From Niagara This Week:
Fresh from being wowed by the chefs at the Niagara Parks Commission and some of Niagara’s best wine, a group of travel writers from Canada and the United States got up close and personal with the mighty Niagara River recently.
After their meal at Queenston Heights Restaurant, the half-dozen writers from California, Washington, Georgia, Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio, along with a fellow writer from Calgary, took an elevator down 26 storeys to see the parks commission’s White Water Walk attraction, where the river is squeezed into a narrow crevice to create powerful rapids.
“It’s a Class 6 rapids,” the elevator operator told them. “It’s one of the deadliest in the world.”
The stop was one of several made on both sides of the Niagara border over two days, in the first-ever Binational Niagara Media Familiarization Tour. The trip was sponsored by the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership Corp. and the New York State’s economic development agency, in partnership with agencies on both sides of the border, including Tourism Niagara.