great shot. looks like fun. there are so many people from the Falls and North Hill who spend their whole lives within walking distance of the Gorge that never come down here and just enjoy this place for what it is. Pack a picnic, come on down!

the footbridge was the location of many older photographs of the dam and spillway. the footbridge site is just upstream of butterfly rock, the south abutment still stands proudly among some trees and bushes, the north abutment rises from the curved shale wall just below the river trail. eroded earth (probably caused by the making/maintaining of the river trail) accumulated on the uphill side of the cut-stone pier and finally got heavy and forceful enough to literally push the top of the pier into the river. there are now many of the hand-cut blocks in the riverbed, and some have been taken, but they are extremely heavy... sb

Brave is the person who puts in to raft or kayak the river on that day!