Canoeing Minnesota’s Cannon River
24 Apr
We were pleased to see Minnesota’s Rochester Post-Bulletin publish THIS story about reporter David Lind’s paddle down the Cannon River to the Mississippi.
We’re partial to the Cannon, we must admit, since a member of the Canoeing.com team lives in the Cannon Watershed and considers the state-designated Wild and Scenic River his home-waters.
Lind describes a two-day paddle down the river — through the lakes that compose its upper section, past the sandstone cliffs and old mill ruins in its middle miles, and beneath the towering bluffs of the lower river, near its confluence with the Mississippi.
A great paddlers’ map of the Cannon — called the Canot by the French because of all the native canoes plying river during the Fur Trade era — is available, HERE, thanks to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
