Eau Galle

Quick Facts:

Location: West-Central Wisconsin, between Menomonie and River Falls.

Character: Tiny watershed with shoals and minor rapids.

Shuttle Length/DriveTIme: 4.4 miles/12 minutes. (See details in 'Directions' Tab.)

Put-in elevation is approximately 920'.

Take-out elevation is approximately 878'.

Thus total elevation change is approximately 42'.

Drainage area at put-in    : 64 square miles

Information (latitude, longitude, elevations, total drop, run length, shuttle length) all obtained from best extrapolation of data via the distance measuring tool from google.com/maps, USGS StreamStats, and other online resources.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Other sources may show differing values. All values should be merely for general comparative purposes. Relatively minor differences (even discrepancies up to 10-20% and more!) generally mean very little in the grand scheme of all things whitewater! Far more important than gradient and class/rating should be other less-quantifiable 'character factors' such as continuous versus pool/drop, wide-open routes versus constricted technical rapids, wide-channel with multiple routes versus narrow channel with essentially one route, gradual river banks versus rocky shores or steep-walled gorges, et cetera.

Never rely solely on class/rating to decide if you should run a river/rapids!

General Overview

This river was named by the French explorers 'la Rivière au Galet', in English, 'river of the gravely/pebbly banks'. Wikipedia has a wonderful photo showing how scenic some of this river will be: Click Here.

Numerous random areas of shoals should create swiftwater and minor rapids at good flows. The problem is, good flows are likely to be very rare, in large part due to the flood-control dam just above

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