Colorado Without the upper part of the Rio Grande, Creede would not exist. As a practical matter this section of the river and its tributaries carved the valley that Creede nestles in. For me exploring the many streams near town flowing down the mountains to feed the Rio Grande including Bellows, Farmers and Willow Creeks […]
Category: Rivers
Leitha/Lajta River
Austria and Hungary My first day trip while studying abroad in Vienna was to a town called Eisenstadt. Along the way the train there made a stop at a down called Bruck an der Leitha (literally Bridge on the Leitha River). As with the Susquehanna I’ve viewed this river in several distinct locations. I’ve seen […]
Susquehanna River
New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland I’ve seen the Susquehanna River in three different locations. The Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, NY, where I interned in the summer of 2017, lies on the north end of Otsego Lake, which is the source of the river; a bridge 8 miles south in downtown Cooperstown touts itself as the […]