Saturday, April 12, 2025

North Saskatchewan River, Quesnel Bridge to Dawson Park

On the Thanksgiving weekend, we float through downtown Edmonton to take in the autumn colours.


We put in below the Quesnel Bridge and the river was super clear.


The water was at summer levels so no gravel bars and we made it to Dawson par in about 2 hours (maybe 14km?) with little paddling.


The river was weirdly empty for a long weekend. Maybe we were just a bit earlier than most folks but we saw only one other boat (beached) the whole trip.


The colours were great.






The water was also super calm the whole way (no upstream breeze).








We pulled out just below the Rowland Bridge at Dawson Park.



Overall, a pretty and quiet trip that was mostly unremarkable.

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