Niagara Falls displays dazzling light shows in winter
From USA Today:
You can’t take a boat ride into the roar and spray of Niagara Falls in the winter, but this time of year offers a different spectacle: Nighttime illumination of the falls in a changing array of colors – red, white, blue, purple, orange, amber and green.
In spring and summer, the colored lights shine for just three hours, but with less daylight in winter, curtains of color wash over the falls each night for up to seven hours.
Crowds gather along the sidewalk and railing on Niagara Parkway to see the show as mist rises from the falls and basin in front of them; others watch from the windows of hotels and restaurants on the Canadian side.
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Niagara Falls Festival of Lights 2011 Live Stream, Dates, Webcam Feed
From PR-Inside.com:
Along the Niagara Parkway is a winter wonderland of dancing and shimmering light displays, all meant to dazzle and entertain. The displays of the Festival of Lights are intricate, fascinating and inspired.
This live feed is watching the Niagara Falls Festival of Lights:
www.myworldwebcams.com/events/niagara_festival_lights.html
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Mickey and Minnie light up winter festival
From the Niagara Falls Review (includes video):
With the push of a button by Mickey and Minnie, the CAA Winter Festival of Lights kicked off its 29th year Saturday night. The festival got under way in familiar fashion with a pair of free shows at Queen Victoria Park featuring magician Greg Frewin, the cast of the Oh Canada Eh? dinner show and local dancers and singers.
There were back-to-back Ontario Power Generation Opening Ceremony shows, but the first one ended with the illumination of the festival’s three million lights along a 6 km stretch of the Niagara Parkway.
The park was packed with thousands of people for the opening night events thanks to temperatures that were less frigid than normal. “It’s like an early gift. It’s a nice way to start off the season,” said Winter Festival of Lights general manager Dino Fazio.
The nice weather made the kick-off more appealing this year, said one of the many parents who brought their kids to see the Disney characters perform. “The kids love it because they get to see action – the characters, the Christmas music. It’s good for the community,” said Lorraine Bradshaw, who brought her nine-year-old daughter Kaitelyn to the event for the first time.
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Best Road Trip..The Niagara Parkway
From Nile Guide (including pictures):
When I think of Niagara Falls and its tourism industry I automatically think of two words; road trip. It really is the perfect spot to venture to for a quick weekend getaway from reality, as it is just a hop, skip and jump over to the United States border and an hour drive from the great city of Toronto. Thus is it safe to assume that those who venture to Niagara Falls are looking for a way to get the kids out and running around after the four hour drive from your home town (or twenty minute drive from down the road).
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‘It feels more like a park than a Parkway’
From the Niagara Falls Review:
The inaugural Car-Free Day on the Niagara Parkway wasn’t free of suggestions from both tourists and locals who want to see the event evolve from its humble beginnings Sunday.
“This is awesome,” said Mike Sherman, a cyclist from Montreal who was riding down the empty Parkway toward the Horseshoe Falls with fellow Montrealer Jen Zwarych.
“I think it’s great,” Zwarych said, adding it was their first time in Niagara Falls. “It’s a little empty though. We’ve never been here with the cars, but if the cars are louder than the falls it would definitely make it less cool.”
For the first time ever, the Niagara Parks Commission on Sunday shut down the Niagara Parkway to vehicle traffic, except the NPC’s people-mover buses.
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First-ever Car-Free Sunday on Niagara Pkwy
From the Welland Tribune:
It’s going to be a Car-Free Sunday on Niagara Parkway.
For the first time in recent history, pedestrians and cyclists will have a chance to enjoy a stretch of the parkway without having to worry about traffic.
The route along the river between Clifton Hill and Murray St. will be closed to all vehicles except the Niagara Parks Commission’s people movers from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.
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Flowers along the Parkway
I’m sure some of the flowers will get damaged with the huge gusts of wind today, but this is what the Niagara Parkway/Queen Victoria Park area looked like yesterday. Nice!
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Springs Flowers (in snow and rain)
It is great to see the flowers starting to come up along the Niagara Parkway, even if it is through the snow.
The snow is gone now, and some of the smaller flowers have opened.
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Gale wants unbiased NPC investigation
From Niagara This Week:
The list of people to turn to is short, and getting shorter for Bob Gale in his ongoing push for what he considers a proper investigation of the Niagara Parks Commission.
As a former commissioner, Gale has spent the last few years crusading for change at the arms-length agency of the provincial government that is responsible for overseeing the parklands and attractions surrounding the Niagara Parkway. It was Gale’s complaints about the untendered lease of the Maid of the Mist boat tour operation in 1998 that started the ball rolling on a number of changes to hit the commission, including the most recent provincial overhaul there.
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Nice photos of Niagara Falls in Autumn 2010
Yesterday I walked along the Niagara Parkway next to the Falls and in Queen Victoria Park. I took a bunch of pictures. It was overcast, so the sky doesn’t look great, but the colours of the leaves look good. I should have probably taken these a couple of weeks ago to get some more leaves on the trees, but I just didn’t think about it. Unfortunately, in the last couple of weeks we’ve had a lot of wind, so most of the leaves are off the trees now.
You can see some of the thumbnails below, and the full versions in the Niagara Falls in Autumn 2010 gallery.
Note: There were 3,241 images in 254 galleries/categories in the Niagara Falls Image Gallery at the time they were posted.
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