Fort Niagara/Niagara Falls

We couldn't come to this part of the U.S. and not see Niagara Falls. Unfortunately, we were disappointed. It was hot, later in the evening, and busy with tourists. The approach from the American side is very commercial. Today we spent the day at Fort Niagara. A beautiful place with less than 10 million visitors per year. (Niagara Falls has that many visitors in a year-most of which are here in July!) It was still hot but fewer people. I am now reading the classic Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimor Cooper. This book was written by a New Yorker in 1826. It is fiction and takes place during the war of 1812.

The fortress shown is called the "French Castle".