Brasstown Creek - Brasstown Road to Yonah Lake


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Brasstown Creek,

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Brasstown Road to Yonah Lake

Class V+
3.8 Miles
Avg Gradient 100 fpm
Max Gradient 265 fpm

Heath styling the second drop


Heath styling the second drop
Photo of Heath Miller by John Michael @ Chattooga hit 12 fee

Gauge Information

Name Range Updated Level
EIGHTEENMILE CREEK ABOVE PENDLETON, SC 950 - 100000 cfs 1y124d10h16m 4.5 cfs (rc= -0.0 )


River Description

Just a series of 4 or 5 REALLY BIG waterfalls.

They have all been run. Look for Overflow Creek to be high before Brasstown is running. The usual routine is to run the falls then hike back up to the cars at the put-in. The final two miles to the lake are pretty flat. There is good road access where the creek hits the lake.
Some boaters hike back out after running the second or third waterfall, because the major drops are almost at the parking lot. The first drop can be a real back breaker.

The first two big falls. The one in the foreground is about a 30 footer. Photo by Brad Roberts.


StreamTeam Status: Not Verified
Last Updated: 2005-07-31 11:28:09

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Brasstown Creek

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Brasstown Creek

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Heath styling the second drop

Detail Trip Report Edit  Heath styling the second drop  Brasstown, (362.24KB .jpeg)

Once we ran the shit

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Right below the 30 footer

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Horizon line after the 30 footer

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30 footer

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Gauge Information

Gauge Description:

The nearest on-line gauge for a similar sized river that will see rain from stroms that fall on Brasstown is unfortunatly Eighteenmile creek. This gauge is being used as a corrolation gauge but do not count on it to be extreamly accurate. Local rain patterns can vary.
Visual by looking at the first falls.
The Chattooga gauge has a poor correlation with Brasstown Creek because the former will peak hours after Brasstown is already too low to boat.

Gauge Information

Name Range Updated Level
EIGHTEENMILE CREEK ABOVE PENDLETON, SC
usgs-02186699 950 - 100000 cfs 1y124d10h16m 4.5 cfs (rc= -0.0 )

RangeWater LevelComment
950.0000-100000.0000 barely runnable-high runnable

Report - Reports of Brasstown Creek Brasstown Road to Yonah Lake and related gauges

Reports give the public a chance to report on river conditions throughout the country as well as log the history of a river.

Reports

When River/Gauge Subject Level Reporter
Brasstown CreekBrasstown Road to Yonah Lake [SC] 1st waterfall n/a Logan James
Brasstown [ ] Heath styling the second drop Chattooga hit 12 fee Scott McCorvey
Brasstown [SC] n/a boof or die
Brasstown Creek [SC] Brasstown Creek n/a Brad Roberts
5y54d02h46m Brasstown CreekBrasstown Road to Yonah Lake [ ] Once we ran the shit n/a Scott McCorvey

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User Comments


2005-06-27 00:35:44 (1596 days ago)
Chris GormanDetails
I hiked this section today...there was no water but we measured the falls and checked the landing
zone...The vertical falls is not 30 feet but 22 feet. And it has rocks that are pretty close to the
landing zone..the landing zone was about 4 feet to 6 feet deep. the farther away from the lip the
deeper. This thing drops over a hundred feet in a little over the distance of a football field...it
is steep.
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