the types of partnerships that make the Byway possible.  A group of Shenendehowa Rotary members work on the landscaping in the picture to the left.
Mohawk Towpath Scenic Byway
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        If you have news about something going on in the byway please forward the information to our web master so it can be shared from here.
On the Byway in 1824...
Try some cyber-fun on the Byway!
  The Mohawk Towpath Scenic Byway connects to several other byway efforts within the state.   To our west there's the Revolutionary Trail Scenic Byway; from Waterford north is the Lake to Locks Passage. Click on the map to the right to see how the Mohawk Towpath has been described as a hub of New York State's Byways.
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Byway Connections
Fare on an Erie Canal Packet Boat including board, lodging, and every expense was 4 cents a mile.  Way passengers paid 3 cents a mile, exclusive of board, &c., and 37 1/2 cents for dinner , 25 cents for breakfast, or supper, and 12 1/2 cents for lodging.  - from "Spafford's 1824 Guide for New York Travellers" Compiled by G. Martin Sleeman.
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Now A National Byway!
A foot bridge now crosses the power canal, a successor to the original 1825 Erie Canal to Falls View Park.  From the new park there is an unobstructed view of of Cohoes Falls, the second largest falls in New York State.  The park was constructed as part of Brookfield Renewable Power's relicensing agreement for the School Street Power Plant.  The National Park Service provided interpretive signs.  ADA complient trails, fishing access, a pull off large enough for two large buses and an amphi- theature are all a part of the new park.  No visit to the Mohawk Towpath Byway will be complete without a stop at Falls View Park on North Mohawk Street in Cohoes.


The Mohawk Towpath Byway is now one of America's Byways.
Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta made the announcement on September 22, 2005.  There are only 125 byways across the country that have this designation.  We join Lakes to Locks Passage and the Seaway Trail as the only New York State Byways that have national designation.   This will raise the priority of any application for funding and make us eligible for additional types of funding from the Federal Byways Program.
New Falls View Park in Cohoes
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Roadside Cleanup
This is the time of year to spruce up the Byway.  Your organization can help.  Contact the
Byway about adopting a short section of road in your area.   This is a great way to help the Byway effort and in turn receive much needed recognition for your organization.
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