http://bikeredding.com Wanna go on a Ride Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:14:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://bikeredding.com/oak-bottom-water-ditch-trail-map/ http://bikeredding.com/oak-bottom-water-ditch-trail-map/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:47:26 +0000 Neal Barrow http://bikeredding.com/?p=447 Part of this trail once provided water to mining operations in the Clear Creek area during the gold rush era in the 1850s. Why would a water ditch be constructed next to a lake? (Remember the lake itself was not …

]]> Part of this trail once provided water to mining operations in the Clear Creek area during the gold rush era in the 1850s. Why would a water ditch be constructed next to a lake? (Remember the lake itself was not constructed until the 1960s.) Over 100 years ago a series of ditches and flumes criss-crossed these lands to move water. This water system allowed miners to work year-round. Some of the ditches were filled in to make pathways like this one.

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