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Santeetlah Dam to Lake Calderwood Rafting on the Cheoah River |
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| Santeetlah Dam to Lake Calderwood Rafting Info |
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Class IV, V
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| Trip Length: |
9.25 miles |
| Current Streamflow |
937 cfs @ 02/08/2010 09:00 PM |
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May, June, July, August, September, October, November
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| Season Comments: |
When there is water on specific release dates |
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| Towns near Santeetlah Dam to Lake Calderwood Rafting |
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 Cheoah River review, by a rafter., Nov 29, 2008
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Reviewer: Chip Collins
from Waynesville, N.C. USA
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The Cheoah River starts with three and 1/2 miles of Class III/IV water, and definitely changes character for the last 3 miles, with Class IV and low Class V drops and rapids near the end of the run. This is where you find the big drops with names like M.O.I., Chaos Theorem, Big'Un, a.k.a., Bear Creek Falls, and Python. Near the end you have Yardsale, a.k.a., Corndog Canyon. The river bed is strewn with strainers, stobs, and brush, - some still growing from when volunteers cleared the riverbed of growth after 80 plus years of being de-watered. The run is 9 miles long, fairly continuous, and you should be in good shape to raft here, even if you choose to do so with three good outfitters now rafting the Cheoah River commercially. Most of the run is visible from Highway 129.
Don't come here if you rafted the Yough and Gauley from the floor of the raft, it isn't that kind of river. Tight, fast, nonstop, - yep, I get my adrinaline buzz there.
It's great fun!
(I am a guide.) |
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