Cove Creek
to Green River(Bradley Falls)
| Difficulty | IV-V(V+) |
| Length | 3.7 mi |
| Avg Gradient | n/a |
| Reach Info Last Updated | May 8, 2025 |
River Description
From twistedpfister on boatertalk:
We paddled down to the falls and boat lowered with a rope. Below the falls is a short stretch which is LVM quality. Hard, congested with lumber, and steep as hell - the next 300 yards are 5+. Then its about a half mile which includes 8-10 IV-V drops (including a clean 35? footer). Then is flattens out a bit with the last half mile class 3.
The whole thing drops close to 800 feet for only about 1.4 miles. Big Bradley Falls (the BIG portage) of course eats up about 150 of those feet.
Im gonna do it again with more water/light. When we got to the Green, we had to paddle out with a headlamp ...
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River Features
Put In
Big Bradley Falls
Mandatory portage. Trail system on river right.
Son of Bradley Falls
Lots of broken ledges. Perhaps it could be ran...
Baby Bradley Falls
Appears to be a nice sliding waterfall about 30ft or so.
Take Out
Confluence with Green River
Trip Reports
Log in to add a reportLooks like some stout stuff. Put in below Big Bradley Falls (?) which is a mandantory portage. Several stout looking waterfall type rapids in there when I scouted it. Found a video online of a crew running it.
Some nice pictures of Big Bradley Falls can be found at
http://www.ncwaterfalls.com/big\_bradley1.htm
Also linked from that page are some shots of Little Bradley Falls, .5 mile upstream from the bigger one. I know of no other pics of the creek, however. Been looking.