Vischer Ferry Nature & Historic Preserve

Hard to Find If You Depend on Siri

A bucket list place for my Erie Canal loving brother from Lockport. For some reason, Siri did not have either the preserve or the hamlet on its maps, so it was unnecessarily difficult to locate and we...

Great place to walk

Theirs is the original 1825 Erie Canal bed..along side are the updates to the canal through the years. You can walk forever on the towpath.

Always Something New

Always beautiful. My wife and daughter and I always see some sort of wildlife, sometimes large water birds, sometimes birds of prey. We've seen about a half dozen species of reptile and amphibians.

Awesome

My daughter had been here but our trick was finding it for a day of snow shoeing. We did find it and I loved it so very much a bridge and open wild territory right on the Mohawk River. A little slic...

Lovely fall hike - check out the wildflowers, wildlife and history!

I have enjoyed walking this trail many times. It is filled with wildlife, wildflowers and history. If you see some weeds with orange flowers and pods, reach out and touch the pods; they will burst i...