A paved lakefront walkway runs past brick warehouse fronts and the iron Aerial Lift Bridge.
What Canal Park looks like
Lake Avenue South runs between brick warehouse blocks lined with round headed windows and ground floor arcades. The , at 394 Lake Avenue South, rises eight storeys of unbroken brick with the same window bays repeating the length of the block. Across the street, tops out at three storeys, its Douglas fir timbers and two foot support columns still standing behind a ground floor arcade of restaurants and a hotel lobby.
At the foot of the street, the spans the ship canal between two steel towers, its horizontal deck slung low across the gap. Raised, the deck climbs clear of a 135 foot channel, opening the canal to lake freighters passing beneath. Moored sailboats sit in a small marina on the inner side of the canal, and the floating ship museum is docked a short walk south along the water.
A paved lakewalk runs along the water past the bridge, with iron lamp posts and benches set against a low stone seawall. The sits at the foot of the bridge on the mainland side, and farther along Harbor Drive the and the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center face the marina. On the breakwater across the canal, a black steel tower stands close to the bridge. A shorter lighthouse marks the pier farther out toward open water.
Shot in Canal Park
The 2025 Lifetime thriller Murder at the Lighthouse used the Duluth South Breakwater Inner Light for its close up and interior shots. The production filmed in the Duluth area over eleven days in the fall of 2024, using the privately owned tower at the foot of the Aerial Lift Bridge for those shots.
Murder at the Lighthouse, 2025
Murder at the Lighthouse used the tower for close up shots of the lantern and for scenes set inside it. The lighthouse stands on the south pier a short distance from the bridge, on the Park Point side of the canal. Street View
Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward is brick warehouses from the 1890s to the 1920s, converted into shops and artist lofts. The Milwaukee River runs along the district's western and southern edges, giving a water frontage behind some of the brick fronts. There is no canal or lift bridge here, so keep the frame on the brick warehouse blocks and the river edge rather than a water crossing. The open lake itself sits past newer buildings beyond the historic core, not directly behind these warehouses. Try searching brick warehouse lofts now.
Hawthorne Bridge in Portland, Oregon
The Hawthorne Bridge is the oldest operating vertical lift bridge in the country, its steel truss deck rising the same way the Aerial Lift Bridge's does over open water. It was built in 1910, two decades before Duluth's own bridge was rebuilt as a lift span. Hawthorne Bridge is painted green with red trim rather than Duluth's bare steel. Its riverbanks are not lined with brick warehouse blocks either, so hold the frame tight on the lifting span itself. Try searching vertical lift bridge now.
Fells Point's waterfront runs on Belgian block paving past brick rowhouses and a historic markethouse, with Baltimore Harbor open beyond, a loosely similar maritime tourist edge to Canal Park's own converted warehouses. Fells Point's waterfront is lined with brick rowhouses rather than warehouse blocks, and its Belgian block streets read differently from Canal Park's boardwalk and asphalt. Keep the shot on the open harbor rather than the building fronts. Try searching Belgian block waterfront now.
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