The Lockport Cave & Underground Boat Ride in Lockport, NY, on the Erie Canal, 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 1842. You will also view ruins from an earlier industrial age, walk safely through an underground water raceway (tunnel) that was blasted out of solid rock in the 1850s, view forming 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.