List of canals in the United States

Transportation Canals in operation

• Augusta Canal
• Cascades Canal
• Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
• Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
• Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
• Dalles-Celilo Canal
• Delaware Canal (Pennsylvania)
• Delaware & Raritan Canal (New Jersey)
• Erie Canal (New York)
• Illinois and Michigan Canal
• Gulf Intracoastal Waterway including the Galveston and Brazos Canal
• Louisville and Portland Canal
• Portage Lake Canal
• St. Clair Flats Canal
• Saint Lawrence Seaway, (borders Canada) including the Saint Mary's Fall Ship Canal
• Sturgeon Bay And Lake Michigan Ship Canal

The United States also constructed the Panama Canal on territory it controlled.

Abandoned transportation canals

• Bellows Falls Canal
• Blackstone Canal
• Cayuga and Seneca Canal
• Champlain Canal
• Delaware and Hudson Canal
• Des Moines Rapids Canal
• Hennepin Canal
• Hocking Canal
• Little Falls Canal
• Miami Canal
• Miami and Erie Canal
• Middlesex Canal
• Milan Canal
• Ohio and Erie Canal
• Oswego Canal
• Pawtucket Canal
• Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal
• Sandy and Beaver Canal
• Santee Canal
• Savannah Ogeechee Canal
• South Hadley Canal
• Wabash and Erie Canal
• Walhonding Canal
• Whitewater Canal

Irrigation canals

• All-American Canal
• Coachella Canal
• Inter-California Canal

Lynn Canal in Alaska and Hood Canal in Washington are natural inlets.

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