Cedar Creek

My family canoed the lower 12 mile section of Cedar Creek on 4-23-06 starting at the low water bridge. There is a log jam blocking the channels around the large limestone rocks in midriver at the cool rock formations and waterfall/old mill, 2 miles downstream just above the Rt 628 bridge. After scouting it we found that we could land on the left end of the jam in the main channel drag our boats overtop and relaunch from a well placed log in swift current just downstream. We walked our dog around the left side. Alternatively, we could have, with great difficulty, dragged our canoes around the left side of the rocks. There was a sizeable eddy/landing spot on the left above the first rock. In other words you can get over or around it but this is no place for novices. No other obstructions were encounterred. The water level was perfect and the current was swift but the painted guage at the Rt 11 takeout appears to read too low as it read .25 ft when we set shuttle and 0 when we took out but there was plenty of water. The guage at the low water bridge putin was more accurate as it read 0.75 ft. The USGS hydrograph indicated the the guage near the takeout dropped from 3.4 to about 3.2 during our trip. I've done the run at levels as low as 2.8 but it gets a little scrapy with much slower current.