1600 visitors attended an opening ceremony, and 400 people rafted the 2.5 mile reach that has been rediscovered and/or enhanced by the removal of the Eagle & Phenix and City Mills dams and MWDG’s engineering design effort. Businesses such as a sandwich shop and general store benefited from visitors in town to ride the river or …
Here’s the announcement that the river park will officially ‘open’ in May, from the Ledger-Enquirer: After more than a decade of planning, construction, headaches and governmental red tape, you can now circle the day that the Chattahoochee River whitewater course flowing into downtown Columbus and Phenix City will open. Saturday, May 25, 10 a.m. The …
There’s an awful lot of acceleration around the re-engineering of the Lower Chattahoochee in Columbus. The City’s Facebook page keeps us up with local news and announcements about the course. https://www.facebook.com/Chattahoochee.River.Whitewater#!/columbusgawhitewater This has informed us that folks in Georgia are not only proud of the opportunity on the west side of the river. They’re investing on …
Uptown Columbus, the nonprofit organization that coordinates economic revitalization initiatives throughout the Central Business District, Riverfront and throughout Uptown has officially selected two whitewater rafting outfitters to offer commercial trips on the Lower Chattahoochee. Whitewater Express will run trips from the Alabama side of the river in Phenix City, and the Nantahala Outdoor Center will operate …
Joe Joe Jacobi, CEO of USA Canoe/Kayak, and an Olympic gold medalist, paddled a section of Columbus’ new whitewater course for the first time a few weeks ago, seeing the changes that have been completed since his first trip, prior to the modification of the Alabama channel and partial removal of the Eagle and Phenix …