The Whitewater Canal Trail includes about 9 miles of a planned 13-mile route, with the unfinished Feeder Dam section intended to complete the four miles to the US 52 trailhead near Metamora. Mile markers measure distance from the Laurel Feeder Dam, and from here the trail follows the canal past three old canal locks to Metamora, a historic canal town with a working grist mill and a covered-bridge aqueduct. Beyond Metamora, the Whitewater River Valley opens onto farm fields, wooded areas, and notable Southern Indiana scenery, leading after about two miles to the Twin Locks, then in another .75 miles to a wooden bridge where a small aqueduct carries the canal over Goose Creek. Near the Yellow Bank Trailhead, a side trail leads to Lock 21, and beyond it are a habitat restoration project in the basin of a canal-era ice pond and relics of the old highway. For now, the main trail ends just past the eleven-mile marker, though plans call for completion to Brookville, where two small sections are open to the public: the Billy Jean Jobe Trail on 7th Street about two blocks west of Main Street, and Tecumseh Landing at the south end of town near the Family Dollar Store, where a short walk reaches a gravel beach on the Whitewater River. Just over the hill stands the Laurel Feeder Dam, the only surviving one of the seven original feeder dams built for the Whitewater Canal. After a railroad was built along the canal in the 1860s, freight and passenger boats no longer used the canal, but water-powered mills between here and Brookville still depended on it, so the hydraulic company maintained the dam to keep water flowing until operation became unprofitable in the early 1920s. The canal then declined into little more than a muddy ditch and the dam fell into disrepair. In the early 1940s, the Whitewater Canal Association made temporary repairs, and later the state took ownership of the dam as part of the Whitewater Canal State Memorial and rehabilitated it beginning in the late 1940s. Since then, the state has maintained the dam, which keeps water flowing in the canal for Metamora's grist mill and onward to Yellow Bank Creek.