Ashtabula
Green Hill Road to Hadlock Ford
| Difficulty | II |
| Length | 3.9 mi |
| Avg Gradient | 16 fpm |
| Gauge | Conneaut Creek at Conneaut Oh |
| Flow Rate as of 38 minutes | 250 cfsbelow recommended |
| Reach Info Last Updated | January 20, 2013 |
River Description
Directions, courtesy of the Lord of Baywatch:
Take I-90 East (from Cleveland and Akron) to State Rte. 11; go North.
Exit 11 at Seven Hills Road; turn right.
At stop sign, turn left and cross RR tracks. At Plymouth Ridge Rd. turn right;
in about 2 or three miles reach Greenhill Road, also called Township Rte. 20.
Turn right and immediately go down the hill to the river.
If you cross the river on Plymouth Ridge you have gone too far.
Shuttle: go back up Greenhill Rd. to Plymouth Ridge, cross it, and continue.
After a bend in the road to the right will be a road on your left. Turn here and follow this road to the takeout at the ford.
Alternate takeout, at Indian Trail Park (State Rd.), adds 3 Class I-II miles to the trip.
Alternate putin, on Benetka Rd., adds 3 miles (1.5 flat, 1.5 Class I) to the trip.
River Features
Put In
Take Out
Trip Reports
Log in to add a reportExcellent paddling when the water is flowing. Pay attention and don’t go over the dam or several falls all can be safely portaged around. We paddled from Benetka past the takeout all the way to the lift bridge in the Harbor 19.5 miles took 5 hours. Would not try trip this when the water is low.
Runnable flows are lower than 500CFS - I would say above 1.6ft on the Dewey Rd bridge gauge makes the run doable - which corresponds to approximately 1.8ft-2ft on the Conneaut Creek Gauge (approximately 300CFS)
One local paddler says the level was 12 - 13 ft on the Dewey Rd bridge that day. To our knowledge, that's the highest the river has ever been run. We only made it to Dewey Rd though instead of the Hadlock Ford after getting worked in a HUGE hole just above the covered bridge, then there wasn't much paying attention to the gauge reading at that time after being scared out of our wits!
First snow of 2004 - how beautiful!
Above 2' this is a pretty good rapid