D) Downtown Eau Claire (PnP)

From East Madison Street (immediately East of the bridge over the Chippewa River) head north on Forest Street to the City of Eau Claire Public Works / Utility buildings (red concrete buildings on west side of street). Either: Option#1) Park in large dirt parking lot just south of the first red building. Walk along river up to the Ledge Drop. --OR-- Option#2) Turn left into 2nd driveway (between 1st and 2nd red building -- do not take first one-lane driveway south of the first building which is for Community buses). You will go past gas pumps and turn right onto the road nearest the river. You can park right next to the ledge drop or drive up to the dam. Xcel has built fisherman access stair cases down to the river. Since this is done as a 'park-and-play', with no shuttle necessary, we have defaulted the directions to show routing from your home zipcode. You can enter your home address or other starting location in the box (you can enter address/city/state, just city/state, just zipcode, or lat/long in any format) to get driving time, distance, and directions to this location.