{"id":13522,"date":"2021-06-07T06:37:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T10:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=13522"},"modified":"2021-07-04T23:34:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T03:34:01","slug":"biking-along-the-mississippi-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=13522","title":{"rendered":"Biking along the Mississippi River"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the absolute pleasures of cycling in the northern regions of Lanark County is to enjoy the many views of the Mississippi River – from Carleton Place through to Morris Island where the river empties into the Ottawa River. Here are some photos capturing the beauty of the river…<\/p>\n

Mississippi River flows out of the Mississippi Lake — an excellent spot to relax is at Riverside Park Beach in Carleton Place.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Picturesque Carleton Place Town Hall<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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View from the Ottawa-Valley Rail Trail in Carleton Place<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Entering Appleton<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Peaceful Appleton<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Leaving Appleton — looking back upriver towards Carleton Place<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Entering Almonte — the historic Old Town Hall<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Almonte’s popular riverside restaurant patio<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Looking upriver from the OVRT bridge in Almonte<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The beautiful waterfalls in Almonte (photo op!)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The Blakney Rapids — great place to take a dip<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Blakney Rapids — looking back upriver towards Almonte<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The infamous Pakenham five-span bridge (photo op!)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Galetta (The City of Ottawa’s western-most community.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Morris Island (just east of where the Mississippi drains into the Ottawa River)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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To see more on cycling, pedal through the By George Journal menu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chris George, providing reliable PR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer or experienced communicator? 613-983-0801 @<\/em> CG&A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>. And yes, Chris also <\/em>would rather be cycling\u2026 #bikealmonte<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the absolute pleasures of cycling in the northern regions of Lanark County is to enjoy the many views of the Mississippi River – from Carleton Place through to Morris Island where the river empties into the Ottawa River. Here are some photos capturing the beauty of the river… Mississippi River flows out of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13522"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13916,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13522\/revisions\/13916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}