On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:18:27 -0400, Dave Smith
wrote:
>> By the way, one of the reasons the view from the Canadian side is
>> better is that the Canadian government has allowed all those high rise
>> hotels to be built right up to the edge of the falls. If you're on the
>> Canadian side, you're looking at the falls and the American park,
>> whilst if you're on the American side you're looking at the huge neon
>> signs in Canada.
>
>The reason that the view of the falls is better from the Canadian side is
>that the American falls runs the side of the gorge and faces the Canadian
>side. While the American side of the falls looks better, you have to go to
>the Canadian side to see it.
I believe I said the same thing. However, due to heavy traffic and
inadequate parking I was unable to stop on the Canadian side the last
time I was there.
>> The Canadian side is such a tourist trap that I would actually prefer
>> to stay on the American side. I would never, on principle, stay in one
>> of the high rises with a falls view. However, the next time I would
>> walk, not drive, to the Canadian side at least once to get the better
>> view.
>
>For crying out loud. There are a few blocks of tourist traps. I suppose
>that is where they all located because they know that so many tourists are
>too lazy to check into what else is available and to spend a few minutes to
>get to them. There is a horticulture school and gardens, hiking trails
>into the gorge, a 30 mile biking trail and park land along the river, a
>butterfly conservatory, Queenston Heights park, winery tours, the nearby
>Welland Canal, horse racing. But all you managed to see was the few blocks
>of the tourist traps that so many people flock too.
I wanted to see the falls. The immediate area of the falls on the
Canadian side resembles Cancun. The reason the tourist traps are there
is of course because there are so many tourists there, but a
responsible urban planning would have prevented them from ruining the
immediate vicinity of the falls. The Canadian side was truly beautiful
30 years ago and now it's been trashed. You can have all the hiking
trails and butterfly conservatories and riverside parks you want along
the Niagara river, but what's been done in the vicinity of the falls
is execrable. People don't go to Niagara Falls to see butterflys.
Smoky Mountain National Park in the US is beautiful, but to get to it
you have to pass through a gauntlet of tourist traps and heavy
traffic. I took some European friends camping there and was sorry I
had.
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Barbara Vaughan
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