Erie Canal
Lock 32 Whitewater Course
| Difficulty | II+ |
| Length | 0.1 mi |
| Avg Gradient | n/a |
| Reach Info Last Updated | April 12, 2018 |
This short, sweet section of holes, waves, eddylines, and slalom gates is thanks to the tireless volunteers at the Genesee Waterways Center. It's been open since August, 2001.
The course is open daily from the second Thursday in May to the second Thursday in October.
Here are directions and a road map.
Lock 32 opens the first Friday of May, with a big open house. There is no entrance fee for the night and Lock 32's staff is on hand to give you the full tour of the Whitewater Course and the Canal's Lock and explain how the whole system works.
Lockapalooza is an informal competition and festival, a celebration of Rochester's whitewater kayaking community. The fifth annual Lockapalooza will be held August 8 and 9, 2009, with a boatercross, slalom race and rodeo, along with representati
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This is a set of very crisp squirt lines with a small wave. It's got a very long runout with lots of eddies on either side, so it's very forgiving. It's pretty close to an ideal learning spot for ferries, eddy turns and squirts.
Yeah, we need a better name. Any suggestions?
Cloverleaf is a small front-surfing wave. Behind it there's a splat rock and three eddies in the shape of a cloverleaf.
Faceoff is now a super kickin' hole. You can do pretty much everything in it: cartwheel both ways, loop huge (and easily), space godzilla, lunar orbit, phonics monkey. . . It's smiley shaped and a little flushier on both sides so you can spin and set up.
Below is a video from last year's Lockapalooza freestyle competition, which we held at Faceoff.
This is a little bit more user friendly than Faceoff. It'll let you do spins and it's a great place to learn to cartwheel. It's also good at pretty much any level.
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