Places to canoe

[alingo2001]

A couple of us are looking for an area around Smyrna and Mboro to canoe. We've looked at the Stones River and Stewarts Creek but would like to know if there are any obstacles on them like dams. We were gonna put in at Gregory Mill park on Stewart's Creek but there was a damn there and not really any place to put in. There is a canoe launch by the airport but we don't know where we could take out at.

[DRM]

No specific help, but I sometimes zoom in on the sat images on google maps (or even zillow) to follow waterways and see if they might be passable.

Good luck!

[alingo2001]

No specific help, but I sometimes zoom in on the sat images on google maps (or even zillow) to follow waterways and see if they might be passable.

Good luck!

I did that this morning for the Stones River. Looks passable for the part near here.

[mhm2a]

I am pretty familiar with the stones river. We have canoed the main part of the stones river from Lascassas Bridge (96 Hwy.) To Mona Boat Ramp on Jefferson Pk. (Hwy. 266) towards Smyrna, TN. This is a spring time trip with few portages but watch out for downed trees if the water is up. In the summer you will be dragging bottom more than not.

A good short sunday afternoon trip would be from the Dam @ Walter Hill (Hwy. 231 North) to Mona Boat ramp on Jefferson Pk. It would be a couple hours if you were fishing or throwing back a few cold ones.

Let me know if you have any questions about the area and safe places to leave a rig to pick up the boats.