Welland Canal Lookout

Great place to watch the ships go through the canal and learn about the history of the area. Clean washrooms, great exhibits, and extremely friendly staff. It’s Completely free and they have good COVID precautions. I highly recommend you check it out, especially when there’s a ship coming through. You can call them or check their twitter for the daily ship schedule.

Cool place to watch the ships coming through the tides can also visit St Catharines museum at the same time

A very nice place to get oxigenated these days of isolation due to the virus. Nice views and if you are lucky you might watch a ship in the excluses. Everything else is closed due to the lockdown in the region

This is a must stop if you are nearby. It's even better if a ship is passing through. Fortunately when we were there one was just going down the canal just before it came to the lock, so we had plenty of time to get there and watch it come through. There are several websites where you can see the ship schedule so you can time your visit to match with a ship passing through.

Nice large parking lot. Saw a decent amount of ships in a short time between lock 1 and 3. Would definitely recommend knowing approx. timing of when ships would be locking up or down if you want to visit the museum/watch ships in the same time frame.

Was a really great experience, the kids loved it also which is always a plus.

Cool place to just sit at look out at the canal and boats passing through. Great view. Nice park area. Lots of trees and shady. A lot of parking as well.

Really enjoyed the experience took my little one who is 3 and a half she got to see the Lock filling with water and the ship rising even a couple crew members up top waved to her :)

Enjoyed spending time watching two boats as they passed by coming and going through the lock. We didn't realize the museum was there, would have spent more time if we had it, especially since we love lacrosse so much! It took about 30 minutes to watch the one boat enter and leave, quite mesmerizing to watch!

The Welland Canal Lock 3 features an elevated lookout platform to watch ships transiting the lock. I checked ship schedules ahead of time to make sure I would have a great experience. Unfortunately the ship I planned to watch arrived ahead of schedule and I missed it; and the next two were delayed by hours so I never got to watch a big cargo vessel! But the day was nice for October, and the museum attached to the lock is really well done. Two negatives to the experience. First, no boat - luck of the draw I guess but probably would have increased the star rating. Second, if you are into photography as I am, there is no place to really observe that is not looking through a chain link fence or metal bars. A viewing platform that provides better viewing, or perhaps cutout areas in the fence for photography would be nice.