0 a place or route where a boat must be carried, especially over land between two areas of water:
1 to carry a boat, either over land between two areas of water or through the water:
A trip from source to mouth is possible via the main channel but requires portages around levees and other obstacles.
At numerous portages, corduroy roads had to be constructed.
There are 13 portages totally about 7.6 kilometers of portaging.
Two different portages allowed nearly continuous travel by canoe among different watersheds of the region.
In pre-industrial times, water divides were crossed at portages.
Each used a separate rowboat on the water sections, and portaged using bicycle-trailer systems between waterways.
The lakes and portages route continued to be used regularly into the 1950s.
On the portages between the lakes, old vehicles were stationed.
