Travel information about Niagara Falls Area, and getaways

The Niagara River drains the waters of the Upper Great Lakes down to Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence. The Niagara Region has been key to water transportation opening up the North American interior to settlement and development, as well as to shipping its resources to markets using both the Welland Canal in Canada and the Erie Canal in the United States.

There's lots to do, if you want to get out of town. There are lots of other visit-worthy communities in the Niagara Frontier & Niagara Penninsula. In New York are Tonawanda & Lockport along the Erie Canal, and Youngstown. In Ontario are Niagara on the Lake was Upper Canada's first capital city, and then Fort Erie, Port Colborne on Lake Erie, and Welland, Thorold, and St Catharines along the Welland Canal.

This temperate agricultural area has many wineries and farmers markets.

There are many accommodation options in the area, from first class hotels, to motels, beds & breakfast, long-term accommodation, and camping.

We even have lots of tips for getting away, including other countries' Online Travel Offices, links to travel guidebooks' web sites. We even have links to sites that can help you plan a honeymoon, eloped wedding, or romantic getaway. To round things out we have information about Canada & US Customs, a listing of Canadian embassies and consulates around the world, and an overview of our airport(s) and links to airports around the world (so you can check what to do during connections between flights)

We recogize that travel inherently uses a lot of energy and a lot of resources, since it involves moving us (and our luggage) large distances around the world. Here are a number of suggestions for reducing our impact as well as our "carbon footprint".