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Niagara Falls, Ontario · 1905 Generator Hall · The Tunnel
Niagara Power Station Tour
Niagara Parks' own admission: the restored generator hall, a glass elevator 180 ft down and the 2,200 ft tunnel to a platform at the river below the Horseshoe Falls. Rated 4.7 from 302 reviews (October 2026).
- 4.7 / 5 302+ Reviews
- 2,200 ft The tailrace tunnel from the elevator to the river
- 180 ft The glass elevator's drop to the tunnel
- Free Cancellation
The Experience
What the Power Station Ticket Covers
The generator hall and its exhibits, the glass elevator, The Tunnel and the observation platform at the river, with a free audio guide; the night option adds the Currents show.
Highlights
- Access the Tailrace Tunnel by descending 180 feet in a glass-paneled elevator
- Marvel at the mighty Horseshoe Falls via an observation deck at the river's edge
- Explore a 2,200-foot long tunnel experience leading to view beneath the falls
- Complimentary immersive audio guides & optio
- Choose an interactive evening experience via the Power Station & Tunnel lit up at night
What's Included
- General Admission to Niagara Park's Power Station at Daytime or Nighttime (depending on option selected)
- Interactive exhibits within Power Station
- Entrance to 2,200-foot-long Tunnel under the falls experience
- Observation deck looking up at the falls
- Poncho to be provided for the observation deck
- Nighttime experience: Currents Light and Sound Show (if nighttime option selected)
- Nighttime: Illuminated tunnel and falls (if nighttime option selected)
Good to know: Niagara Parks is on the Canadian side of the falls · Niagara Parks Power Station is open year-round · Guests can stay as long or as short as they see fit. It is recommended to allocate 2 hours to see the Power Station & Tunnel · Children 2 and under are free with an accompanying adult · Not Included: Guided tours, Food and drinks
How a Visit to the Power Station Works
Pick a date and day or night, walk to the station on the Niagara Parkway, explore the hall, then ride down to the tunnel.
Pick a Date, Day or Night
Daytime hours are 10 am to 5 pm, and the night experience with the Currents show opens at 5 pm (October 2026). General admission is not timed at the station, and a ticket is good for one entry.
Walk to the Niagara Parkway
The station is at 7005 Niagara Parkway, between Table Rock Centre and the Floral Showhouse. WEGO's Green and Blue lines stop at both, and Falls Parking Lot A is next door.
Explore the Generator Hall
Eleven blue generators stand on the 600 ft floor, the first five from 1905. The audio tour is included; a guided Premium Tour costs extra.
Ride Down to The Tunnel
A glass elevator drops 180 ft to the 2,200 ft tunnel, which ends on a platform at the river below the Horseshoe Falls. Bring a light jacket and plan about two hours in all.
Photo Gallery
The Generator Hall, the Tunnel and the Falls
The 1905 generators, the tailrace tunnel and the view from the platform at the river.
Book Your Experience
Check Availability & Prices
Select your preferred date and time. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before departure.
Three Ways to Visit the Niagara Parks Power Station
The day ticket against the night ticket with the Currents show and the guided walk that adds the Skylon Tower. Prices and ratings as listed on GetYourGuide in October 2026.
| Feature | BY DAY Day ticket | AFTER DARK Night ticket | WITH A GUIDE Guided, with the Skylon Tower |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starting Price | From US$23/person | From US$27/person | From US$71/person |
| Rating | 4.7 from 302 reviews | 4.5 from 177 reviews | 4.5 from 124 reviews |
| When | 10 am to 5 pm (October 2026) | From 5 pm, last entry an hour before closing | A three-hour walk at the time you book |
| What you get | The generator hall, the glass elevator, The Tunnel and the platform at the river | The same, plus the Currents show and the falls lit up from the platform | The Skylon Tower deck, the daredevil exhibit, then the station and The Tunnel |
| Guide | Self-guided, audio guide included | Self-guided | A local guide in English |
| Good to know | The tunnel and platform are wheelchair accessible | The falls are lit, so the view is the night view | Not suitable for wheelchairs or strollers |
| Check Availability | See the Night Ticket | See the Guided Walk |
Other Ways to Do It
Tours That Include the Power Station
The night ticket, a guided walk from the Skylon Tower, a Skylon, boat and station walk, and an evening with dinner and the Illumination Tower.
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The Guide
A 1905 Generator Hall and a Tunnel to the Foot of the Falls
The station is self-guided and the tunnel is on the same ticket, so for most visitors the tour is the ticket. A guided walk earns its price when you want the hydro story told.
