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Little Miami River
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The Little Miami River (also called the Little Miami Scenic River) is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 106 mi (170 km) long, in southwestern Ohio in the United States. It has been designated a National Wild and Scenic River.
It joins the Ohio River east of Cincinnati, and is named for the Miami, an Algonquian-speaking Native American people who lived in the region during the early days of white settlement.
Historically, the Little Miami formed the eastern boundary of the Symmes Purchase and the western boundary of the Virginia Military District.
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The Little Miami River is a National Scenic River. A series of state and local parks and bike trails have been built along the river, including the Little Miami Bike Trail, the Buckeye Trail, and Little Miami Scenic State Park. Most of these trails have been built along the abandoned rail grades that run along the river. The Ohio to Erie Trail project, under construction, aims to link these trails to other trails statewide to create a single bike trail from Lake Erie to the Ohio River.
The Little Miami is also popular among canoers and anglers. There are several canoe liveries along its course and the smallmouth bass fishing in the river is among the best in the state. For a river its size and considering that it drains mainly agricultural land, the water quality of the Little Miami River is excellent.
The following places, towns, and points of interest are located on the Little Miami starting at the headwaters in Clark County and proceeding down the river to it's mouth on the Ohio River.
- Clark County - Headwaters of river
- Greene County, Ohio
- Clifton
- John Bryan State Park and Clifton Gorge
- Bellbrook
- Spring Valley
- Warren County
- Waynesville
- Corwin
- Caesars Creek Gorge - mouth of Caesar Creak leading to Ceasar Creek Gorge and Lake.
- Oregonia
- Mathers Mill - canoe livery, public access
- Jeremiah Morrow Bridge - Interstate 71 bridge crossing over the river valley
- Fort Ancient - canoe livery, public access
- Morrow - canoe livery, mouth of Todds Fork tributary
- South Lebanon
- Kings Mills - historic Peters Cartridge factory
- Fosters - historic settlement & public access
- Clermont County east side of river, Hamilton County west side of river
- Hamilton County
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- Lunken Field - Cincinnati Municipal Airport is along the bank of the river
- Ohio River - mouth of the Little Miami River
- Buckeye Trail
- Loveland Bike Trail
- Ohio to Erie Trail
- Clifton Gorge State Nature Preserve
- Little Miami, Inc. (LMI), a non-profit conservation group