B Vaughan wrote:
> We stayed at an Econolodge on the American side of the falls. It was
> walking distance from the falls, even closer than the official parking
> lot for the falls. No parking on the American side is extremely close,
> as there is a large park on the American side, and parking is all on
> the outside edge. There are very nice walking paths leading to the
> Falls, some right along the river edge. You can walk almost to the
> brink of the falls.
If you were that close to the falls you could have walked across the bridge to the
Canadian side and saved a lot of time.
>
> On the Canadian side, which we visited the next day, we couldn't find
> parking at all. We drove several kilometers along the road that
> borders the falls, following signs to a distant parking lot with
> shuttle busses. The traffic was at walking pace, because of people
> slowing down to gawk. When we got to the distant lot, there was a sign
> indicating that it was full, and we would have had to crawl back along
> that road to find another lot on the opposite side.
It is rare for that lot to be full. You must have hit it on a very busy day. There
is a much easier way to get to that lot than along the Parkway, but I guess it is
too late to give you the directions now.
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