Little Conemaugh (North)

**Description:**This section of the Little Conemaugh, especially dropping in at Lilly, needs pretty high flows.  The gauge is inacurate as well. It all depends where the rain falls.  Best bet is to shoot me an email to ask if Cassandra is passable, if so, you can drop in from Lilly down, or if the gauge is 2000cfs or greater, it is probably running.  You pass under a lot of original, ungraffitti'ed bridges, which makes for some awesome scenery.  It also is freshwater until a certain point where an AMD site called 'Mars' can be found on it.

Class II - III continuous creek from Lilly to Portage where it slows down to a float with some class I after 'Twin Lakes' in Jamestown on the way down towards Wilmore.  From Wilmore to South Fork it picks back up to class I with smaller II after another north branch which is class I and unmarked on AWW comes into it.

I would consider the area through Cassandra to be class III as it starts with a rapid, has some fishing dams to drop down and is a fast through the park all the way to where Ben's Creek meets it past Oil City. There is nothing big water about this, but it can be technical especially at higher flows, only reason its marked a class III.

It is pretty much continous class II from here on out but you must be aware of a natural beaver dam that has formed shortly after Hughes Borehole.  Make sure you take the river left channel when the river forks shortly after Hughes.  There are still bigger strainers in the river that can easily be avoided and mainly in areas where there is no gradient, but need chainsaw and a crew.  Most other trees have been cleared in 2015.

There are river access points to put in and take out  all along this section, the main ones in Jamestown, Portage, PA, rt. 160 in Wilmore, and Ehrnefeld before the south branch comes in  From Portage to South Fork this section is a very friendly class I with maybe one small class II rapid.

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