Brodhead Creek

Ran the Miracle mile and down to the gauge, plus the lower section from Stroudsburg to Delaware Water Gap on 5/21/11. The white farm house mentioned below is no longer there, but the put in for Miracle Mile is 1.1 miles north of the Alpine Mountain parking area or 4.6 miles below the intersection in Canadensis. The park in Delaware Water Gap doesn't offer easy access to the creek, but the gauge 1/4 mile upstream makes an easy take out. It's on the left side of the creek just after you pass the mill (on the right). Take a look when you drop off a car at the end of Post Office Road, just a bit north of the creek. Here's a Google map showing the sections of the creek and access locations: http://tinyurl.com/brodhead-creek
On 8/29/11, a day after the rains from Hurricane Irene, we ran from the Miracle Mile all the way down to the gauge at Minisink Hills (almost 16 miles). Discharge when we passed the Analomink gauge was 950 CFS, which is we considered a very nice level. If the stage to discharge correlation is accurate we had 11,000CFS when we reached the Minisink Hills gauge; it was big, but didn't feel that big. The first few miles after the gauge are pleasant enough and offer a couple of good rapids. After that we encountered some major strainers at a fork in the channel, where we found a narrow route starting on the right. Immediately after the channels rejoined there is a lowhead dam. There's a video on Youtube that shows some people running the dam, but it's at a very low flow. It had an extremely nasty recirculation when we were there. We portaged on the right, and thought that coming down the left channel could be an extremely poor choice at some levels because you may need to ferry across just above the dam. The rapid just below the dam was a lot of fun, but there's little else to recommend the stretch below Pinebrook Park until you get to the lower Brodhead, just south of I-80.