Restoration of the C&O Canal through Georgetown, a project being funded by the National Park Service, gets underway early next year, dry-docking the guided tour boat until 2025. But, tours will still ...

WASHINGTON — A uniquely D.C. activity is making a comeback. For the first time in 10 years, you'll soon be able to tour the C&O Canal in Georgetown by boat. The first boat tours began in 1971, when ...

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — A huge project to restore the historic C&O Canal in Georgetown recently reached a milestone – water began flowing in certain areas for the first time in about two years. That water ...

D.C. Fire and EMS said a man’s body was recovered from the C&O canal early Sunday morning near the Key Bridge. The rescue service arrived at the canal near Water Street in Northwest D.C. around 9 a.m.

When John Quincy Adams first broke ground on the Chesapeake and Ohio (better known as the C&O) Canal in 1828, the hope was that the 185-mile route would serve as a vital trade path between Maryland ...

Relying on cellphone signals at times to track visitors, state and local tourism officials say they have been able to use some of the most advanced measuring concepts to gauge tourism on the ...

The exhausted bray of hardworking mules. The subtle lap of water against barge. The rhythmic plodding of metal horseshoe on hard-packed mud. Built between 1828 and 1850, nearly 78 miles of the ...

In a final push to stop construction of a pipeline under the Potomac River, approximately 50 people gathered outside the National Park Service office in Hagerstown on Monday to deliver 9,000 ...

The sun was low as the D.C. monuments came into sight, and we knew that our adventure was nearly complete. It had begun 15 days earlier at the western end of the Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) Canal National ...

After a weekend-long journey, an 80-foot-long, 12-foot-wide, $1.5-million boat was spotted for the first time yesterday in the newly flowing Chesapeake & Ohio Canal in Georgetown. After three years of ...