The Lake Erie Seaway Trail Center (LESTC) opened in 2005 as a tourism and visitors’ center for the western segment of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail system - from the Grape Belt near the Pennsylvania Border along Lake Erie to Niagara Falls and Lake Ontario. Located in Hamburg, New York on the shores of Lake Erie, approximately 12 miles south of downtown Buffalo, the Center was created through the redevelopment of the historic Wanakah Water Company building on NY Route 5. The LESTC is owned by the Town of Hamburg and is operated by the Friends of the Lake Erie Seaway Trail Center, a not-for-profit 501c(3) corporation.                                          Online Calendar of Events