The Lower Chippewa River
The Chippewa River south of Eau Claire is a meandering, braided river with broad curves, multiple channels, wide beaches, sandbars, oxbow lakes, and a large delta. This section of the river includes a number of pieces of public land, the largest in the delta where there is the Tiffany Bottoms State Natural Area and the Nelson-Trevino Bottoms State Wildlife Area. Bottoms are low areas in river floodplains that are often flooded. Upriver from the delta is the the Dunnville Bottoms that encompasses the Dunnville Barrens State Natural Area and the Dunnville State Wildlife Area.
Looking south towards downtown Eau Claire, taken from the High Bridge
The river flowing downstream from Holte's Landing at Caryville.
The Chippewa flowing southwest a few miles downstream from the Caryville Bridge
The river flows on to the sea, Dunn County
Quiet evening at the Dunnville Bottoms
Dunnville Bottoms sunset
Bottomlands, Dunnville Bottoms
Savannah, Dunnville Bottoms, Waubeek Mound in the background
Crepuscular rays, Dunnville Bottoms
Animal tracks, Dunnville Bottoms
Cady Creek, a tributary of the Eau Galle River, a tributary of the Chippewa
Cady Creek flowing through a coulee
Eau Galle River dam in the town of Eau Galle
Evening in Durand
Sunset over the river in Durand
Road that will drop over the bluff into the Tiffany State Wildlife Area in the Chippewa River delta
Butterfly and flowers next to a slough in the delta
Slough in the Tiffany State Wildlife Area in the delta
Delta taken from atop Five-Mile Bluff
On the ice on Lake Pepin, a wide spot of the Mississippi backed up by the Chippewa River delta
Winter afternoon, WIsconsin Highway 35 bridge, the last roadway bridge on the river