Montezuma Heritage Park — Attraction in Town of Montezuma

This is a 180-acre passive use park that helps to tell the story of the Erie and Cayuga Seneca Canals and the challenges of working in the Cayuga Marshes. There is no building or welcome center. Nor is there any on duty staff. However, you will often run across one of the many volunteers that help to keep the park maintained. There are a number of trails and sites to visit. Most of the sites have information signage, and there are three larger kiosks at the Chapman Road, High Street trailheads, and the Route 31 parking lot. These have maps and provide an overview of the park. There are a couple Porta potties at the two trailheads and a more substantial pit toliet at the Rt 31 lot. The nearest store is in Port Byron or at the Rt 20/90 intersection, so bring your supplies. This park is not affiliated with the Montezuma Wildlife Refuge. It is a town park that abuts the MWR. There is also access from the Seneca River with easy beaching areas...

Wow--we could go on and on about this wonderful gem of a park!! Congrats to this community for a well-designed set of trails, exceptional signage, management and upkeep. We were thrilled to visit while on vacation in the area. The trails we explored were nicely mowed grass and well-marked. We spotted an amazing diversity of birds along with such a variety of landscapes. The remnants of the aqueduct were incredible. We are so impressed by a seemingly small community making such a major contribution to recording history and preserving an important legacy....

Nice park with ample parking and access to historic Montezuma, an early Erie Canal town that played an important role in ushering in vast economic opportunity,, connecting western and central New York with the ocean ports of...