Cycling.
Port Colborne is the Lake Erie terminus of the Welland Canals Parkway Trail and the southern anchor of the Greater Niagara Circle Route — the roughly 140-kilometre canal-corridor cycling loop linking the Lake Erie end of the Welland Canal to the Lake Ontario end at Port Weller in St. Catharines.
The riding starts at the canal-mouth piers and HH Knoll Lakeview Park.
The brief.
The Welland Canals Parkway Trail is paved, flat, and signed, and is part of the Trans Canada Trail. From the south end in Port Colborne, the trail heads north along the canal toward Welland (where the recreational waterway runs through the city centre), Thorold (Lock 7 viewing complex and the flight locks 4-5-6, where the active canal climbs the Niagara Escarpment), and onward to St.
Catharines and Port Weller on Lake Ontario. The Greater Niagara Circle Route adds the Niagara River corridor — past Fort Erie, Niagara Falls, and Niagara-on-the-Lake — to make a full loop.
Port Colborne is a natural southern staging point for full-loop riders. May through October is the cycling window; multi-use rules apply.
3. places.
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Welland Canals Parkway Trail — Port Colborne south terminus
Paved multi-use trail along the canal corridor; segment of the Trans Canada Trail; starts at the canal mouth and HH Knoll Lakeview Park.
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Greater Niagara Circle Route
~140-km canal-and-river-corridor cycling loop linking Port Colborne, Welland, Thorold, St. Catharines, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Niagara Falls, and Fort Erie.
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HH Knoll Lakeview Park
Lake Erie lakefront staging at the south terminus of the trail.
Today's read.
Cool but comfortable for layered effort · light winds · clean air.