The Lockport Cave & Underground Boat Ride in Lockport, NY, along the Erie Canal, is just a 30 minute drive from Niagara Falls (via Route 31 East), offers the public an exciting 70-minute guided tour through America’s past. You will explore the historic Erie Canal Locks 67-71, constructed in 1838. You will also view ruins from an earlier industrial age, walk safely through a water tunnel that was blasted out of solid rock in the 1850s, viewing stalactites, flow stone, various geological formations and artifacts left behind by the men who built the tunnel in the early days of the Erie Canal.