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 …
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 …