X

Seaway’s Eisenhower Lock in Massena draws 56,000 visitors this year

Posted 10/23/14

MASSENA – Approximately 56,000 people visited Eisenhower Lock at St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation’s Visitors’ Center this year, officials say. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Center …

This item is available in full to subscribers.

Please log in to continue

Log in

Seaway’s Eisenhower Lock in Massena draws 56,000 visitors this year

Posted

MASSENA – Approximately 56,000 people visited Eisenhower Lock at St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation’s Visitors’ Center this year, officials say.

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Center continues to be a huge tourist attraction for shipwatchers from all over the country and the world. Thousands of visitors entered the center or stopped by the overlook to view ships from dozens of nations traversing the U.S.-Canadian inland waterway linking North America’s heartland ports as distant as Duluth, Minnesota and Thunder Bay, Ontario with overseas markets.

Here are a few of the comments left in their visitor log:

• From Denver, CO: “We traveled all the way from Colorado just to see this and we were not let down.”

• From Switzerland: “Wow! And very helpful people.”

• From Dewitt, IA: “Much bigger than the locks on the Mississippi.”

• From Montreal, QC: “The most amazing lock ever. That was so cool.”

• From Vermont: “Really great as always. Coming since 1959.”

The Eisenhower Lock and Visitors’ Center was also featured on The Getaway Guy that ran on New York Times Warner Cable for a summer segment.

To check out the video coverage, go to: http://rochester.twcnews.com/content/ lifestyles/the_getaway_guy/753377/ eisenhower-lock-getaway/