Mettawee
Truthville to Upper Turnpike(North Granville)
| Difficulty | I-V |
| Length | 9.7 mi |
| Avg Gradient | n/a |
| Gauge | Mettawee River Near Middle Granville Ny |
| Flow Rate as of 36 minutes | 4.26 ftrunnable |
| Reach Info Last Updated | April 8, 2016 |
River Description
Safety Warning: There is a dangerous sieve in the second drop. On April 11, 2004, a paddler got stuck in the sieve and drowned. It is not obvious if one scouts from the river-right side. Read the description in Boater Talk for more details. Photos of the sieve at low water are posted to the AW site. Scroll down to see them.
Kinda a smaller, creekier Bottom Moose. Big drops, with big recovery pools. Locals typically run a 2-3 mile section of Class III-V water. Put-in is upstream of Middleton Road Bridge (river right) and take-out is river left downstream of N. Granville near Upper Tpk Road. Call Sacandaga Outfitters for local experts.
Mettawee access issue
I got a call from the Forest Ranger who covers that area this morning asking for help getting this out to paddlers. The owners of the property on river left at the second drop, where Linda Weiss's accident was last year, are having trespass problems with 'kayakers'. After talking to the Ranger, I seriously doubt that paddlers are the problem (the spot is also popular with fishermen), and asked him to relay that back to the landowners.
Here's the deal, keep in mind that I'm getting this all second hand. Apparently, a few weeks ago, some friends of Linda's asked permission to go down to the river by the drop. The landowners were ok with that, under the impression that they would only be there a little while. They were there longer than the landowner's thought they would be and hung some flags (the flags were there when I paddled it last week). The landowners were still pretty much OK with that. Since then, they have put up new posted signs along the road and the access trail. Some of the signs have been torn down, people have parked in their driveway and by thier front lawn (the road is really narrow right there), and when they a
...River Features
Put In
Take Out
Trip Reports
Log in to add a report11/20/2021 - ~4.7' on the gauge - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZXmx5aEhW0 - First rapid in video is the first major drop, second rapid is the second major drop (with dangerous sieve on river left - See description/low water pics for more info). Third rapid in video is 'triple drop'. Last rapid in video is the final drop (beware of cave behind the curtain on river right) Everyone in party decided to run river left lines to avoid a potentially nasty hole/cave on right.
-Jordan
Ford Smith in Triple Drop on the Mettawee, 11/6/2010
Mettawee River's 'FIrst Drop' @ 4.1'
This is a river level pic of triple drop at a medium low level. You can't see the ugly hole at the bottom in this picture but know that if you are to go too far to the bottom left (river right) of this picture you will get eaten.
The second drop at minimum flow since it changed this spring. The vertical slab in the center of the drop has a slot about 5' long, 2 1/2' wide, and 8' deep just to the river left of it that drops out of sight into the rock pile. It's dry at this level. The smaller horizontal slab in the right side of the drop has about 90% of the flow going under it at this level. Both of these hazards are pretty well hidden at normal paddling levels. Pretty scary stuff. I won't even be sneaking this drop anymore!
A slightly different view showing the vertical slab a little better. The death slot is sort of visible to the river left of the slab.
A lousy picture from pretty much on top of the vertical slab, looking down into the death slot. The bright area in the left center of the photo is foam in the bottom of the slot. In the top left corner of the picture, you can sort of see the main flow backing up into a little pothole and disappearing under the horizontal slab.
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More of my photos can be found on my NEW kayakingphotos.com page and my American Whitewater page.
More of my photos can be found on my NEW kayakingphotos.com page and my American Whitewater page.
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sneak route on far river left on the last drop before the take out.
main drop on the slide
second drop on the run. a rocks splits the creek into two possible routes: the left being the easiest. The right route will push u sideways and there is a small chance u will land on a rock - so dont flip on the approach