Leg 3 of 6Niagara to Bayside
Syracuse → Little Falls
109 km · 5 postcards · designed for 14 days
Leg 3 of 6 on the Niagara to Bayside road. Through the Oneida plain to Utica and into the narrowing Mohawk Valley.
Along the way
km 23
Chittenango
L. Frank Baum's birthplace. The sidewalks are painted yellow brick.
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km 33
Canastota
Home of the International Boxing Hall of Fame and the best onion fields in the state.
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km 77
Utica
The Stanley Theatre, Utica greens, and the brewery that never left. Halfway to Albany.
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km 99
Herkimer
Where the Mohawk squeezes between the hills. Diamond diggers in the fields north of town.
Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
km 109
Little Falls
Lock 17, the tallest on the Erie Canal, drops boats twelve metres through the gorge. End of leg three.
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