Day 8 - Sep 20 Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON Home

This will be my last day on the road, it has been a fun and exciting week especially with the Rolling Through America - Finger Lakes Motorcycle Tour.  I can now say that I have visited and motorcycled around 6 of the Finger Lakes in New York State, saw some interesting small towns and these have made an impression on me - "I want to go back", and I will on Thanksgiving weekend (Oct 5-8).

Leaving Auburn at 9am sharp I am off to the Best Buy store in Rochester, what I need is a 2 port USB charger to charge the GoPro Camera, there are three components and they all need charging at once it seams.  Anyway a quick hop onto I-90 and an hour later I am there, and they have what I want too.


The Lake Ontario State Parkway is a 35.05-mile (56.41 km) parkway along the southern shore of Lake Ontario in western New York in the United States. The western end of the highway is at a partial interchange within Lakeside Beach State Park in Carlton, Orleans County. Its eastern terminus is at an intersection with Lake Avenue in the Charlotte neighborhood of the Monroe County city of Rochester. 

The parkway mainline and the connector to NY 18 are both part of the Seaway Trail, a National Scenic Byway that extends along the shores of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario from northwestern Pennsylvania to the North Country of New York. The Lake Ontario State Parkway passes through mostly open and rural areas, except near Greece and Rochester, where the land surrounding the highway is more developed. It serves mostly as a connector between Rochester and several lakeside state parks and communities. From its western terminus to the Rochester suburbs, the parkway is the closest continuous roadway to the Lake Ontario shore.

The highway was one of several parkways built as part of a 145-mile (233 km) expansion to the state's parkway system in 1944. Construction of the Lake Ontario State Parkway began in the late 1940s, and the first section of the route—linking Hamlin Beach State Park to NY 261—opened in the early 1950s. The remainder of the highway through Greece and Rochester was built in stages during the 1950s and early 1960s, while the section between Lakeside Beach and Hamlin Beach State Parks was constructed in the early 1970s. The original plans for the highway called for it to extend as far west as Niagara Falls; later proposals moved the terminus to the north end of the Robert Moses State Parkway near Fort Niagara.  This section has not been built and I doubt if it ever will.

Oak Orchard Harbour, NY - Lighthouse

My brief stop would be at the Lighthouse at Oak Orchard Harbour on Lake Ontario.

After a brief stop in Lewiston, NY it was time to cross back into Canada and home at 2:30pm in time for a late lunch.

Just a super trip!
Sunny, +10c to 20c
Day: 294km

Trip total: 1,926km