FREE EVENT!

Free parking available, bring lawn chairs or a blanket!

Day time activities to be announced soon

8:00 PM CONCERT

Albany Symphony

Festive Drone Show immediately follows concert

An Erie Canal Bicentennial Event

Composer Celka Ojakangas will transform the lock site into a vibrant performance environment that unites music, nature, art, and community. Her work will focus on an exploration of local natural habit and population restoration to reintroduce eagles to the region. She will work with local schools and community groups to write haikus on this theme to be featured in the new work. The concert will conclude with a drone show.

DID YOU KNOW?

 

“The Waterford Flight” is a set of 5 locks that raises boats from the Hudson River (elevation 15.2 feet) at Lock 2 to the Mohawk River (elevation 184 feet) west of Lock 6 and above the Cohoes Falls. The locks range in lift from 33 to 34.5 feet. It raises boats a total elevation of 169 feet in ~1.5 miles. When opened, the flights were the highest elevation in the shortest distance in the country for canal locks. It is speculated that they remain the highest elevation over the shortest distance for a canal in the world in the world: for comparison, the Panama Canal is an elevation change of 85 ft. and the Welland Canal in Canada rises 326 ft. over 27 miles.