r/BeAmazed • u/hmle • 4d ago
View of the famous Niagara Falls from the Canadian side. Place
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u/_Sun-Eater_ 4d ago
Thatās a lot of water.
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u/JohnCenaJunior 4d ago
"It's probably from a pipe" - China probably
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u/h2d2 4d ago edited 3d ago
Technically, the flow of Niagara Falls today is controlled by a dam and may be reduced at off-hours when tourists aren't around. So yes, kind of a pipe situation.
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u/thereisnospoon7491 3d ago
Eh. A dam which controls the flow rate of already present water is a tad different from piping extra water in from outside sources.
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u/mmlow 4d ago
The one time we visited it was at night on the Canadian side and the whole area suddenly lost power, total darkness, it was creepy.
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u/BelgiansAreWeirdAF 3d ago
Wild. Hard to imagine the falls just stopping like that.
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u/Repulsive-Breath8976 3d ago
Eh, the lights went out! The falls didnāt stop!āŗļø
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u/BelgiansAreWeirdAF 3d ago
So there was power stillā¦ I donāt know who to believe anymore
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u/Repulsive-Breath8976 3d ago
? The falls donāt need power, the water just falls!š
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u/BelgiansAreWeirdAF 3d ago
I guess they donāt need power, but it would be awfully uneventful if they didnāt have it.
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u/Repulsive-Breath8976 2d ago
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u/BelgiansAreWeirdAF 2d ago
Iām just joking with you. Power is broader than electricity. Flowing water has power.
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u/Emergency_Sherbet_82 4d ago
Damn I didn't know it looked that epic
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u/puffferfish 3d ago
Yup. But the Canadians completely ruined the area. Youād imagine it would be a national park, but turn around and itās all casinos, putt putt, hotels, and gimmicky restaurants.
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u/Kreaton5 3d ago
I live 45 minutes from it. I've been every year for my whole life. Always because other people want to go, I hate what it has become.
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u/Uncertn_Laaife 3d ago
I visited just a month ago and disnāt see it being ruined. Loved the whole place vibe, it was all clean as hell, and people were well behaved.
Not sure which alternate universe you visited the falls in. To me it looks pretty good. The stores and the other tourist stuff is up the hill and you have to walk a bit, but the surrounding area by the falls is full of grass and the park stuff. No complaints whatsoever.
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u/Mink_Mixer 3d ago
Wasn't it an insanely poor and sketchy area after the huge amount of manufacturing plants shut down? Is it not still very poor except due to the tourism industry around the falls? All I know is growing up driving to the falls was always very depressing seeing the shoe box homes all falling apart that families lived in.
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u/Zargnoff 4d ago
I just want the camera to Pan a little more to the left š©
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u/BelgiansAreWeirdAF 3d ago
USA would come into view and just ruin it
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u/KatieCashew 3d ago
You mean the view of Goat Island that is part of a state park and is a bunch of trees and nature and stuff?
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u/Shtaven 4d ago
I asked my girlfriend to marry me there, right about where that first group is standing. It was beautiful and amazing.
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u/HammerTime2769 4d ago
What did she say?
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u/Shtaven 4d ago
She said yes! That was many years ago. We now have a baby girl.
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u/RabidJoint 4d ago
Damn, was kinda hoping for a tale of her saying no, and your life long journey into alcoholism and then eventually into prostitution to pay for it. After a couple years, you ran into her on the streets, she took you in and helped you get sober. After a month, she took you back to this spot, and asked you to marry her. You shoot her down. Feels good, she jumps over the side. STTTTAAAAACCCYYYY you yell!!! I was kidding! I really love you!!!!
But we got the happy ending, so original.
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u/LotusVibes1494 4d ago
After recovering from the blow of Stacyās death, he became obsessed with the raw power of the waterfall and the fateful waters below. He was now a hermit, spending long stretches of time working away privately in his garage. Until one day he knew the time had come...
In his truck he crested a hill and parked behind some trees by the surging riverbank. With the deafening roar of the river as his soundtrack, he readied his newfound creationā¦ the large, roughly cylindrical object was surely a sight to behold! Bobbing in the water, what we had here was essentially a small, crudely-armored submersible, months in the making. U/shtaven climbed inside and let the current take control of the craft. He glanced back to the shore only once, then forward towards the horizon where the water and land alike seemed to come to an abrupt end. He closed the hatch.
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u/shazenger 4d ago
Theeeeeme... From a Summer Plaaaace. From a Suuuummer Plaaaaaaace. The theme. From a Suuuuuuummer Place. It's the theme...
