Ashtabula

Excellent 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