Is your town/city on a river?

the Maumee River, Swan Creek, Ten Mile Creek.....oh hell, we've got at least a half dozen of them running thru town, all emptying into Lake Erie, downtown. :grin:
 
We've got two ponds on our property, but haven't felt the urge to swim in them. Lots of crawdads and frogs. Not to mention the ducks, geese, and assorted weeds. They're nice to look at (the ponds, not necessarily the weeds), but we have a little pool out in the front yard for cooling off. Or we'll head out to one of the many lakes in the region.
 
We have the L.A. river, which I would have never called a river growing up. After the flood of 1914 is was channelized/paved for flood control. So all that cement for years was just a canvas for graffiti artists, until the last several years where they've let the parts of river to return to a more natural state with brush growing, fish returned (not native species), people kayak in sections now. They don't call it a restoration, but rather habitat enhancement. But it's more of a river now. We also have the San Gabriel river which you can travel on the bike path from the mountains about 20 miles to the beach.

We also have a natural creek called the Arroyo Seco coming down from the mountains and going through Pasadena where it's also channelized and turns into a "wash." But the section in the foothills (near JPL) is beautiful. I sometimes ride my bike from my house to the creek/woods during my lunch break. The best part is that most people around here either don't know about it or never go there.

But when I want to go stream fishing for trout I drive up to the Eastern Sierras. Everything's nicer at 10,000 ft elevation.
 
We have two creeks. One of them turns into an open sewer in the summers because this city is too kind to transients who show up mistakenly expecting Boulder to be the promised land of weed jobs for crusties. The other one is tiny and only grows beyond a trickle in spring when the mountain snow melts.
 
The Hudson River is about 15 miles east of me, and Montgomery sits in a loop of the Wallkill river, which feeds out of the Hudson and into the Delaware, which is about 20 miles west of here...
 
Lake Michigan is 5 minutes away....small pond on property not sure I will swim in there though

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I live 5 miles or so from The Platt River. There is no way I would swim in it.
 
My town is right on a bend in the Connecticut River. There are some parts you can swim in, but the currents are pretty strong. On the other side is the Salmon River which is shallower, but has a few nice spots to take a dip. There’s also a pretty good sized lake, Lake Pocotopaug. It’s a big feature of the town which used to be a resort town. It’s great to swim in early in the summer, but unfortunately in the last decade or so it’s developed an algae bloom that happens later in the season. They think it’s mostly due to fertilizer run-off.
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With @dmn23 on the Rio Grande. Will add that we have "the Bosque," which means that +/- 1/2 to 2 miles of woods/nature are preserved on either side, with a great bike path and wildlife, etc. Up where I live, you 'go down to the Bosque' at the end of the dirt roads in Corrales on summer nights to skinny dip in the Rio Grande.

New Mexico is the fucking bomb.
 
Yes. Several different lakes, rivers, streams, etc....are all within a few minutes walk/drive from my house.
They don't call it the "Lakes Region" for nothing.

Merrymeeting Lake is my local (and much less crowded than Winnipesaukee in the summer), but both are crystal clear.
Hell, I'd probably drink out of Merrymeeting without worrying too much about it.



You know where I live, @Tiltsta .
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My current one, not really. Helsinki is mostly scattered around a couple of bays, the city centre is sort of lodged in on a peninsula. The current city is mostly an 19th century project though, the oldest buildings were situated at the mouth of a river quite a bit north of the current city centre.

Both cities I've lived before were. Gouda is on the fork of two major rivers and was an important place in medieval times, Rotterdam is a giant harbour on the Meuse.
 
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