As someone born in DC, visiting most of the sights over the last 60 years, the C&O Canal is probably my #1 favorite in the area. 185 miles of National Park preserving the Maryland side of the Potomac River and this feature is a reminder that while I visit at least a few times a week, I need to see more of it. Well done.

I grew up near the C & O canal and love this story! I can’t wait to try to ride the boat on my next visit home.

One of the pure and helpful items coming out of D.C.

@liokin229

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DC is much more than the federal government seated in it. It has a really strong local community within the longtime residents.

Congratulations Washington DC!👍🏾 I learned much. Glad to see people of varied colors participating

I'm so glad that they restored it.

I live here in DC very close to this area. The video did not mention that you can take the C&O Canal by bike from Georgetown to Cumberland and then in Cumberland MD, there is another trail that goes to Pittsburgh. So you could bike from Georgetown DC to Pittsburgh by bike in 3-5 days....depending how fast you want to go. Another point: From the Key Bridge to the American Legion bridge there are almost no houses along the Potomac River. And its also the most beautiful stretch of the Potomac River.

@5to1-w6d

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“You can take the C&O canal by bike.” How does one pedal a bike in the canal?

@OneAdam12Adam

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@@5to1-w6d hy the same path on both sides that the mules use. They mention PATHS.

@5to1-w6d

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@@OneAdam12Adam thank you for clearing that up, your sentence implied they took the canal by bike. I was not sure if you meant they loaded their bikes on to canal boats. Thanks

@ashleydaniel3215

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Great info thanks, that trail would be good you tube content.

@liokin229

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Doing that ride from Pittsburg to DC with some college friends next summer. Really looking forward to it!

Nice video. I live on a canal boat in the UK 63ft x 6.10ft. Love it would never change it back to a house.

This is awesome!!! Bringing History back to life !!!! I love it!! It's beautiful !!! I wish I could go and ride on it. This is wonderful!!!!

Thank you for the great story of the C&O Canal..very well done! And, this awesome canal connects in Cumberland, after 184 miles, with another trail that takes you all the way to Pittsburgh. 330+ miles of off-road hiking, biking etc from DC to Pittsburgh...the Great Allegheny Passage, or GAP Trail. Awesome!

Wonderful that this section of the canal survived and is such a treasured attraction today.

What a wonderful report! As a proud fifth generation Washingtonian I am so happy that it has reopened! Will have to go over to Georgetown to take the boat!!

I remember visiting the C&O canal (during the mid 60’s) when I was in Girl Scouts. Fascinating! We sometimes walk, hike, bike along the C&O Canal.

The Watergate Hotel, of Watergate fame, derives it's name from being next door to the C&O canal entry from the Potomac River.

My daughter and I rode the canal over the summer. It was a cool experience, and we learned a lot.

Interesting place. I ran the C&O from Cumberland to MM0 in 63 hrs this past June - lot of great memories. Nice to see the canal boats giving rides.

I went to school at Georgetown and find this so exciting. I'll definitely visit it when I restore in the future.

We have a canal thru town that really needs help! 25 years ago when we moved here the mules pulled the barges. Such a nice sound

@bobbybecker6435

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Where is that?

This is right beside my office in georgetown

Loved watching this, I'm a canal boater/ kayaker from UK and seeing how you're restoring your canal is great 🙂

I just bicycled the C&O from Cumberland MD to Washington DC in late August. One of the best vacation experiences I've ever had. Looking forward to doing the Great Alleghany Passage and the C&O next year.

Congratulations Washington DC!👍🏾

I went to Jr High and High School just up the road from here on MacArthur Blvd and distinctly remember seeing these boats being pulled along by mules. It makes me happy to see that it’s back!

@tenossos

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Yes, the mules. My family rode it in the 1960s when mules pulled the boats

Thanks for posting. It was a good report ❤️

This is where I live, canal at Clear Spring. An uncle walked it 8 times. I own a sign from a canal boat. Not a repro. I walk it regularly.

“More people visited, including Yellowstone.” Amazing factoid. My friend used to love visiting the Call Your Mother cafe on 35th and O Street NW in Georgetown. It was a short stroll down to the canal from there. Looking forward to a future CBS Morning Show featuring donuts at the Call Your Mother cafe, then a leisurely stroll down to the C&O Canal.

@liokin229

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There's a great coffee and bike shop right there on Grace street and Wisonsin Ave NW. Grace Street Roasters and High Road Cycling.

🎶low bridge...everybody down...low bridge cause we're coming to a town...you'll always know your friend...you'll always know your pal if your ever traveling down the Erie canal!

