Reviews: North Tonawanda Gateway Harbor Park

Reviewed by: Anthonyohio Zehe , TRYST, on Sep 13, 2024
Vessel Type: Sail
LOA: 27'
Draft: 3.5'

Rating: 4

plenty of wall space to tie up, plenty of electric pedestals.
on the north side, restrooms are close to the Webster bridge. there is a train bridge to the West that seems to run pretty regular.

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Reviewed by: Tony Green on May 28, 2024
Vessel Type: Power
LOA: 26'
Draft: 3.0'

Rating: 4

Very nice stop. We stayed on the north side, western end, close to the office and restrooms. Electric, water, basic bathrooms, with showers, open to the public during the day and locked with a code at night. We arrived on the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend, and easily found a spot. Roaming dockhands took our payment and were available all weekend, but weekday hours vary. Busy and noisy until the holiday crowds went home, especially east of Delaware St. In front of the Dockside Bar & Grill. RIght in town, close to restaurants, parks and excellent walk/bike paths on both sides of the canal. For some reason, our bathroom code didn't work the morning we left, and the office was closed, but we would stay here again..

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Reviewed by: D. Hudson on Jul 27, 2021
Draft: 0.0'

Rating: 5

They also take credit card now.

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Reviewed by: Bill Mcmahon on Jul 22, 2021
Vessel Type: Power
LOA: 40'
Draft: 3.5'

Rating: 4

There are really two separate operations here. The north side is North Tonawanda Gateway Harbor while the south is Tonawanda Gateway Harbor. They are two different municipalities.

The north side has newer docks and are better staffed and maintained. It has low docks along the whole length. There are power/ water pedestals along most of it, except for the extreme wester end. The north side seems to have all the good restaurants, but not much else.

The south side has older high walls to the east with power/water pedestals, a floating dock in the middle with no pedestals and a low wall to the west of the Ellicott Creek with power/water pedestals, which is where we stayed. The water didn't work there, but did on the east wall, presumably due to the construction going on on the street above Overlook Park We chose this side because it is a little more isolated from all the restaurant/bar activity than the north side and is closer to a good supermarket, stores, and laundromat which are all on the south side. The south side dockmaster's house also has laundry, but only one machine.

This area is a very busy place, especially on weekends, but we saw several spots to dock on a Sunday afternoon. The docks really seem to fill up with day trippers around dinner time.

Be CAREFUL approaching the Delaware Avenue (middle) bridge. With all the boat traffic to pay attention to, while also looking for dock space, it was quite easy to inadvertently go under the north side of the bridge which is quite a bit lower than the charted height of the south side.

We were there for 3 days and never saw the (south side) dockmaster, so our stay was free :).

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