At the head of the Lewistown Narrows a section of the Juniata branch of the Pennsylvania Canal opened in 2008 as a park. The Juniata branch linked the waters of the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers to Hollidaysburg, 127 miles to the west, as part of Pennsylvania's attempt to compete with the Erie Canal. The uphill course of the canal was augmented by eighty-six locks and twenty-five aqueducts. At this site is Lift Lock No. 13, with preserved wooden lock gates, and a restored section of canal. Also on the site is a cross-gabled stone building constructed in 1860 as the headquarters for an iron-mining operation that also housed the lockkeeper. The lock house will become a museum of canal history. The towpath has been converted to a 1.5-mile hiking trail.