{"id":191318,"date":"2026-05-13T15:31:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/191318\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:31:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:31:34","slug":"erie-canalway-opens-may-15-hundreds-of-events-across-new-york-throughout-season-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/191318\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Canalway Opens May 15: Hundreds of Events Across New York Throughout Season | Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Canal Trail, Erie\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/696f9edef0444.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wktv.com\/users\/profile\/Zach%20Lewis\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By: Zach Lewis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UTICA, N.Y. &#8212; The New York State Canal System is opening for the season, offering a wide range of events along New York\u2019s historic waterways.<\/p>\n<p>The Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor announced that the canal system will open for navigation at 8 a.m. on May 15, with activities planned from Buffalo to Albany.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the season, visitors can take part in festivals, community celebrations, recreational activities, canalside concerts and guided tours.<\/p>\n<p>The Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor works to preserve canal heritage, promote the region as a tourism destination and support communities along more than 500 miles of waterway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eriecanalway.org\/explore\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here for the full list of events<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By: Zach Lewis UTICA, N.Y. &#8212; The New York State Canal System is opening for the season, offering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,919,85189,138,137,27399],"class_list":["post-191318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-canal","tag-erie-canalway","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-opening-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}