Your next chance won't be until spring 2025, when restoration work on the canal is finished. Don’t miss out.
The C&O Canal will be drained until 2025 for restoration projects. Photograph by Sam Kittner, courtesy of the Georgetown Business Improvement District.
This month is your last chance to take a guided boat tour on the C&O Canal in Georgetown for a long time. After October, the canal will be drained for a $28 million restoration project and won’t open again until 2025. Visitors have only had a few months to enjoy the canal boat tours after a decade-long hiatus. In 2011, the former canal boat, the Georgetown, was damaged and deemed inoperable. A new 80-foot-long canal boat was introduced this year, and began giving tours inThe boat is currently docked at Lock 3, near the National Parks Service’s visitor center.
The restoration is spearheaded by the group Georgetown Heritage in partnership with the NPS, and is expected to take at least 30 months. The project will restore Locks 1, 2, and 5 and repair canal valves and walls. It’s also a part of a largerBefore the project gets underway, enjoy being on the water while you still can. The iconic boat tour will continue to run every Wednesday through Sunday until the end of October, plus Monday, October 10. The tours depart at 10 a.m, 12 p.m., 2 p.m., and 4 p.
are $15 for adults and $8 for children on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and $25 for adults and $15 for children the rest of the week.
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