Here are a few select videos (30 of our 147) from our 6-day visit to Niagara Falls.
UNITED STATES ATTRACTIONS
CAVE OF THE WINDS
Our visit started with what turned out to be our favorite U.S. attraction, The Cave of the Winds.
It's a self guided tour, meaning you could spend the entire day out here if you wished...
...but you probably wouldn't spend it all on this section known as the "Hurricane Deck".
LUNA ISLAND
Luna Island is not technically an attraction.
It's just a FREE place where you can get up close to the brink of Bridal Veil Falls...
...then slide over a few yards to your right and you're now at the brink of the American Falls.
MAID OF THE MIST
Passing by the base of the American Falls you do get a bit damp...
...but it's nothing compared to the "mist" you're surrounded by at the Canadian Horseshoe Falls.
CANADIAN ATTRACTIONS
WHIRLPOOL AERO CAR
This video of the whirlpools was filmed while waiting our turn to board the Aero Car attraction.
JOURNEY BEHIND THE FALLS
After an elevator ride down and a walk through a long tunnel
you "pop out" of the cliff face at the bottom of Horseshoe Falls.
After walking through a different, even longer tunnel
you'll find yourself looking out an open window from "behind" Horseshoe Falls.
HORSESHOE FALLS
Again technically not an attraction, but this is the brink of Horseshoe Falls,
only this time from the Canadian side. Complete with a rainbow!
A full frontal view of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls.
WHITE WATER WALK
This is what Class 6 rapids look like 2½-miles downstream from the falls.
I found this definition on the internet:
Class 6 means “impassable whitewater”, no one has rafted that section and lived to tell about it.
BUTTERFLY CONSERVATORY
That's someone else trying to coax a butterfly to climb up on their finger. She was unsuccessful!
Thirty seconds in the life of a butterfly.
THE INCLINE RAILWAY
This video shows us watching a railcar descending down the track.
This video is our entire 60-second ride down the track.
These next 12 videos are all from what is obviously our favorite Canadian attraction.
It is also the newest Canadian attraction, having only opened in July of 2021.
NIAGARA PARKS POWER STATION + TUNNEL
THE "SPECIAL" POWER STATION AT NIGHT TOUR (7PM-10PM)
This clip represents Niagara Falls running down the wall and out across the floor.
If you pay close attention you might see people in yellow ponchos running behind the falls.
More waterfalls running down and out across the floor.
The human shadows on the wall represent all the power plant workers over the years.
At the end of the show we headed over to take the elevator down to the tunnel.
At the end of the tunnel you'll find yourself outside at the base of Horseshoe Falls.
We headed back up the tunnel and elevator to watch the 30-minute lightshow one more time.
It's hard to see in the video,
but these ripple effects are following people's footsteps around the power plant floor.
These lighting effects are also following people's footsteps around the floor.
This video clip represents the end of the Ice Age and the creation of Niagara Falls.
The guy in this video was a bit dramatic pretending to surf the water on the floor.
This clip represents the Niagara River flowing through the power plant and generating electricity.
Near the end of the show the lights once again seem to follow people around on the floor.
As a fitting conclusion to not only this blogpost, but our visit to both the United States and Canadian sides of Niagara Falls, we'll leave you with this full 5-minute video of the fireworks show that goes off promptly at 10:00PM every night of the year in front of the falls.
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