Provo

Put in: 40°33'28.7'N 111°10'09.9'W

Takeout: 40.601363, -111.329487

Mostly clean run, ran all the diversion dams except for the big one at 40°36'19.0'N 111°18'20.0'W

Lots of wood but everything was passable except a river wide strainer at 40°34'26.2'N 111°13'08.6'W. Easy to spot and there is a nice take out river left above it. This will likely get flushed out as the flows increase.

Fun section!

Two issues:

About a 1/3rd of the way down the Woodland section a series of new trenches and weirs divert most of the river from it's main channel into a wooded plain.  Not sure if any of the diversion channels actually go clean.  We kept river right the whole way but at lower flows this isn't likely to be an option.  They've effectively created a huge 1/4 mile strainer. Not good!

The big riverwide dam drop 2/3rds of the way down has been built up to create a new III - IV slide with a large hole at the bottom.  Worth a scout!

Otherwise a really nice run with only one portage.

Ran this in packrafts 5/30/22 from the highway 35 bridge at bullmoose road to the 1000 E bridge takeout, cfs ~730. Great run! A little rocky but very doable at this level. A riverwide tree to avoid about 1.5 miles downstream. No barbwire or other issues, though wood was plentiful required vigilant paddling skills to avoid. We parked before the bridge at the take out and got an angry note on our car from presumably a local landowner.

Scott sending the 2nd dam on the Woodland section of Provo River

2nd dam

Ran this section on 5/14/16 at 1000cfs. There is a river wide log around a very fast corner with no eddies about 2 miles downstream from the put in. We were lucky enough that it was pouring over just barely and creating a large drop so we just ran it. At flows less than 1000cfs, i would exercise great caution when doing this section below 1000cfs. Class 4 wood avoidance.