You can now visit the ground level of Niagara Falls without going on a boat

[Dan Druff]

Most people, myself included, have done two things two see Niagara Falls:

- Go to one or more of the viewpoints at either the Ontario or New York sides

- Take a boat which approaches the falls


On the Ontario side, you have been able to buy a package to descend partway down into tunnels in the rock, and view the falls that way: https://www.niagaraparks.com/visit/a...ind-the-falls/

I've never done this, but would like to try it sometime.


However, a new attraction has opened up at the surface of the water, where you can see the falls from there, and also walk through a 1905 tunnel which used to generate power. You also take a glass elevator where you descend 180 feet and see the old generating equipment as you go down.





Seems pretty cool. Has anyone done this? They opened up the surface tunnel and the elevator in July 2022.

I will definitely try both this and the "Journey Behind the Falls" thing when I next visit the area. I was last at Niagara Falls in 2014, when I made a trip to Detroit/Toronto/Niagara.

[Sanlmar]

When I next visit the area.

Once was enough. The experience outside of the Falls was pretty seedy. If you have kids or you are are missing several teeth perhaps the carnival surrounding the Falls has appeal.

Certainly an impressive natural spectacle with interesting history but we move on.

[FRANKRIZZO]

Thats cool, was there 20 years ago area was downtrodden.

[Texter]

Did the behind the falls thing as a kid, probably got some kind of discount since my dad taught at Niagara U back then.

It was kinda cool, you come out to the side of the falls and can look up at them, no clue if it’s worth the cost. I thought the museum down by the whirlpool was cooler since it was mostly about the crazy ways people would try and survive going over the falls…but the whirlpool itself was pretty lame.

That video looks substantially better than what I saw as a kid.