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.
NOTE: Ticket to Ride funding for the 2024-25 school year is fully allocated. Please check back in September to apply for field trip funding in the 2025-26 school year.
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.
• Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany
• Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, Canajoharie
• Camillus Erie Canal Park, Camillus
• Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum, Chittenango
• Cornhill Navigation/Riverie & Sam Patch Boat Tours, Rochester/Pittsford
• Erie Canal Discovery Center, Lockport
• Erie Canal Museum, Syracuse
• Feeder Canal & Towpath Trail, Hudson Falls
• Historic Palmyra, Palmyra
• MiSci, Schenectady
• Rochester Museum & Science Center, Rochester
• Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site, Fort Hunter
• Seneca Museum of Waterways and Industry, Seneca Falls
• Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence, Albany (Underground Railroad story)
Open Outdoors for Kids
Fourth grade students are invited to connect with National Parks in the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor to fulfill our nation's goal of ensuring every fourth grader in the country has a free trip to a national park. Contact the park to schedule a field trip and use the Registration Form to request funds to cover tour and bus fees to these parks:
• Fort Stanwix National Monument, Rome
• Saratoga National Historical Park, Stillwater
• 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 Foundation and the National Park Service.