A Niagara power station tour is, for most visitors, a self-guided visit to the Niagara Parks Power Station on the Canadian side, and the way in is Niagara Parks’ own admission ticket. On GetYourGuide it is from US$23 a person, rated 4.7 from 302 reviews (checked October 2026): you walk the restored generator hall, ride a glass elevator 180 feet down, follow The Tunnel for 2,200 feet and step onto a platform at the river with the Horseshoe Falls upstream. The ticket’s calendar is on this page.
Check dates for the station and tunnel →
Pick by when you want to go and how much you want explained:
Power Station and Tunnel Ticket
The hall, the elevator, The Tunnel and the platform in daylight, with the audio guide. Children 2 and under go free.
Check dates →Tunnel at Night and Power Station
The Currents light and sound show in the generator hall, then the tunnel and the falls lit up from the platform.
See the night ticket →Skylon Tower and Power Station Walk
A guide, the Skylon Tower deck and the daredevil barrels first, then an hour in the station and an hour in The Tunnel.
See the guided walk →Prices and ratings from GetYourGuide, checked October 2026; operators change prices, so treat them as a guide, not a quote.
What the ticket covers
Regular admission covers the whole visit, and Niagara Parks suggests about two hours if you want The Tunnel as well as the hall.
- The generator hall. Eleven generators stand on a floor about 600 feet long, painted the blue they wore until the station closed in 2006. The first five were installed when it opened in 1905 and the last in 1924. Exhibits, a scale model of how the water ran through the plant and a life-size section of a penstock tell the story, and the bilingual audio tour is included.
- The glass elevator. It drops 180 feet down the old wheelpit to the level of the tunnel.
- The Tunnel. The station’s tailrace, the channel that carried spent water back to the river, 2,200 feet long. It opened to visitors on 1 July 2022, a year after the station itself.
- The platform. It sits at the tunnel’s exit portal, where the water once left the tunnel, and reaches out over the river with the Horseshoe and American Falls and the lower gorge in view.
A guided 45-minute Premium Tour of the hall costs extra; it includes the restored control room, which the self-guided visit does not. The Tunnel at Niagara Falls walks through the descent and the platform.
Two different tunnels
Niagara Falls has two tunnel attractions on the Canadian side, about 500 m apart, and they are easy to mix up. The Tunnel at the power station is the 2,200-foot tailrace that ends on a platform at the river below the falls. Journey Behind the Falls, at Table Rock Centre, takes you down 125 feet into tunnels about 130 years old that lead to portals behind the falling water. They are separate tickets. behind-the-falls-niagara.com covers Journey Behind the Falls in depth, and the Power Station, Journey Behind the Falls and the boat puts all three into one day.
Day or night
By day the platform gives you the falls and the gorge in daylight. The Power Station at Night ticket adds Currents: Niagara’s Power Transformed, a sound and light show of about 30 minutes that runs on a loop in the generator hall, then the tunnel and the falls lit up from the platform. On Niagara Parks’ calendar the night experience opens at 5 pm and closes at 7 pm on most weeknights and at 8 or 8:30 pm on Fridays and Saturdays, with last entry an hour before closing (read October 2026). The power station at night has the dates and the evening tours.
Tickets in brief
Niagara Parks lists regular admission at CA$33 for an adult (13 and over) and CA$21.50 for a child (3 to 12), plus 13% HST, with children 2 and under free; admission with the Premium Tour is CA$53 and CA$34.50 (October 2026). General admission is not timed, and a ticket is good for one entry. The 2026 Niagara Falls Pass in its Premium (CA$129) and Plus (CA$109) versions includes the station by day or night; the Classic pass does not, and all 2026 passes run from 20 April to 1 November 2026. Niagara tunnel tickets compares the window, the passes and the GetYourGuide ticket.
Getting there
The station is at 7005 Niagara Parkway, between Table Rock Centre and the Floral Showhouse, about 500 m upriver from Table Rock along the parkway, measured on the map. WEGO’s Green and Blue lines stop at both, every 30 minutes from November, and a 24-hour adult pass is CA$16. The nearest parking is Falls Parking Lot A, next to the station and open all year. From the hotels on Fallsview, the Falls Incline Railway runs down the slope to Table Rock for CA$10 a day.
The history in one paragraph
The building was the Canadian Niagara Power Company’s generating station, the first major power plant on the Canadian side of the river. Construction began on 23 May 1901, its generators first turned on 27 July 1905, and it ran until 2006, when Niagara Parks took it over and restored it as the only fully intact decommissioned hydroelectric plant of its era in the world, by Niagara Parks’ account. The history of the power station tells the story as you will see it in the hall.