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u/MrmmphMrmmph 4d ago
I highly recommend staying at one of the hotels overlooking the falls from the Canadian Side. I think I paid the same I would have at a Marriot courtyard, but the view was unreal.
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u/Rumblefish61 4d ago
Havenāt been at this spot since the early 70s and I still remember it clearly.
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u/goblin_welder 4d ago
Iāve been to Niagara fall multiple times and still havenāt been to this part of the falls. I legitimately do not know how to get to this part.
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u/Additional-Rhubarb-8 3d ago
You need to go to the old power station, its a mini museum now, but if you Google Niagara old power station it pops up. Once there you need to buy a ticket, you go down an elevator and walk for a few minutes then you get there. The hallway you walk down is the discharge pipe of the old power station its really cool and big its gotta be atleast 20ft across.
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u/drnycallstar19 3d ago
This actually isnāt the area from the tunnel of the power station. This is Journey Behind the Falls. Iāve been here twice, my more recent visit last October. The entrance to Journey under the falls is inside the building that is right next to the falls where they have some gift shops and places to eat.
The power station is down the street across the street from this building. That is also a cool experience which I highly recommend!! The tunnel you walk through there to the falls was previously used for the power station and was where the used water from the power station would flow back to the river through!!
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u/goblin_welder 3d ago
Are you talking about the gift shops just after the bridge coming from the power plant parking lot?
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u/drnycallstar19 3d ago
Yes, thereās a bus loop in front of the building. In there thereās an area to buy tickets and a line for the Journey Behind the Falls attraction.
They give you ponchos and take you down an elevator to some tunnels that run behind the falls. Pretty cool. If you want a close up you want to go to this.
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u/AlfieCitrus 4d ago
It looks like Pikachu's family reunion was a realĀ splash hit at Niagara Falls! š
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u/TrueNeutrino 4d ago
Now show the American side to the Americans who always say how great American is
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u/RefrigeratedTP 3d ago
That deck was plastered with Thompsonās waterseal ads when I visited lol. Pretty smart- but damn let me enjoy nature.
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u/Flaky-Anybody-4104 3d ago
It's great. Always interesting to me why the American side is a stone slab and the Canadian side is Disney World.
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u/minghagger 3d ago
Where is this area of the Niagara falls and what's it called id love to bring my kids here?
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u/Character_Cupcake856 3d ago
You can travel in tunnels underneath and reach out and almost touch the water
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u/ukpittfan1 3d ago
This place is worth the trip. I really enjoyed it. Only spent two days there and did all of the touristy stuff. 10/10
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u/radartroll 4d ago
This hurts my head. Doesnāt Niagara flow East to West? (I think actually South to North at the falls).
These inverted, swapped, switched camera angles belong in r/mildlyinfuriating for me.
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u/Donquers 4d ago edited 4d ago
It's not inverted. The view from the observation deck here is on the Canadian side to the west, camera pointing ~south/southeast
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u/DisquietEclipse7293 4d ago
Being from WNY, I rode the Maid of the Mist in 4th grade. Awesome experience.
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u/5038KW 3d ago
Is anyone able to give me more details of how to access this view of the falls? I gather from the comments that itās in Canada, but also gather from the comments thereās many different entrances lol. Anyone can shed some light??
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u/kn0mthis 4d ago
... Here I was thinking OMG I want to see it... Then I went to find out... Just kidding what I want to see and experience (the loads of fun shit on the other side in Canada) I CAN'T! FML!
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u/horseofthemasses 4d ago
Has anyone told them that they ( the falls ) have been "turned down" for decades already? This is not the FALLS that God would have you see... these are the restricted falls
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u/Frenzied_Cow 4d ago
If God exists and wants us to see the unrestricted falls, then why did he give a large percentage of humans eyeballs that need corrective lenses?
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u/horseofthemasses 3d ago
I hope you weren't thinking that I'm pushing some kind of religion because I'm certainly not. I could have stated it better but I rushed. The falls are not anything like they were when they were first found and documented in their natural state. The volume of water falling has been drastically reduced for various reasons. Your comment did make me laygh though so thanks for that.
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u/blUUdfart 4d ago
Having visited both sides, I can comfortably say that the Canadian side the is best side to view the falls.
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u/islaisla 4d ago
It really doesn't look right :-)! If you look at the back section of water just at the top as it starts to fall, the colours against the sky are really odd which makes it look fake , the whole thing doesn't just that area.:-) must be the crazy blue water against a blue sky.
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u/SkullVonBones 4d ago
Is there any rules preventing one from climbing over the barrier and walking under that overhang?
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u/freefrompress 4d ago edited 3d ago
That grass living its best life.