Concord River – June 7, 2020
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| At the put-in |
I met the crew today at the Lowell Street Bridge in Concord. Usually we take out at the Lowell Street Bridge after shuttle trips down the Sudbury or Assabet Rivers, but today we would be putting in there for a round trip on the Concord.
The Concord River arises at Egg Rock at the convergence of the Sudbury and Assabet Rivers just upstream of the Lowell Street Bridge. The river flows generally north for about 16-miles until its convergence with the Merrimack River in Lowell. For most of its course the river meanders through swamps and wetlands, but the last mile in Lowell is a class III (IV) rapid.
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| Old North Bridge |
We put in at around 8:00 for an early morning trip with 3 canoes (Jonathan, Erik and Julie) and 3 kayaks (Al, Joe and Conrad). Just a little ways downstream we paddled through the Minuteman National Historic Park and under the Old North Bridge made famous in the Battle of Concord during the Revolutionary War. We continued another 3-miles downstream into the Great Meadows Wildlife Refuge before turning around just shy of Route 225.
On the way back, Jonathan decided to pull out his
small 1-hp "putt-putt" engine for test run, so I caught a ride. Not bad - beats paddling!
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