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1- First WMA Gate to Old Waters Creek Campground (Falls Section)

Class V
0.75 Miles
Avg Gradient 135 fpm

Waterfall


Waterfall
Photo of Unknown by Chuck Neese

Gauge Information

Dicks Creek
1- First WMA Gate to Old Waters Creek Campground V
low
79
10/13 11:00
[detail]

Min Sug. Level:  2000 cfs

River Description

The Falls stretch of Dicks Creek is a little under a mile of some roadside park & huck gnarr. You can see it all from the road. Rather than staying on the water for the 1.5 miles of flat water to the old campground, most folks take out and walk the nearby road back up to run again.

Park anywhere near the first gate (open except from January 1 to about March 15) on Dick's Creek Road, but don't block the road. Restrooms are available on a side road jus off Dick's Creek Road on the nonriver side.

The well-known Waters Creek Campground is now closed: USFS has turned it into a day use area. Parking on the river side of the road is gone, but parking is available down the short dirt road across Dick's Creek Road from the old campground.

Starts with a gnarly manky drop full of undercuts on all sides with a nasty undercut rock and a few nasty potholes tossed in marks the top of this stretch. Its also got a log stuffed in the center.

This is followed by a big slide in the bend in the road.

Then the big, 20-something foot vertical falls. Watch out for the piton on the right side, and the undercut on the left.

Then another slide.

Then a slide, with another piton on the right and an undercut on the left.

Then another big slide, less steep, but with a big rodeo type hole in the middle, and a strainer where you would want to roll if you just flushed out of the hole.

All of these drops have fast moving flatwater between them. All of them are roadside. All can be portaged. None of them are particularly clean. After the last slide its about 1.5 miles of flatwater to the big slide above Waters Creek Campground, so we made that a separate run.

DIRECTIONS: From Turners Corner, take Highway 19 west just over a half mile and turn onto Dick's Creek Road. (Look for the "Mt. Pisgah Church" sign.) This reach begins at the ranger station or at the gate just uphill of it.

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Last Updated: 2006-02-18 14:40:39

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Dick's Creek Falls


Dick's Creek Falls  Dick's Creek GA
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Left Side of Falls


Left Side of Falls  Dick's Creek ga
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Cross view of the falls


Cross view of the falls  Dick's Creek ga
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Drops above falls


Drops above falls  Dick's Creek ga
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Undercut Rock


Undercut Rock  Dick's Creek ga
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Last slide after Falls


Last slide after Falls  Dick's Creek Ga
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First slide after falls


First slide after falls  Dick's Creek GA
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Ranger Station Rapid


Ranger Station Rapid  Dicks Creek GA
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First Drop


First Drop  Dick's Creek GA
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Gauge

Gauge Description:

Visual: look for the Chestattee gauge to bounce over 2000 cfs. (New visual gauge at Turner's Corner hopefully coming soon.) Online gauge is many miled downstream on the Chestatee.<br><br>

CHESTATEE RIVER AT ST RT 52 NEAR DAHLONEGA, GA [ GA ]

Current Conditions

Stage Flow Updated
0.63 79 10/13 11:00

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Level Legend: Running Below Minimum Recommended Flow Above Maximum Recommended Flow Unknown
Descriptions of reaches with River Name in bold have been verified by a regional StreamTeam member.

State River Name/Section Class Level Rel. Level Updated
GA Blood Mountain Creek— to Dicks Creek III-V 79 cfs   low 10/13 11:00
GA Boggs Creek— USFS Campground to Turner's Corner II-III+ 79 cfs   low 10/13 11:00
GA Chestatee— 1 - Turners Corner to Town Creek Church Bridge (a/k/a Garnett Bridge) I-II 0.63 ft   low 10/13 11:00
GA Chestatee— 2 - Town Creek Church Bridge (a/k/a Garnett Bridge) to Copper Mine II-V 79.00 CFS   low 10/13 11:00
GA Chestatee— 3 - Copper Mine to Lumpkin County Park I-II(III) 79 cfs   low 10/13 11:00
GA Dicks Creek— 1- First WMA Gate to Old Waters Creek Campground V 79 cfs   low 10/13 11:00
GA Dicks Creek— 2- Old Waters Creek Campground to Turners Corner IV 79 cfs   low 10/13 11:00
GA Frogtown Creek— US 19/129 to US 19/129 at Turners Corner III-V(V+) 79 cfs   10/13 11:00
GA Tesnatee Creek— Town Creek Road to Copper Mine I-II(IV) 79 cfs   low 10/13 11:00
GA Yahoola Creek— 1. US 19 North of Dahlonega to US 19 I-IV 79.00   10/13 11:00
GA Yahoola Creek— 2. US 19 to Chestatee River I-II(III) 79 cfs   10/13 11:00

Station Description

AW Gauge ID:6467
USGS Station:02333500
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User Comments
2008-02-07 07:34:44 (249 days ago)
The run isn't nearly as manky as the description makes is sound Edit
2006-03-15 09:47:13 (943 days ago)
Rick BellowsDetails
Per USFS, the gate at the ranger station will be open for the season as of March 17.
2006-01-11 20:38:25 (1005 days ago)
Rick BellowsDetails
New Streamkeeper: Rick Bellows, chestateer@yahoo.com.
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Rapid Summary

Mile Rapid Name Class Features (Legend)
0.1First Rapid5.0Putin Portage Hazard Photo
0.1Bottom drop of first rapidIIIHazard Photo
0.33rd Rapid. The waterfall5.0Hazard Waterfall Photo
0.5Slide after the fallsIVPhoto

Rapid Descriptions

First Rapid (Class 5.0, Mile 0.1)

First Drop

First Drop
Photo by Chuck Neese

Both sides are undercut. Strainer still lodged in the middle. Pothole on the topleft that looks like it goes to the center of the earth. The rock in the bottom of the photo makes a diagnol undercut ledge. Just an Ugly rapid. Dangerous.

Bottom drop of first rapid (Class III, Mile 0.1)

Undercut Rock

Undercut Rock
Photo by Jim Osborne taken 4/03 @ Low

The slide on the right is a safe line to avoid an undercut sluice.

3rd Rapid. The waterfall (Class 5.0, Mile 0.3)

Photo#4428

A big 20 something foot tall waterfall. Non of the lines off it are all that clean.

Slide after the falls (Class IV, Mile 0.5)

First slide after falls

First slide after falls
Photo by Jim Osborne taken 4/03 @ Low

Big slide with a big hole at the base. Last seen there were some strainers in the pool backing up the hole.


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