This is a really beautiful and challenging reach close to Erie. Like many other Erie tribs, this creek is in an isolated shale gorge with cliffs usually on one side or the other and bald eagles. If the ledge at the putin looks a little boney, but doable then you should be fine. If it doesn't look boney then you are in for a fast exhilerating run! Warm-up rapids start right at the putin with fun Class II's for the first couple of miles. After this the run picks up with some more serious ledges and then a wide falls. The falls is about 5 feet high and drops into a common pool with the Gage Gulf (Belson Creek.) Both creeks almost parallel each other just before they both drop into the pool with waterfalls separated by a very thin shale wall. Immediatly downstream the creek becomes extremely narrow and surrounded by cliffs on both sides. Once leaving the pool there is no turning back and you are committed to running this Class V box canyon called The Flume of Doom!
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Clear Creek, N. Br. Conesus Creek Eighteenmile Creek
Eighteenmile Creek, S. Br. Ellicott Creek Genesee (Letchworth)
Honeoye Creek Keshequa Creek Little Chautauqua Creek
Murder Creek Niagara Oak Orchard Creek
Oatka Creek Rushford Lake Outlet Sugar Creek
Twentymile Creek
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Put in on the north bank of the creek on the downstream side of the Route 9 bridge.
Take out in Lake Erie or Route 5 at the Fish and Boat Commission parking area. If you want to surf waves on the lake it is only 100 or 200 yards from the parking lot.
This is a brand new gauge located on Walnut Creek, PA and is about 25 miles southwest of Twentymile Creek. It should be accurate most of the time except for localized thunderstorm activity. Generally, the headwaters of Twentymile get a little more rainfall and snowfall than Walnut. This is especially true during lake effect events. Many of the subtitles in the pictures use the levels from the Brandy Run gauge that used to be the linked to this reach.
Permits are not required for this reach.
42.204601 ,-79.702599
42.262402 ,-79.784599
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Scouting 1st day of spring
Scouting the thaw
Scouting
Flume of Doom in a playboat!
Flume of Doom tossing another one
Flume of Doom from the Top
Iron Bridge Falls
Snake Falls
Tunnel Falls
Typical Rapid
little falls
Enjoying a breather
A smaller hole in The Flume
White madness
The big one from above
Crux hole of The Flume of Doom
Heading into The Flume!
Junction at close-up
Big falls on sidestream
Beautiful sidestream falls
Small ledge near the put in
Twentymile Put In
map
Two Beautiful Streams
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