Tar

The Tar River is mostly a flat water run, with very little gradient. The only real rapid on the river would be the Falls dam, which is right beneath the bridge crossing at Battlepark. It's extremely unadvisable to run this. The base of the dam looks to recirculate, and the boulders to follow would make for a very bumpy ride.

At extremely high levels, over 7ft min on the gauge there is mild park and play just beyond the dam, and perhaps the dam could be run at levels over 9ft.

This is a great paddle, although not full of too much whitewater. The Tar River trail runs along 6 miles of this river with county parks at each end.

There is a put in at Sunset park off of Riverdrive, and there are alternate putins along the Tar River Trail.

Aside from portaging the dam, you can easily paddle this river down to Martin Luther King park and take out.

Watch out for strainers on this run under heavy rains.