@chrislee1096

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Thanks for reminding me, I’d forgotten sang that in grade school.

Fantastic....was not aware. Fabulous history lesson.

Hey that was a fascinating story.

Wow! What a great story!

Very cool, didn't know the US had narrow boat canals.

@ashleydaniel3215

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The colonists brought the idea with them from England especially oh Georgie boy

@M1911jln

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Canals were very important to the development of the USA. This was not one of the major canals. The Erie Canal was far more important. But railroads quickly overtook canals in importance.

@skysthelimitvideos

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US has a lot of canals. They were very important for transportation back in the 1800s prior to the popularization of rail. They’re also popular today for recreation particularly in warmer places like Florida and Cali

Can’t wait to visit some day.

Fantastic!

This is interesting to see especially since I have been on canal tours and boat rides in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. If you can’t make it to DC there are also boat ride tours at the national canal museum in Easton PA. I look forward to riding the one in Washington also!

Fascinating!

Like in Holland! So cool

It's cool. I have been on that ride.

High Moore canal museum!

👍👍👍felt I was in Great Britain😀

Soon we would all be travelling this way.

The Erie Canal is one thing that caused New York City to shoot past Philadelphia regarding population. It changed so much about our history.

Unique

Im sorry thankto you .

They should use it for more than a museum

Been to D C or the Baltimore D C ares 30 times but never heard of the DC Canel

@lisamcallister6534

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It's the C&O canal. Listen to the segment.

Motorized engines? No mules? Oh man! That kind of defeats the purpose! The whole point was that tons of cargo and passengers could be moved by being pulled along by a single mule. These boat were the 18th and 19th century equivalent to semi-trucks. Mules also make for a very quiet, contemplative ride. I say ditch the engines and bring back the mules! Families would live on canal boats and children as young as seven years old would ride the mule to direct it to keep going on. Also, tying children for safety wasn't limited to canal boats. Caregivers routinely tied young children to their aprons by "leading strings" to keep the child from wondering off. That was a literal practice. It's where the saying that someone is "still tied to their mother's apron strings," comes from. If you are ever in Georgetown, it is very easy and convenient to walk along the C & O Canal. I drive past it a couple of times a week and so often wish that I could just stop and take some time to stroll along the tow path.

@tenossos

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These boats have electric motors now, but they were pulled by mules when my family rode in one during the 1960s

Before the electric motors, these boats were pulled by mules, at least into the 1960s when we rode one.

I want to go

Now if they could similarly restore all the areas around New Orleans

Don’t forget the mules!

This is interesting

When will the homeless move in?

@liokin229

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Into the water?

My butts canal ha ha ha, the chocolate fudge canal!

Sa Pinas nga Pasig river Yan eh

Are you guys taking a trip on my root canal?

Alot Of Weed, Alcohol, and Graffiti Tagging There During my Highschool Years. George Town "CLIFFS" you could Randomly walk up on a Good Night to Find Like 20+ People Chillin Out n Painting...

We should restore the canal from Georgetown to Cumberland so we Americans can Narrowboat like the Brits in the UK!

@colinstobbart599

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Love to take mine over and go through your canals but not much of a canal to navigate.

@jimalden9355

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A lovely idea that I would love to see...but just not practical. Seems the lovely Potomac River likes to flood, badly when we get one of those huge rain storms, which happen more and more often. And since the canal parallels the river, it gets destroyed, badly. Go back over the past 30 years alone and see the damage it has endured. In fact, it was a flood that finally killed the canal in 1924. Still....I share your dream.

You can't find better life jackets than those??? 🙄🙄🙄🙄

You forgot the rats.

@lisamcallister6534

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We don't have rats at the canal.

@kengordon8357

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@@lisamcallister6534 Sorry to inform, but yes we do. Some ran alongside me for company last time I rode my bike on the towpath.

CBS still living in 1972. Like Dan Rather, still can’t give up Watergate. SMH.

Just SHSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Super cool but riding in that thing sounds super boring

When are we going to have canal boats like the uk has?

Help, my nose hairs are blocking my airway canals!

There has been plenty of weed smoked on that canal

Why are you wearing this my brother

Hmm. "Laborers?"

The NPS also restored section of the canal near Great Falls, including a canal boat. So that would be another cool spot to visit, which is about 15 miles up the start of the canal: www.nps.gov/choh/planyourvisit/great-falls-canal-boat-rides.htm

Didn’t know about it, definitely a different side of DC🚤🧘‍♀️