Duluth creeks, MN

Disclaimer

various

Class IV-V+
1 Miles
Avg Gradient 300 fpm
Max Gradient 570 fpm


River Description

OK, I'm 'cheating' a bit here, lumping a bunch of streams together in one description/page. It seemed a shame not to have mention of these creeks on this AW river inventory, but it also seemed near absurd to detail each separately, as they all fall into a category I like to call "stupid boater tricks" or "micro creeks".

Within the city limits of Duluth, there are a good number of creeks with incredible gradients and amazing slides and drops. To the best of my knowledge, most (if not every one) of these creeks have been run by area boaters.

The odds of any out-of-town (or at least out-of-immediate-area) boater catching them runnable would be quite slim. Hard-core boaters may watch for the few days (or few hours!) when they may be at 'runnable' levels, for an unbelievable 'in town' rush.

The following table hints at the variety and challenge available.
(Listing is from North to South through town.)
Name Suggested
Length
Gradient TopoZone
Tischer Creek 1.0 400 Map
Chester Creek 1.5 286 Map
Miller Creek 1.0 400 Map
Keene Creek 1.5 333 Map
Kingsbury Creek 0.7 570 Map

 

 

 

 

 

 


StreamTeam Status: unverified
Last Updated: 2007-07-06 09:14:28

Search Results

icon of message No photos found.

This topic does not exist yet

You’ve followed a link to a topic that doesn’t exist yet.

If permissions allow (as a AW Member, you may edit River Wiki, for example) you may create it by using the “Create This Page Button” below by hovering your mouse over the edit wrench.

If you don’t see a wrench, you don’t have permission to edit or edit is turned off.

If you don’t know what you are doing click on the sandbox and instructions link off the create page link.

Gauge Description:

No known gauges on most of these, they are runnable (only briefly) at ice-out and after heavy rains. All have quite small watersheds, and will generally 'flash' off rather quickly, going from too low, possibly to too high, and back to too low even within the course of a day or two!
WXPort

News




icon of message No guide books for this stream. If you know of a book that describes this stream please contact and advise the StreamTeam member for this run.

No Comments

Add a Comment

Rapid Descriptions

icon of message No rapids entered. If you know names, and locations of the rapids please contact and advise the StreamTeam member for this run.

AW Membership Status

Please join AW.

To enjoy extra features of this website please register by clicking here.No permissions.

Volunteer Opportunities / Activities

StreamTeam


Journal Archive Articles


 River Alert  
 State News  
 River Links  
 River Info (mobile)