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As some of you may know, the Ohio Canal goes underground in downtown Akron, between old Locks 4 and 10, before re-emerging in the Cascade Locks Park area. The tunnel entrance is at old Lock 10 off the Towpath, and the elevation increase and waterfall here are old Lock 9.

I think that one of the biggest mistakes Akron made from a downtown planning perspective was to cover much of the Canal in the 1960s. Waterfronts are one of the most important functional and aesthetic features of a city center, and the mistakes of yesteryear have deprived us of an opportunity in the present. Regardless, the old Canal flows on, even through the dark and damp.