Corktown Footbridge

Ottawa’s unofficial spot for love padlocks.
If you’re going to add a love lock to the collection, you are supposed to put your names, a date of significance, and throw away the keys. Combination locks DO NOT have keys!
Great scenic spot, if you have never been.
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The Corktown Footbridge (also known as the Somerset Footbridge) is the only footbridge over the Rideau Canal in Ottawa.
It’s a fairly new structure that makes life just a bit easier for students, shoppers, tourists and cyclists in Ottawa. Sure, you can use the Laurier Street bridge or go further south to Pretoria but this connects the Ottawa U campus to the vibrant and residential areas of Centretown.
The bridge is well lit at night and even has nifty colour changing lights.
This is also an excellent spot to snap a photo of the Rideau Canal or pose for group shots of Ottawa. (In fact one of my Unilocal profile photos was taken on this bridge.)
If you’re rollerblading this bridge be aware that the eastern exit off of it is all downhill and quickly skirts into traffic on Colonel By Drive. Not that I’ve ever almost crashed into a car or anything…