The rest of a Niagara day
The station sits in the middle of the Canadian side’s attractions. Niagara City Cruises’ boats leave about 1.8 km down the parkway, the Skylon Tower is about 1.7 km away on foot, and the Skylon Tower and the power station compares the bundles that pair them. Coming for the day from Toronto, visit-niagara-falls.com compares the day tours, and from Toronto and the US side explains which ones reach the station. From New York State, the Rainbow Bridge is about 2.1 km from the station on foot; on the American side, caveofthewindsniagara.com covers Cave of the Winds.
Where to stay
The hotels on Fallsview Boulevard are a walk or an Incline Railway ride above Table Rock, the closest to the station. Clifton Hill and the streets around the Skylon Tower are livelier and a short WEGO ride away.
Hotels on Fallsview Hotels near Clifton Hill
How these facts were checked
Written 30 October 2026. The tickets’ prices, ratings, review counts and inclusions are from the GetYourGuide listings, read in US dollars on 30 October 2026. The station’s admission prices in Canadian dollars, the HST note, the Premium Tour, the generators, the hall’s length, the elevator and tunnel figures, the platform, the opening dates, the night experience, the accessibility notes and the address are from niagaraparks.com (the Power Station, The Tunnel, Power Station at Night and Currents pages, the station’s construction history and the 2022 news release on The Tunnel); the day and night hours from Niagara Parks’ own attraction calendar; the Niagara Falls Pass and the Incline Railway fare from its deals page; WEGO from its fares page and fall-winter timetable; parking from its parking page. All read in October 2026. The walking distances are measured on the map.
The Power Station and Tunnel Ticket
Niagara Parks' own admission: the generator hall, the glass elevator, The Tunnel and the platform at the river, at your own pace, by day or with the night show. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before, as listed in October 2026. Starting from US$23 per person.
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Niagara Parks Power Station FAQ
The questions people ask before a visit to the station and The Tunnel, answered in the first sentence and explained in the ones after.
Niagara Parks lists regular admission at CA$33 for an adult (13 and over) and CA$21.50 for a child (3 to 12), plus 13% HST; children 2 and under are free (October 2026). Admission with the 45-minute guided Premium Tour is CA$53 and CA$34.50. On GetYourGuide, Niagara Parks' own day ticket is from about US$23 a person with free cancellation. Niagara tunnel tickets sets the options side by side.
Yes: The Tunnel and its viewing platform are included with regular admission to the Power Station. A ticket is valid for one entry, so see the hall and the tunnel in the same visit. The Tunnel guide explains what you walk through.
The Tunnel is 2,200 feet long, about 670 m, and you reach it by a glass-panelled elevator that drops 180 feet. It is the station's old tailrace, the channel that carried spent water back to the river, and it ends on a platform at the river's edge with the Horseshoe Falls upstream.
Niagara Parks suggests planning about two hours if you want to explore The Tunnel as well as the generator hall. The guided Premium Tour inside the station takes 45 minutes on its own.
No: Niagara Parks says general admission does not have to be pre-booked and there is no time slot to pick. Guided tours can be booked ahead. Booking online still fixes your date and, on GetYourGuide, lets you cancel up to 24 hours before for a full refund.
Currents: Niagara's Power Transformed is a sound and light show of about 30 minutes in the main generator hall, running on a loop during the Power Station at Night hours and included in the night ticket. The night ticket also covers The Tunnel, with the Horseshoe Falls lit up from the platform. The night guide has the hours.
Yes: the station is open year round, by day from 10 am to 5 pm on Niagara Parks' posted calendar, closed on 25 December, with a posted closure from 14 to 20 March 2027 (read October 2026). Night hours are posted to 2 January 2027 so far. The winter guide covers what else is open nearby.
Yes: Niagara Parks says The Tunnel and the viewing platform are fully accessible, with benches along the way. A wheelchair is available at the station, first come, first served.
Possibly, on the platform: Niagara Parks says it can get chilly down there, suggests a light jacket and says to expect to get wet. The GetYourGuide day ticket lists a poncho for the observation deck. Access to the platform may be limited in bad weather.
The Canadian side: it is at 7005 Niagara Parkway in Niagara Falls, Ontario, between Table Rock Centre and the Floral Showhouse. From the US side, walk over the Rainbow Bridge; you need a passport or another WHTI-compliant document to cross. From Toronto and the US side covers the crossing.
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