List of Canals in The United States - Transportation Canals in Operation

Transportation Canals in Operation

• Augusta Canal (Georgia)
• Cal-Sag Channel (Chicago)
• Canaveral Barge Canal (Merritt Island, Florida)
• Cape Cod Canal (Massachusetts, part of the ICW)
• Cape May Canal (New Jersey, part of the ICW)
• Cascade Canal (Oregon)
• Cayuga–Seneca Canal (New York)
• Champlain Canal (New York)
• Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (Maryland and Delaware, part of the Intracoastal Waterway)
• Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, part of the Illinois Waterway
• Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal (partially active)
• Dismal Swamp Canal (Virginia and North Carolina, part of the ICW)
• Duluth Ship Canal (Minnesota)
• Erie Canal (New York)
• Gowanus Canal (Brooklyn, New York)
• Great Lakes Waterway (borders Canada), including the Saint Marys Falls Canal
• Harlem River Ship Canal (New York)
• Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal
• Industrial Canal (Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, New Orleans)
• Intracoastal Waterway, includes several independent canals
  • Galveston and Brazos Canal, see also: Houston Ship Channel
  • Corpus Christi Ship Channel
• Lake Washington Ship Canal (Seattle)
• Louisville and Portland Canal (Kentucky)
• Mississippi River – Gulf Outlet Canal (Louisiana)
• Morris Canal (New Jersey)
• Oswego Canal (New York)
• Point Pleasant Canal (New Jersey, part of the Intracoastal Waterway)
• Port Townsend Ship Canal (Washington)
• Portage Lake Canal (Michigan)
• Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel (California)
• St. Clair Flats Canal
• St. Lawrence Seaway (New York into Canada)
• Shinnecock Canal (New York)
• Soo Locks (Michigan)
• Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal (Wisconsin)
• Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway (Mississippi/Alabama)

The United States also constructed the Panama Canal on territory it controlled.