Flight of Five Locks

The Flight of Five Locks on the Erie Canal in Lockport, New York is a staircase lock constructed to lift or lower a canal boat over the Niagara Escarpment in five stages.

The locks are part of the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor.

[1] In Stairway to Empire: Lockport, the Erie Canal, and the Shaping of America, (SUNY Press, 2009), historian Patrick McGreevy details the construction of the locks.

[2] To carry the canal across the Niagara Escarpment, the engineers built a five-step staircase lock.

[2] The restored locks reopened in 2014 (11 years ago) (2014).

Original northern five step lock structure crossing the Niagara Escarpment at Lockport, before restoration