DESTINATION NIAGARA FALLS

Niagara Falls, Ontario benefits from the fact that both falls, the American and Horseshoe, can be best seen from the Canadian side of the river, thus presenting the city one of the major tourist attractions of the world. The natural spectacle brings in millions of tourists yearly.

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DISCOVER NIAGARA FALLS: American Falls, Butterfly Conservatory, Clifton Hill, Fallsview Indoor Waterpark, Horseshoe Falls, Journey Behind the Falls, Konica Minolta Tower, Maid of the Mist, Marineland, Niagara Falls Aviary, Niagara Fallsview Casino, Niagara Skywheel, Skylon Tower, Whirlpool Aero Car,

AMERICAN FALLS The American Falls is one of three waterfalls that together are known as Niagara Falls on the Niagara River along the Canada-U.S. border. Unlike the much larger Horseshoe Falls, which lies almost completely in Canada, the American Falls is completely within the U.S. The falls receive approximately 10% of the flow from Niagara River ...

BUTTERFLY CONSERVATORY The Niagara Parks Butterfly Conservatory is a butterfly zoo operated by the Niagara Parks Commission. It is located about 10 minutes north of Niagara Falls on the grounds of the Niagara Parks Botanical Gardens & School of Horticulture. The conservatory has over 2,000 tropical butterflies from over 60 different species ...

CLIFTON HILL Clifton Hill is one of the major tourist promenades in Niagara Falls leading from River Road to intersect with Victoria Avenue. The street contains a number of gift shops, wax museums, haunted houses, restaurants, hotels and themed attractions. For visitors, particularly families and teenagers, it is a major amusement area and centre for night life...

FALLSVIEW INDOOR WATERPARK Fallsview Indoor Waterpark officially opened on May 2006. More than 200,000 US gallons of water are used to operate this facility. There is a water oasis spanning 125,000 square feet that features high-speed water slides among other water-related attractions. An interactive Atlantis-themed aquatic play area, along with an indoor wave pool and six swimming pools ...

HORSESHOE FALLS The Horseshoe Falls, also known as the Canadian Falls, is a waterfall on the Niagara River. It is located between Terrapin Point on Goat Island in New York State, and Table Rock on the Ontario side of the falls. The Horseshoe Falls is observable at a direct angle from the Canadian side. The Maid of the Mist boat offers tours which approach the base of the falls ...

JOURNEY BEHIND THE FALLS Journey Behind the Falls is a year round attraction located in the Table Rock Center beside the Canadian Horseshoe Falls. Journey consists of an observation platform and series of tunnels near the bottom of the Horseshoe Falls. The tunnels and platform can be reached by elevators. The tour is unguided and visitors have the option of using radios ...

KONICA MINOLTA TOWER The Konica Minolta Tower Centre, opened in 1962, is located in the Fallsview district of Niagara Falls, Ontario and was the first of the modern observation towers built near the brink of the Falls. For more than 100 years, there had been various, but much smaller, towers built throughout the area with most of them being wooden structures ...

MAID OF THE MIST The Maid of the Mist is a boat tour of Niagara Falls which you can take from either the Canadian or US sides. Each boat is named Maid of the Mist, followed by a Roman numeral. The boat starts off at a calm part of the Niagara River and takes its passengers past the American and Bridal Veil Falls, then into the dense mist of spray inside the curve of the Horseshoe Falls ...

MARINELAND Marineland is a themed amusement and animal exhibition park in the city of Niagara Falls. Owing to its proximity to the falls and natural park areas and its blend of animal attractions and rides, it is one of the main tourist destinations in Niagara Falls, Canada. The park first opened in 1961 as Niagara Game Farm, without any of the current marine attractions or rides ...

NIAGARA FALLS AVIARY The Niagara Falls Aviary, also known as Birds of the Lost Kingdom, is an aviary (or bird zoo) located in the tourist district of Niagara Falls. The building previously housed the Niagara Falls Museum. Re-opened as a free flying aviary in May 2003, it is now one of the largest indoor aviaries in the world, encompassing approximately 45,000 square feet ...

NIAGARA FALLSVIEW CASINO The Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada opened publicly on June 10, 2004. This $1 billion complex with a belle époque theme overlooks the Horseshoe Falls and is one of the most prominent features of the Niagara skyline. The site was once the transformer station building for the Ontario Power Company station at the foot of Horseshoe Falls ...

NIAGARA SKYWHEEL Niagara SkyWheel is a 175-foot tall Ferris wheel in the middle of Clifton Hill, Niagara Falls. Its 42 Swiss-manufactured fully enclosed passenger cars are heated in the winter and air conditioned in the warmer months and each can carry eight people. The ride is approximately 12 to 15 minutes long, giving passengers views of the Falls, and is open all year ...

SKYLON TOWER The Skylon Tower, in Niagara Falls is the tallest structure that overlooks both the American Falls and the larger Horseshoe Falls from the Canadian side of the Niagara River. Construction of the Skylon began in 1964 and was officially opened in 1965 by New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Ontario Premier John Robarts at a cost of $7 million to construct ...

WHIRLPOOL AERO CAR The Whirlpool Aero Car or Spanish Aero Car is a cable car located in Niagara Falls, Ontario that transports passengers over a section of the Niagara River referred to as the whirlpool. The Aero Car was conceived by J. Enoch Thompson, and built in 1913 by The Niagara Spanish Aerocar Co. Limited. It opened in August 1916 ...

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