Nesquehoning Creek

Don't skip out on this one. Runs during frost melt and other significant rainfall. We start at the river bend shortly above the route 93 bridge to keep it quick. Can also put-in at maple shade senior home in Nesquehoning, there's still a strainer or two to portage, and no significant rapids between there and 93. There is a parking spot for the 93 put- in just along the train tracks on Paradise road (by Whitewater Rafting Adventures). If it looks boat-able there, you'll have water.

Shortly after the tunnel under 93 there is a bony rapid. Tough at low flows, but it improves from this point. Currently 1 portage around a log, easy to spot and avoid. 1 questionable portage that you can sneak through, also easily spotted.

1 major rapid 'T-BONE' - 'The Big One at Nesquehoning's End' It begins shortly after a pipeline. Scoutable from river left when the pipeline is in view downstream. Starts with a decent sized hole/wave, then turns a sharp right at the bedrock bank, that has the potential to t-bone a kayak. T-bone rapid was named by a redneck in an under-inflated sevylor fishing raft. If he can do it, then you can too. It's a good intro to creeking for those of you who would like a step up from the Nescopeck, but aren't ready for class 4 creeks.

T-Bone as shot from rocky bank at end of rapid

May 18, 2018

Entering the second part of T-bone

April 25th 2018

First drop on T-bone, just below pipeline

April 25th 2018

Pretty standard Nesquehoning rapid. Near the treatment plant, upstream of anything class III. Not much to surf, but plenty to Boof on this run

May 18th 2018

A detailed description of this stream can be found in the 'Lehigh River Paddling Guide,' which can be purchased online at http://www.ggentile.com/nonfiction\_books.html. Scroll down to the appropriate title.

Ran on 6-19-09 starting WAY up from the Water Filtration site (about an 8 mile run). There were about 5 strainers you had to walk around but the gradient never lets up until about a half mile from the mouth. There were two Class III+ rapids below the last bridge that require scouting, the first a sharp drop (which I ran far left) and the second which bends a sharp right at the bottom (run just right of the center rock and work your way right to avoid slamming into the left rock). I'd rate the run a Class III+ overall because of the continuous nature of the rapids, the creek seems to drop faster than the 66 fpm that Ed Gertler's book states.

Not runnable unless flood