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New River Trail: Carroll County; Buck Dam Buck Dam Road Byllesby Dam Fries Junction Bridge: SR 606 (Fries Road) Fries: 1959 [32] Fries Dam Grayson County; SR 94 (Riverside Drive) 2011 [33: US 58 / US 221 (Grayson Parkway) Baywood: 1979, 1999 [33
The 75-foot (23 m)-high dam was built in 1910 by H.M. Byllesby & Company to impound the Cannon River for hydroelectric power. Its nameplate capacity is 1.8 MW. [1] [2] Byllesby, a former employee of both Edison and Westinghouse, formed what would become Northern States Power in 1909. [3]
Lake Byllesby is a 1,432-acre (580 ha) artificial lake on the Cannon River in Dakota and Goodhue counties, in the U.S. State of Minnesota.The lake was formed as a result of construction of the Byllesby Dam by the H.M. Byllesby & Company, which would later become Northern States Power Company for hydroelectric power generation. [1]
The spring runoff brings class IV and V rapids. Several commercial outfitters offer guided river trips. New River Gorge National Park and Preserve contains numerous trails for hiking and mountain biking, as well as over 1400 established rock climbs. [20] The New River is spanned near Fayetteville, West Virginia, by the New River Gorge Bridge ...
The Cannon River is a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows 112 miles (180 km) from Shields Lake [3] near Shieldsville to Red Wing in the U.S. state of Minnesota, where it joins the Mississippi River. It drains a watershed approximately 1460 square miles (3,780 km²) in size.
Minnesota Valley State Trail is a 27-mile (43 km), multi-use trail in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area that runs parallel to the Minnesota River from the cities of Belle Plaine to Shakopee. A 10-mile (16 km) segment of the trail from Chaska to Shakopee is paved. Allowable trail uses include hiking, biking, horseback riding, cross ...
The 124-foot tall hydroelectric dam, which is on the Broad River, about 25 miles from Asheville, is operated by the town of Lake Lure, according to the National Inventory of Dams. Its maximum ...
The New River Mountains are part of a region extending southwards from the southeast of the Black Hills of central Arizona. The region contains mesas, hills, and mountain peaks; the region is bordered on the west by the Black Canyon, where the Agua Fria River flows south towards Phoenix, and on the east, canyons where the Verde River also flows south to enter the Phoenix valley.