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Chippewa River State Trail is a 26-mile urban-rural rail trail in western Wisconsin that follows the path of the Chippewa River.The trails runs from the spot of the confluence of the Chippewa with the Eau Claire River, at Phoenix Park in downtown Eau Claire), meeting up with the Red Cedar State Trail near Red Cedar), to Durand
Looking downstream toward downtown Eau Claire, from the footbridge on the east end of Banbury Place, Jan. 31, 2006. The Eau Claire River is a tributary of the Chippewa River in west-central Wisconsin in the United States. [1] It is one of three rivers by this name in Wisconsin. Via the Chippewa River, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed.
Diary of Chippewa River Trip in 1868, C. H. Cooke, published in Eau Claire Leader Telegram in 1917. Cooke describes his canoe trip up the river from Eau Claire during the spring log drive of 1868. "Early Lumbering on the Chippewa", Vinette, Bruno, and William W. Bartlett, Wisconsin Magazine of History, 1926, Wisconsin Historical Society ...
In 1923 the Marathon County Park Commission bought 60 acres (24 ha) around the dells of the Eau Claire, establishing its fourth county park. Charles Ramsdell, a landscape architect from Minneapolis, planned the initial development of the park, which included trails, a picnic grove, and a concession stand, keeping in mind the County Park Commission's directive to not "replace the natural and ...
Old Abe State Trail is a 19.5-mile (31.4 km) paved multi-use rail trail in Chippewa County, Wisconsin, USA. [ 1 ] The name commemorates Old Abe , [ 2 ] a bald eagle that was captured in 1861 by Ahgamahwegezhig, a Native American man, near the South Fork of the Flambeau River .
Eau Claire Dells. The Eau Claire River is a river in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is a tributary of the Wisconsin River. The Eau Claire River originates in western Langlade County and flows into Marathon County. The Eau Claire River flows through "Dells of the Eau Claire" then to Wausau before it converges into the Wisconsin River just north ...
Feb. 22—EAU CLAIRE — Rebuilding a mile-long stretch of Jeffers Road on Eau Claire's north side may take more than one year of construction. Coordinating the project's schedule around other ...
Phoenix Park is a public space in downtown Eau Claire, Wisconsin, located on a former brownfield site at the confluence of the Chippewa River and the Eau Claire River. It covers approximately 9 acres with approximately 1/2 mile of riverbank frontage. [1] The park serves as the trailhead for the Chippewa River State Trail. The park also offers a ...