Niagara Falls Opens Up 100-Year-Old Tunnel To Experience It In New Ways

Niagara Falls is introducing a new way to experience the attraction with a tunnel on the Canadian side that runs beneath the whitewater wonder.
 
According to Niagara Parks, this 2,198-foot tunnel was first constructed in 1901 with dynamite, pickaxes, and shovels. It was excavated to help handle the power of the waterfall.
 
The structure was in use from 1905 to 2006, when it was used to divert water from Niagara Falls to a power plant to be turned into electricity for a regional industry in Buffalo, NY. It shut down shortly after that and is now being opened again to the public.
 

In order to access it, visitors will have to take a glass elevator 180 feet past the six levels of the infrastructure of the hydropower generator. According to the park’s administrators, the new area will “take you along the same path traveled by water and lead you to a viewing platform where the tunnel emptied into the Niagara River.”
 
Before it opened at the actual site of the Falls, it was part of a tour that took tourists around the Niagara Park Power Station.

 
 
 
[via UPI and CNN, cover image via Niagara Parks]