Leg 4 of 6Niagara to Bayside

Little Falls → Albany

110 km · 6 postcards · designed for 14 days

Leg 4 of 6 on the Niagara to Bayside road. Down the Mohawk past the old canal towns to Schenectady and the capital.

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

Along the way

km 15
St. Johnsville
A mill village on the Mohawk. The river, the canal, the railway and the road all fit in one valley here.
Photo: Schzmo, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
km 29
Canajoharie
Beech-Nut's company town, with a pothole in the creek that gave it its Mohawk name.
Photo: Fwgoebel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
km 46
Fonda
The county seat named for the family that gave Hollywood Henry. Horse country to the south.
Photo: Adam Moss, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
km 61
Amsterdam
The carpet-mill city on the north bank. Kirk Douglas grew up here.
Photo: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
km 86
Schenectady
Where Edison built General Electric and the Stockade district still has its Dutch houses.
Photo: UpstateNYer, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
km 110
Albany
The Empire State Plaza's marble towers over the Hudson. End of leg four, and the turn south.
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