Our Ticket to Ride Program provides funding to help you take advantage of first-rate educational field trips to the Erie Canal. Choose from exceptional programs at designated museums and historic canal sites near you. Funding is available on a first-come, first-served basis until available funds are exhausted.
Registration is now open for the 2026-27 school year.
- Review the list of tour providers below and read the program guidelines.
- Schedule your tour directly with the tour provider. Erie Canalway does not facilitate any tour booking.
- Register your Ticket to Ride tour funding request. We encourage you to submit a funding request as soon possible after confirming a field trip date. Funding is confirmed based on the order in which completed Registration forms are received.
Erie Canalway Ticket to Ride Locations
These sites offer a trained curator, educator, or historian; formal docent program; approved tour script reflecting State Education standards; and demonstrated experience providing school tours.
• Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, Canajoharie
• Buffalo Maritime Center, Buffalo
• Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum, Chittenango
• Erie Canal Discovery Center, Lockport
• Erie Canal Museum, Syracuse
• Camillus Erie Canal Park, Camillus
• Fort Stanwix National Monument, Rome
• Historic Palmyra, Palmyra
• MiSci, Schenectady
• Oneida Community Mansion House, Oneida
• Rochester by Water, Rochester/Pittsford
• Rochester Museum & Science Center, Rochester
• Saratoga National Historical Park, Stillwater
• Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site, Fort Hunter
• Seneca Falls Museum & Tourism Center, Seneca Falls
• Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence, Albany (Underground Railroad story)
• Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls
The Erie Canal Learning Hub is a joint initiative of the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor and the New York State Canal Corporation, with additional support from the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation.
