Lock 2 Park stands at a historic junction of the Champlain Trail and the old canal system at Waterford, where travelers can reach sites including Garret Field, Old River Lock #4, the Waterford Rural Cemetery, the Northside Business District, the Waterford Historical Museum and Cultural Center, the Side-Cut Locks, the Waterford Harbor Visitor's Center, the site of the Button Fire Engine works, the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers, and Peebles Island State Park and Visitor's Center. The Side-Cut Locks, viewed in winter from the bed of the original Champlain Canal, extend through three lock chambers toward Waterford Harbor and the Hudson River. Built during the canal enlargement era circa 1860, these locks were the first gateway to the Canal System and, except for their wooden doors and operating mechanisms, remain as they were in 1860. Their original purpose was to move boat traffic between the Hudson River and the Champlain Canal, while today they serve as a spillway for excess water flowing into the Hudson River when Lock 2 on the Erie Barge Canal is operating. Old-time canallers called this area "The Crossroads" because boats entering the top chamber and turning right headed north to Lake Champlain, while a left turn linked with the original Erie Canal for the first two miles of its journey toward Lake Erie; similar Side-Cut Locks at West Troy, now Watervliet, handled westbound traffic, and every vessel using the canal had to fit these locks. Canal activity here included the tugboats Annex and Almira tied along the towpath north of the locks, with the Broad Street lift bridge allowing boats to pass below while other traffic crossed above and boat traffic holding the right of way. The W.C. Baxter, docked near Ever's Coal Dock, was the first tugboat specifically built to tow on the Old Champlain Canal, while the Annex was the first tugboat to tow successfully there; after its success, others followed, though the Baxter was the only new tug to work the canal system. The boat Wonder, from New York City, also passed under the lift bridge, with mules pulling it nearly to the next bridge beneath the high arch bridge at Division Street. The heavy movement of cargo boats awaiting entry reflected the scale of activity, while the Van Schoonhovens operated a mule barn and charged $0.25 per boat to pull them through the locks, with barn boss Fred Bass overseeing a locking. The Van Dervoort family owned and operated the tug Annex on the Old Champlain Canal and lived aboard a houseboat, the Rudder Grange, which sometimes housed eleven people; pictured aboard were mother Julia, daughter Beatrice, and brother Elmer, and in 1909 engineer William Van Dervoort prepared the Annex for a trip through the Side-Cut Locks and up to Lake Champlain.