List of canals in Massachusetts

This list is intended to contain all significant canals and aqueducts in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA. It includes both vanished waterways and those that still exist.

• Blackstone Canal, Grafton ^[1]
• Broad Brook Canal, Ludlow
• Cambridge canals
  • Broad Canal
  • Lechmere Canal
• Cape Cod Canal, Sagamore
• Fort Point Channel, Boston
• Hampshire and Hampden Canal, Hampshire and Hampden Counties
• Hecla Canal, Blackstone
• Holyoke canals
  • First Level Canal
  • Second Level Canal
  • Third Level Canal
• Lowell canals
  • Eastern Canal
  • Hamilton Canal
  • Lawrence Wasteway
  • Massachusetts Wasteway
  • Merrimack Canal
  • Merrimack Wasteway
  • Northern Canal
  • Pawtucket Canal
  • Western Canal
• Long Pond Canal, Lakeville
• Madaket Ditch, Nantucket
• Mattakeset Herring Creek, Edgartown
• Middlesex Canal, Middlesex County
• Mill River Diversion, Easthampton
• Mother Brook, Dedham
• North Canal, Lawrence
• Northfield Mountain Tailrace Tunnel, Millers Falls
• Salem Beverly Waterway Canal, Beverly
• South Hadley Canal, South Hadley
• Turners Falls Canal, Turners Falls

References

1. "Blackstone Canal". National Park Service. Retrieved June 17, 2025.