Brunsweiler,

B) Beaverdam Lake to Hwy.13 (10.3 miles)

Gauge Information

River Description

From below the dam at the put-in, the river takes off at a fast clip downhill. When rock walls begin closing in, get out and scout on the right, there's an intersting small vertical falls (about 6'-8') just downstream. The run-out below this falls is somewhat congested and tends to collect wood. The river deflects off a cliff face below here and heads into another cascading drop of about 8'. From here to the Spring Brook Rd bridge are several active boulder bed drops.

Below Spring Brook Rd, the river is still pretty much non-stop action with extended stretches of class II-III boulderbed interspersed by three major drops in the class III to IV range depending on flows. The first of these is a bouldery cascade that sometimes collects wood, the second a fluming drop through a bedrock sluice and the third is a good sized slide sequence; very entertaining. Below the bigger drops the river continues to move at at fast clip though mostly class II. Be careful at a section of braided channel were the left hand channels have been known to have barbed wire strung across them. Though difficult to catch "up", the Brunsweiler is truly one of the gems of Wisconsin's South Shore rivers.

Alternate put-in at Spring Brook Road avoids more difficult upper section. Alternate take-outs at Cemetary (Eades) Rd (4WD) or Hwy C to shorten the lower run.

The section from Beaver dam lake to Spring Brook Rd is often referred to as the "Upper Brunsweiler" and the section from Spring Brook Rd to HWY 13 is often called the "Lower Brunsweiler".

AW members may click here for Part 1 of an article from the AW Journal, way back in 1981!
AW members may click here for Part 2 of the article.

In addition to this reach, the article also describes the following:

Michigan's
Upper Presque Isle,
Lower Presque Isle,
Middle Black,
Lower Black,
Upper Silver,
Lower Silver,
Falls, and
Rock,

and Wisconsin's
Montreal, W.Fk., and
Montreal Canyon.