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.

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