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Savage Creek, TN

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Savage Gulf

5.7 Miles
Avg Gradient 130 fpm
Max Gradient 250 fpm

River Description

First off, the run is ILLEGAL.

More, from one of the local area boaters, From Boatertalk:

Date: Mar 12 2004, 22:32 GMT
From: clayw

Yeah, some folks 'ran' it. Portaged the falls, scraped down the class 3, then realized their mistake - They got sink-holed out, it got dark, they hiked into the park leaving shuttle drivers waiting downstream. Park intervened: "NO boating in Savage." It is a natural area and it will be hard to convince anyone you won't be stepping on plants!

They did say we could run Big Creek but similar problems - hike first.

If you must, only try when it's HIGH so you can boat after the first sink. Perhaps hike it first to know where the sinks are, and you've got a couple cool rapid and manky run-out to the old jeep road that connects to the hwy. When you run out of water, hike DOWNSTREAM - not into park unless your shuttle is waiting there :-)

Savage Falls is a sweet 27'er and worth hiking for (2 miles). Also illegal. You can be 100% enviro and still run it - trail crosses above and overlook below. Needs good water to be worthwhile; rumors of rocks in the pool but I haven't hit any.

Clay

Too bad it was too low when those guys 'ran' Savage.


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Last Updated: 2004-06-08 17:57:30