page_title: Capital Pathway
section_title: Rideau Canal Pathway
hierarchical_section_title: Capital Pathway / Rideau Canal Pathway
caption_attribution_description: English: The Rideau Canal in Ottawa Français&#160;: Les écluses sur le Canal Rideau à Ottawa, Canada, entre le poste d'éclusage d'Ottawa (gauche) et l'hôtel «Château Laurier» (droit). 中文: 麗都運河渥太華船閘段。左為渥太華船閘段控制中心，右為「Château Laurier」酒店。前方為渥太華河。
context_page_description: The Capital Pathway, also known informally as the Bike Path, is a 220-kilometre recreational pathway interlinking many parks, waterways and sites in Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec. Most of the pathway is paved, and allows an almost continuous route through the National Capital Region.
  The pathway, was mostly the work of the National Capital Commission, a crown corporation created in 1959. The trail, which includes the Rideau Canal Pathway, the Ottawa River Pathway, and the Rideau River Pathway extends in all directions to the limits of the city of Ottawa and extends northward into Gatineau Park's lakes.
context_section_description: The most well known of all the sections of the Capital Pathway is the Rideau Canal section. Its downtown location attracts tourists and residents, frequently used for walking, cycling, and running. It continues to be popular in the winter, as the Rideau Canal is widely known as one of the longest skating rinks in the world, with 6 to 8 km of skatable surface on most days in January.
  Its most northerly point is where the canal empties into the Ottawa River. Immediately beside the locks is the Bytown Museum. There actually are two separate paths, on each side of the canal. One encircles Dow's Lake and path users frequently cross to the other side near Carleton University, just south of the lake.
  The trail extends to Hog's Back Falls which also provides a crossing. This is the point where the canal meets the Rideau river and the trail continues on its east side until Mooney's Bay Park. South of that it resumes, continuing to Ottawa's south boundary.
caption: Rideau Canal
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