GLIN==> Press release: Follow America's Byway to 50th anniversary celebration for Seaway

PRESS RELEASE: July 7, 2009
Contact: Teresa Mitchell, Great Lakes Seaway Trail, 315-646-1000
 
Follow America¹s Byway to 50th Anniversary Celebration for Seaway
Massena, NY - July 9-12, 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of engineering feat
that created the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The best way to reach the
festivities at Massena, New York, is by traveling along the America¹s Byway
that shares part of its name with the Seaway.

The 518-mile Great Lakes Seaway Trail parallels the St. Lawrence River, Lake
Ontario, Niagara River and Lake Erie in New York and Pennsylvania. A journey
along the Great Lakes Seaway Trail offers an authentic American experience
of the fresh waters and shoreline landscapes that has shaped much of
America¹s history.

Fifty years ago Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and U.S. President Dwight D.
Eisenhower opened the powerful manmade waterway route into the North
American interior. In 2009, the anniversary celebration includes author and
historian programs, a parade, and concert. Learn more at
www.greatlakes-seaway.com

The Saint Lawrence Seaway has been called ³the Gateway to North America² and
the 120-mile east-to-west start of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail is its
road-based parallel. The byway then continues another 398 miles to the
Pennsylvania-Ohio border along Lake Erie.

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Locks Visitor Center, from which you can watch the
world¹s oceangoing vessels rise and lower the equivalent of a six-story
building in the locks at Massena, NY, is one of many iconic destinations on
the Great Lakes Seaway Trail. Other popular destinations include the 1000
Islands, small harbors along the Lake Ontario and Lake Erie shorelines,
Niagara Falls, and the Seaway Trail Pennsylvania Erie Bayfront. Learn more
online at www.seawaytrail.com or call 315-646-1000. #



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