Black Rock Canal Park — Attraction in Buffalo

This is a cool little park, kind of tucked away in-between the 190 and the Niagara River. There's only one entrance through the underpass under the 190, but the park spreads to either side of the entrance. Most of the parking is to the north, but there is a small amount of parking right at the entrance, near the boat launch. The boat launch is free, and the area of the river means that the current there along the shore is actually flowing upstream, making it a little easier to control a boat at this point.

There is a two part dog park just over the walking bridge to the south (no parking nearby other than the lot by the boat launch), and there's a displayed piece of the actual rock formation that gave Black Rock its name (although the actual rock was all the way on the other side of the Peace Bridge, and it's really a dark grey and not black, but go with it).

All the way to the north, where there is a really tight circle for small cars to turn around at the end of the parking area, is the 'Avian Walk' with some wireframe sculptures of birds one might see in the area.

One thing to note is that the Shoreline Trail bike path goes right through this and through the parking lot without defined lanes. This means that both drivers and cyclists need to be on the lookout for each other, going in either direction or pulling into or out of...

This trail could easily be a 5 star, if they only spent more attention to the maintenance of this trail. Don't get me wrong the bike/walk pathway is great. There is no unstable footing and the trail is very smooth. My issue is the caretaking of the grass and benches. To many areas of the trail is overgrown with weeds. So much so, that many of the benches are not even worth trying to sit at. Some of the benches need to be changed out, because they are so rusted out. But again the actual path is great, and well worth coming to enjoy it. I am not sure how far this trail stretches out mile wise, but we started at black rock and ended up at Tonawanda. During this stretch you pass boat docks, water pump houses, and a restaurant called River Grill. I will...

I'm 40 and I have lived in WNY for about 97% of my adult life. I discovered this place about two months ago. I had no idea this place existed and that it has better views than Hoyt Lake. Now, there's snow on the ground and I can't wait til next summer so I can come here and "wake up" with my cup of coffee. If you like water, you should definitely come check this place out. This inspired me to see what else I haven't...