List of canals in the United States
From Academic Kids
The following is a List of canals in the United States:
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Transportation Canals in operation
- Augusta Canal
- Cal-Sag Channel (Chicago)
- Cascades Canal
- Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
- Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, part of the Illinois Waterway
- Dalles-Celilo Canal
- Delaware Canal (Pennsylvania)
- Delaware & Raritan Canal (New Jersey)
- Erie Canal (New York)
- Gowanus Canal (Brooklyn)
- Great Lakes Waterway, (borders Canada) including the Saint Mary's Fall Ship Canal
- Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal
- Intracoastal Waterway including the Galveston and Brazos Canal and Grand Dismal Canal
- Lake Washington Ship Canal (Seattle)
- Louisville and Portland Canal
- Portage Lake Canal
- St. Clair Flats Canal
- Sturgeon Bay And Lake Michigan Ship Canal
- Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
The United States also constructed the Panama Canal on territory it controlled.
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Abandoned transportation canals
- Allegheny Portage Railroad
- Bellows Falls Canal
- Blackstone Canal
- Cayuga and Seneca Canal
- Champlain Canal
- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
- Chenango Canal
- Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal (only partially completed)
- Cross-Florida Barge Canal (partially completed)
- Delaware and Hudson Canal
- Des Moines Rapids Canal
- Genesee Valley Canal New York
- Hennepin Canal
- Hocking Canal
- Illinois and Michigan Canal
- Little Falls Canal
- Miami Canal
- Miami and Erie Canal
- Middlesex Canal
- Milan Canal
- Morris Canal (New Jersey)
- Ohio and Erie Canal
- Oswego Canal
- Pawtucket Canal
- Pennsylvania Main Line of Public Works
- Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal
- Sandy and Beaver Canal
- Santee Canal
- Savannah Ogeechee Canal
- Schuylkill Navigation
- South Hadley Canal
- Union Canal
- Wabash and Erie Canal
- Walhonding Canal
- Warren County Canal (Ohio)
- Whitewater Canal
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Irrigation canals
- All-American Canal
- California Aqueduct
- Central Arizona Project Aqueduct
- Coachella Canal
- Colorado River Aqueduct
- Inter-California Canal
- Los Angeles Aqueduct
Lynn Canal in Alaska and Hood Canal in Washington are natural inlets.
