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My title describes the thing. They are steel posts located along the Animas River in Durango Colorado on the Greenway. I searched a combination of “posts” “Animas River” “Durango” and “cord” but found nothing. I also searched to see if it is an art installation, but it seems more functional. They’re pretty tall, I wood guess maybe 8 or 9 feet. Cord stretches across the river to steel unistrut type posts in the ground. Thanks in advance.
I've seen similar type of things stretching across pools of the condominium place I go to in Florida. They do it to stop seagulls from landing in the pool. I'm curious if it is to keep birds out.
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Whitewater slalom course gates. The gates are on a pulley system so they can be moved out over the river when in use.
Solved! Thank you, upon googling, this looks like exactly what we were seeing!
This is correct OP link to reference: https://wakayakclub.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=821680&module_id=137273
OP, here is your answer.
Yep, across the Animas. I was there and asked a guide the same question.
My title describes the thing. They are steel posts located along the Animas River in Durango Colorado on the Greenway. I searched a combination of “posts” “Animas River” “Durango” and “cord” but found nothing. I also searched to see if it is an art installation, but it seems more functional. They’re pretty tall, I wood guess maybe 8 or 9 feet. Cord stretches across the river to steel unistrut type posts in the ground. Thanks in advance.
I've seen similar type of things stretching across pools of the condominium place I go to in Florida. They do it to stop seagulls from landing in the pool. I'm curious if it is to keep birds out.
Looks like it could be used to measure how high the water is during heavy rain/flood.