--- title: "Fort Erie – what to see, and every way to get there | Mixroutes" description: "How to get to Fort Erie from Rochester, Syracuse and Cleveland: every way compared, with today's quickest and its fare. Fort Erie is a town in the Niagara…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/fort-erie" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/fort-erie.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Fort_Erie%2C_Ontario_%282013%29.jpg" --- ![Fort Erie](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Fort_Erie%2C_Ontario_%282013%29.jpg) # Fort Erie Fort Erie is a town in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada. [Plan a trip to Fort Erie](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Fort%20Erie) [From Rochester](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Rochester&to=Fort+Erie) ## Every way there - Rochester → Fort Erie 111 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · $10–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/rochester-to-fort-erie) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Rochester&to=Fort+Erie) - Syracuse → Fort Erie 227 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · $20–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/syracuse-to-fort-erie) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Syracuse&to=Fort+Erie) - Cleveland → Fort Erie 276 km · quickest by road, 4h 8m · $25–35 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cleveland-to-fort-erie) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cleveland&to=Fort+Erie) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. The field note What is in and around Fort Erie, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move. [Read the note on Fort Erie](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fort-erie) What Fort Erie has - Y Scheduled flights Buffalo (BUF), 23 km - Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 26 timetable feeds for this country, 1 with real-time - N Ferries no crossing within 25 km - Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band - N Bike and scooter share no share feed known - N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. 42.917°, -79.017° The town is located at the south eastern corner of the region on the Niagara River, directly across the Canada–United States border from Buffalo, New York. It is the site of Old Fort Erie, which played a prominent role in the War of 1812. How locals move ## Getting around Fort Erie the local way - Get in and around The Scajaquada's Grant Street exit makes for a convenient route to Grant-Ferry, Grant-Amherst and Buffalo State College. - Get in and around From south to north, major crosstown routes on the West Side include: on the Lower West Side, Virginia Street, Porter Avenue, Connecticut Street, Massachusetts Avenue, and Hampshire Street; on the Upper West Side, West Ferry Street, Lafayette Avenue, West Delavan Avenue, and Forest Avenue; and in Black Rock and Riverside, Amherst Street, Hertel Avenue, and Vulcan Street. - Get in and around Grant-Ferry is the only place on the West Side where on-street parking is ever hard to find. - Get in and around Parking meters are in place on Grant Street between West Delavan Avenue and West Ferry Street, as well as on West Ferry for half a block in either direction from Grant. - Get in and around Beginning at the corner of Niagara Street and Busti Avenue, eastbound buses on Route #12 head northward along Niagara Street, proceeding eastward through the Upper West Side and Grant-Ferry via West Ferry Street. - Get in and around Best of all, for the vast majority of its length, the Shoreline Trail follows its own off-street right-of-way with no traffic to contend with — the exception is a short, unsigned stretch of 0.4 miles (700 m) along Busti Avenue and Niagara Street between Hampshire and West Ferry Streets, but the roadway boasts wide shoulders and sidewalks that provide a modicum of safety for cyclists. - Get in and around Aside from the bike paths and waterfront trails listed above, paramount among pedestrian-friendly West Side areas are the bustling Grant-Ferry commercial strip with its vibrant multiethnic street culture, as well as compact, charming Grant-Amherst. From [Wikivoyage: Buffalo/West Side](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Buffalo%2FWest_Side), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09. Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Erie%2C_Ontario), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons. --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/places/fort-erie, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt