If you missed local crafter Lori Mackessy & her incredibly stuffed animals, they were so popular we are having her back for your Holiday Shopping needs! Lori's animals are handmade, soft, adorable & range in price from $18-36. Maybe puppy Fergus will make another appearance too!

Join us for our 1st of our Winter Speakers Series, Snippets and Tales let by local Canal expert and author, Dr. David Beebe. Dr. Beebe will explore the Canals of England and Scotland, including the famous Falkirk Wheel. Learn what "legging" over three miles means as well as stories about multiple canals the Beebe's visited. […]

The Maxwell Library returns to Sims Store for 2024 with craft time from 12 - 2pm. This time you can make your own sock gnome! This event is FREE and enjoyable by all ages! No registration is required.

In Fall, 2023 many of you followed the Canal Schooner the Lois McClure on her journey from Vermont down the Champlain Canal to the Erie Canal to the Cayuga Seneca Canal on her way to her permanent home in Port Byron. Learn from Craig Williams, President of the Canal Society of New York & Captain […]

Join Maxwell’s Director, Jenny, at the Camillus Erie Canal Sims’ Store Museum to make an End of the Rainbow Felt Magnet, perfect for St. Patrick’s Day! Drop-in anytime between the two hours. All supplies provided. All ages. FREE!

Let us celebrate our fabulous Camillus Canal Society Volunteers, who keep this Park going, with our Annual Spaghetti Dinner and Awards Presentation! This year we return again to the Camillus Elks Lodge. Look for your invitation in your email or snail mail and please RSVP by March 3.

Join us for our March Snippets & Tales Winter Speaker Series with this historic look at BEER! The Erie Canal was a transformative waterway for various industries along its route, including brewing, which flourished from Albany to Buffalo. This discussion examines the Canal’s beer boom in the 19th century and its new one in the […]

For over 50 years our Park has been operated & maintained through an agreement with the Town of Camillus & the Camillus Canal Society. All maintenance & educational programming is because of volunteers. From gardening, to boat building, to museum docenting to cooking, if you can do it we need you! 10 am - 12 […]

Join us for our final Snippets & Tales Winter Speakers Series with Captain Kaitlynn McHenry! Less than 8% of the boat or ship Captains in the World are women! Captain McHenry started her career captaining tour boats on the Erie Canal, and is the only woman ever in the 140 year history of the company […]

Do you love Central New York as well as biking or hiking the Erie Canalway Trail and want to share that passion? You could be a perfect candidate for becoming a Trail Ambassador! This new program aims to make CNY more inviting to the thousands of cyclists and hikers who come through our region every year […]

Did you know birds & bird watching helped to get our park started way back in the 1970's? Join Jenny, Maxwell's Director, at the Camillus Erie Canal Sims' Store Museum to make a Yarn Bird. Today is National Go Birding Day, so this is a fun way to celebrate our feathery friends. Drop-in anytime between […]

Boat Season has begun here at the Park! Starting today (through early October) we will have public boat rides on Wednesdays and Sundays at 1, 2 and 3pm! Our 45 minute narrated boat ride is the MOST AFFORDABLE BOAT RIDE IN NYS and will take you over the only restored, rewatered and navigable aqueduct left […]