Leg 2 of 6Niagara to Bayside

Rochester → Syracuse

129 km · 5 postcards · designed for 14 days

Leg 2 of 6 on the Niagara to Bayside road. Out of Rochester along the Erie Canal towns, past the top of the Finger Lakes to Syracuse.

The road as your marker sees it. Dots below mark the postcards.

Along the way

km 15
Fairport
A canal village with a lift bridge that tilts as it rises. Cyclists on the towpath either side.
Photo: DanielPenfield, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
km 37
Palmyra
Four churches on one crossroads and the canal through the middle. Pure Erie Canal country.
Photo: runt35, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
km 75
Seneca Falls
Where the women's rights movement met in 1848, and the town that says it inspired Bedford Falls.
Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
km 95
Weedsport
A canal town on the Seneca River flats. Thirty kilometres of straight road to Syracuse.
Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
km 129
Syracuse
The Salt City at the head of Onondaga Lake, Clinton Square where the canal used to run. End of leg two.
Photo: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

Free. Log your steps once a day with a screenshot; everyone's marker moves down Syracuse road.