Niagara Gorge is an long canyon carved by the Niagara River along the Canada–United States border, between the U.S. state of New York and the Canadian province of Ontario. However, on isolated occasions, world-class experts have been permitted to navigate the stretch. Tourists can traverse the rapids of the Niagara Gorge on commercial tours in rugged jetboats, which are based at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, at Lewiston, New York, at Youngstown, New York, and in midsummer at Niagara Glen Nature Centre on the Niagara Parkway in Ontario.
Matthew Webb, the first person to swim the English Channel, drowned trying to swim the rapids of the gorge as part of a publicity stunt in 1883.
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File:DSC 8739 (10596155586).jpg|The Niagara River flows into the gorge at the falls and over thousands of years carves the gorge through the Niagara Escarpment
File:Niagara Falls Whirlpool aerial view.jpg|The Niagara River whirlpool basin in Niagara Gorge.
File:Niagara Gorge Trail.jpg|Niagara Gorge trail near the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge.
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See also
- Niagara Whirlpool
- Whirlpool Rapids Incline