Willamina Creek

Just over 500 cfs was a nice flow for an after work run on the mile long section ending in Blackwell Park. There was a quick log portage below the Poultry Wave, just out of view of upstream from the bridge in Blackwell Park.

2026-02-11 Priscilla and I ran a short stretch from Willamina Creek Road bridge to Blackwell Park at a bit over 300 cfs. This was enough for an after work run, the nice green surf wave next to the bedrock wall/adjacent to the chicken farm was still in. The slide was low but still flowed. There was a large tree across the river just upstream and out of sight from Blackwell Park that we ducked on the left but would need to be portaged at some flows. The section upstream of the pavement/gravel change on the shuttle road looked very low, maybe runnable, but likely not worthwhile.

375 cfs or so was getting low, but wasn't too low. Could probably get down lower. The many surf waves that exist at medium flows were mostly gone, and I'd probably only do the upper 2 miles at this flow. There was one set of small waves that were still surfable. We took out at Blackwell Park.

11-01-25

We put on just behind a 600 cfs bubble, this was a good flow. We portaged one log in the first two miles. Lots of surf waves at this flow in the flatter section above Blackwell Park.